332 Notices. — South America. 



f, Avenue of peaches and pears alternately on one side, and peaches and 

 apricots alternately on the other. 



g, Avenue of pears and cherries on one side, and pears and plums on the 

 other. 



h, Oats. 



i, Fallow. 



k Border eleven feet wide, planted with espalier apple-trees, and cropped 

 with potatoes, parsnips, carrots, onions, lettuce, French-beans, and peas, to 

 be succeeded by melons ; the walk is six feet wide. 



/, East fence, with a thorn hedge inside. 



m, felons and cucumbers. 



n, Early maize, commonly called roasting-ears. 



o, Cabbage, and other plants of the brassica kind. 



p, Potatoes. 



q, Asparagus. 



r, Marrowfat peas. 



s Lima beans, a kind of kidney-bean, or probably a species of dolichos. 



t, Early potatoes. 



u, Early maize. 



v, Ochra (Hibiscus esculentus). 



w, Gooseberries and currants." 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



Culture of Tea in Brazil. Botanic gardens are established throughout 

 the country by government, who have directed the attention of cultivators 

 to Camellia bohea and viridis, of which one proprietor already has a plant- 

 ation of 4000 plants. (Asiat. Journ. for Nov. 1825.) 



Arracacha. In a report of the Horticultural Society of Jamaica, is a 

 description of this plant by Dr. Bancroft, who seems to think its root may 

 become nearly as important to Europe as the potatoe. It is about 40 years 

 since it was known in Europe that this vegetable was in general use in the 

 province of Santa Fe de Bogota, and the adjoining provinces of Brazil. The 

 plant was described in Sims's Annals of Botany, some years ago, (See 

 Encyc. of Gard. § 6036.) and in 1821 plants were sent to Jamacia, and in the 

 following year to the Horticultural Society of London, Kew, &c. Dr. Ban- 

 croft, in examining its botanical characters, found it nearly allied to apium 

 andligusticum; but so different as to be considered a new genus, which he 

 proposes should be called Arracacia, as being the nearest approach to the 

 name by which it has been known in its native country. The plants sent to 

 the Horticultural Society unfortunately died. 



Vegetable Glue. The Combretum guayca which grows in New Barcelona 

 produces a kind of glue called guayca. It resembles the best glue extracted 

 from the animal kingdom, and is used by the carpenters of Angostura for 

 all the purposes to which glue is applied in Europe. It is found perfectly 

 prepared between the bark and the alburnum, and an astonishing abund- 

 ance of it issues from the twining branches of the plant as soon as they are 

 cut. It probably resembles, in its chemical properties, bird-lime, which may 

 be called the glue of the berries of the misletoe and the inner bark of the 

 holly. {Humboldt's Travels.) 



ASIA. 



Apples marked with the impression of a leaf are sold in the bazars of 

 Persia. To produce this impression, a leaf of some flower or shrub is 

 glued or fastened with a thread on several parts of the fruit, while yet 

 growing ; the apple gradually ripens, and all that the sun reaches becomes 

 red ; the parts covered hy the leaves remaining of a pale green or yellow 

 oolour. (Newsp.) 



