326 Notices. — Denmark, Russia and Poland, 8?c. 



of Louvain, even to the humblest cottager, are remarkable for the culture 

 of their gardens. Many of them sow in Winter in pots and boxes, and 

 preserve in their chambers, peas, beans, kidney-beans, potatoes, &c. ; and 

 when the weather is sufficiently mild in Spring, they transplant them in 

 the open garden, carefully covering them every evening with straw, or 

 haulm of any kind, to protect them from accidental frosts. The conse- 

 quence is, crops in maturity nearly a month before those sown in the 

 open ground in the usual manner. — {Bull. Univ., Jan. 1826.) 



Employment of Lunatics in Agriculture. Brussels, Antwerp, and a 

 number of surrounding cities, instead of confining their lunatics in hos- 

 pitals, pension them out among the farmers, where all of them improve 

 in health, some of them make tolerable workmen, and a few recover en- 

 tirely. — {Jour. d'Agr. des Pays-Bas, Jan. 17, 1826.) 



Beurre'-Delbecq. This is a new Autumn pear, raised by M. Van Mons 

 from seed sown about thirteen years ago; it is named after the editor of a 

 public journal (Messag. des Sci. et Arts), ripens in Autumn, and is said 

 to be a very superior fruit. The tree is more lofty, and of a handsomer 

 form, than any other variety. — {Bull. Univ., March 1 826.1 



DENMARK. 



Populus nigra. There is a tree of this species in the south of Zealand, 

 near the school of Herlussholm, upwards of 100 feet high, and a trunk 22 

 in circumference. It is of great age, very majestic, and in full vigour, 

 without a decayed branch. — {Feldborg's Denmark.) 



Bones as Manure. The Royal Society of Sciences of Copenhagen, 

 have offered a prize of 100 crowns for the best essay on this subject, 

 which may be written in Latin, French, German, English, Swedish, or 

 Danish. 



RUSSIA AND POLAND. 



The Agricultural Society of Moscow, over which Prince Galitzin presides, 

 and to which the late Emperor Alexander gave a considerable grant of 

 land near Moscow for the purpose of establishing a farm, is going on very 

 prosperously. It has already collected in its school above eighty pupils 

 from various parts of Russia, even from Kamtschatka ; and the journal of 

 its proceedings has been so much in demand, that it has been found neces- 

 sary to reprint the volumes for the first two years. 



Horticulture in Kamtschatka. M. Fischer, of Gorinka, had sent a par- 

 ticular variety of potatoe to the commissary of the village of Milkowo, 

 which produced an extraordinary crop ; and several varieties of cabbage 

 and turnips, never seen there before, have been also cultivated with com- 

 plete success. Some of the inhabitants are not altogether reconciled to 

 the use of these novelties as articles of diet ; while others have disagreed 

 as to the parts of the plants to be used. It is somewhat singular that the 

 foliage of the potatoe should have been generally preferred, and that the 

 red cabbage should have scarcely been reckoned edible. — {St. Petersb. 

 Zeitschrift., Jul. 1825.) 



Warsaw. Land is so cheap in the neighbourhood of this city, that it 

 may be purchased for about 405. per English acre. The market is very 

 imperfectly supplied with even the commonest vegetables, and there is no 

 nurseryman. There is, however, a very large botanic garden nearly com- 

 pleted, of which we hope soon to be able to give a plan and description. 

 [J. L., Jan. 15.) 



NORTH AMERICA. 



Compressed Hay. Bramah's hydraulic press will reduce SOOlbs. of hay 

 to 12 cubic feet. In this state it will retain its qualities for an unknown 



