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you allude to thinks proper, he can procure a cargo from Mr. Richard 

 Nell, who trades regularly with London, but who could not ship less than 

 a cargo, since bones cannot be conveniently put on board a vessel with any 

 other thing. I am not engaged practically in farming, but the farmers 

 hereabouts say that no manure returns such good crops and such good 

 profit as ground bones. 



" I am, Sir, &c. 



" R. P." 



We have lately been informed, that previously to the exportation of 

 these bones by the Dutch, they undergo a process by which their gluten is 

 extracted, and converted into carpenter's glue and portable soup-cakes. 

 If so, such bones, as manure, will not be much better than lime. It is rather 

 singular that the Dutch, who are so remarkably assiduous in collecting 

 other kinds of manure {Encyc. of Agr. § 4870 should not use the bones 

 themselves. 



A good way for gardeners to collect bones for vine-borders, or other pur- 

 poses, is to make it known in the neighbourhood that they will give so much 

 per hundred weight for all that is brought to them. As they are received 

 they should be broken by hammers into small or large pieces, as the effect 

 is intended to be immediate and powerful, or gradual and prolonged. For 

 distant effect a number of the bones should be buried whole, on the same 

 principle that opium-eaters envelope their pills in paper to retard dissolu- 

 tion in the stomach. 



The Yorkshire Horticultural Society held their May meeting at Bald- 

 win's Hotel, Kirkstall. The weather was beautiful, and the attendance 

 numerous and highly respectable. The exhibition of fruit, consisting of 

 pine-apples, grapes, peaches, and cherries, considering the early season of 

 the year, was fine, and there were also good specimens of potatoes, cauli- 

 flowers, and cucumbers, and a beautiful assemblage of tulips, wall-flowers, 

 auriculas, rich and varied exotics, and hardy bouquets, geraniums, &c. 

 The chairman, the Rev. J. A. Rhodes, congratulated the meeting on the 

 successful efforts of the Society in producing such a luxuriant display of 

 fruit and flowers at that early season of the year, and on the full and re- 

 spectable attendance on the occasion. The judges of the fruit and flowers 

 were Messrs. John Senior, James Craven, and John Gough. Numerous 

 prizes were awarded ; among others, 2 for grapes, 2 for cherries, 2 for auri- 

 culas, 10 for tulips, 1 for a pine-apple, 1 for peaches, and several for 

 potatoes, cauliflowers, cucumbers, &c. The exhibition was enriched by 

 specimens of flowers and fruits from the gardens of several ladies and gentle- 

 men in the neighbourhood. Mrs. Dealtry, of Lofthouse-hall, an honorary 

 member and patroness of the society, presented the meeting with some beau- 

 tiful specimens of wall-flowers, of delightful fragrance, and of rich colour; 

 also a dish of preserved apples, quite plump, and in good condition. This 

 lady communicated to the meeting, through the medium of the chairman, 

 her mode of preserving them, which was highly approved. Fine cucum- 

 bers, grapes, geraniums, exotic plants, &c. from the garden of the Rev. 

 J. A. Rhodes. Lasiopetalum quercifolium, Cactus grandiflorus, &c. Mr. 

 Barnes exhibited a drawing of grass-plots, or a plan for laying out pleasure- 

 grounds. Mr. Joseph Perry, artist to the London Horticultural Society, (?) 

 who intends taking up his residence in this part of the country, exhibited a 

 variety of highly-finished drawings of fruit, for which a prize was awarded. 

 — {Leed's Mercury, May 20.) 



We should feel much gratified by a communication from Mrs. Dealtry on 

 her mode of preserving apples j and also from Mr. Barnes, with his plans 

 for laying out pleasure-grounds. Our readers, we are sure, will second our 

 wishes on these subjects. 



The first exhibition of the Hereford Horticultural Society took place 



