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at the Shire-Hall in that city on Tuesday, May 23d. On a table in 

 the room were a plate of remarkably fine strawberries, Wilmot's superb ; 



large and fine kidney potatoes from New Court (the Rev. Lilly), and 



a plate of mushrooms from Sir E. Stanhope's garden, at Longworth. 

 P. Jones, Esq , of Sugwas, sent four sorts of apples, in such excellent pre- 

 servation that some of them were nearly as fresh as when taken from the 

 tree. 



American Aloe. A superb specimen flowered in September last, in the 

 gard&ns of E. P, Bastard, Esq., M. P. at Kitley, Devonshire. The flower -stalk 

 was 20 feet high, and displayed upwards of 2000 flowers, arranged on 

 whorls of horizontal branches, so as to resemble an immense candelabra. 

 The plant is 110 years old, and is known to have been in the Kitley gar- 

 dens upwards of a century. 



Zoological Society. A prospectus has been issued, sanctioned by the 

 most respectable names, for the establishment of a society bearing the same 

 relation to zoology that horticulture does to botany. The objects are to 

 be the introduction of new varieties, breeds, and races of animals, for the 

 purpose of domestication, or for stocking our farm-yards, woods, plea- 

 sure-grounds, and wastes ; with the establishment of a general zoological 

 collection, consisting of prepared specimens in the different classes and 

 orders, so as to afford a correct view of the animal kingdom at large, in as 

 complete a series as may be practicable, and at the same time point out the 

 analogies between the animals already domesticated and those which are 

 similar in character, upon which the first experiments may be made. 



Cockles. Some naturalists have discovered, between Greta-bridge and 

 Darlington, a great number of cockles, of the species which live in salt 

 water, Cardium edule, living at the bottom of deep ditches in a peat moss. 

 This remarkable fact coincides with other recent observations, in proving 

 that a number of salt-water fish will also live in fresh water. It opens a 

 fine source of improvement to such as have pieces of water in their parks, 

 to attempt the introduction of new breeds there. Mr. Bakewell, in his 

 entertaining and instructive travels in the Tarentaise, has already sug- 

 gested the idea of naturalizing several species of foreign fish. 



Salt. From several experiments made by Mr. Bennet, and detailed at a 

 late meeting of the Bath and West of England Society, it appears that salt 

 is " not so valuable as a manure, as in making the corn ripen earlier than it 

 would otherwise do ;" that is, it is not a manure at all, but merely a stimu- 

 lant. 



Packing Seeds and Plants in Foreign Countries. In a pamphlet on this 

 subject, prepared byMr. Lindley for the use of the collectors for the Horti- 

 cultural Society, and dated 1825, the following information is given. 



1. Seeds. In cold countries dry them well, wrap them in dry brown 

 paper, and place them in a dry and airy part of the ship. In tropical coun- 

 tries keep the seed in the vessels or pods, and wrap them in dry paper ; 

 but clean seeds of berries, or eatable stone-fruits, from their pulp, and 

 wrap them in paper, unless they are oily or resinous. If this be the case, 

 pack them in clay. Seeds of the mango, of the guttiferae, magnoliaceae, 

 sterculiaceae, acorns, and walnuts, may be thus conveyed from hot coun- 

 tries much better than by any other mode ; or sow in boxes of earth. 

 " Seeds should never be allowed to cross the equator, because the extreme 

 humidity and heat of the equinoctial atmosphere universally proves very 

 destructive to their vegetative powers." 



2. Cuttings of Fruit Trees. In the Winter season stick the lower ends 

 into a potatoe, or lump of well-tempered moist clay; then pack in 

 moss, &c. 



3. Bulbous or Tuberous-rooted Plants. Dry them till all the moisture 

 in their outer coats is evaporated, and then treat them much in the 6ame 

 way as seeds. 



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