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200,000 trees, which are daily expected. A parcel of mulberry-seed is also 

 expected on board the Esther, and Mr. Foott has directions to give such 

 gentlemen as may wish for it a sufficient quantity for sowing ; the company 

 liberally intending to benefit the country at large, by the general introduc- 

 tion of the silk manufacture. — {Cork Constitution of April 1st.) 



Cultivation of the Grape. Towards the close of last year all the Irish 

 newspapers noticed the singular success which for five years has rewarded 

 the exertions of Mr. John Pendergast, in cultivating large crops of well 

 ripened grapes in the open air, without any artificial heat whatever, at 

 Innistionge. Mr. Pendergast is now so fully persuaded of the practica- 

 bility of producing abundant crops of this much esteemed fruit in warm 

 situations in the county of Kilkenny, trained over the surface of the 

 ground, by an improved system of culture, and the natural influence of the 

 sun alone, that he is propagating plants from these very prolific viues, to 

 stock a piece of ground containing about a quarter of an acre, which he 

 means to train in the continental style. Judging from what he has already 

 experienced, of these vines being capable of doing in the open air, he 

 calculates that this quarter of an acre, so planted, will leave hkn a very 

 considerable sum in three years, besides paying ground rent, and every 

 other expence. — (Dublin Evening Post.) 



Lectures on Botany at Belfast. Doctor Drummond is now delivering, 

 at the Belfast Academical Institution a course of lectures on such wild 

 garden plants as may be found in flower, in the neighbourhood of Belfast; 

 in which he explains their botanical characters, their history and uses, and 

 the general principles of Linnaean botany. The above-mentioned course is 

 attended principally by ladies, of whom between forty and fifty attend 

 regularly and zealously. At the solicitation of a number of young men 

 whose avocations in business prevent their attendance on a mid-day class, 

 Dr. Drummond has a morning class on the same days at eight o'clock, 

 which is attended by twenty members, a number perhaps as great as could 

 reasonably be expected, considering that this is the second course of 

 botany ever given in Belfast ; that there is no botanic garden ; and that a 

 taste for the science has been little cultivated or encouraged. 



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Hort. Soc. April 4. Communications were read on propagating roses ; 

 on growing the pine-apple without the aid of bottom-heat ; and one by Mr. 

 A. Stewart, gardener at Valleyfield, accompanied with a drawing, (fig. 61.) 

 on a neat method of training espalier trees. The articles exhibited were 



some varieties of the Camellia japonica, and the double yellow rosa 

 Banksise, with small bright yellow flowers, from the garden of the Society ; 

 eighty-four sorts of apples, in good preservation, from Mr. Ronalds, of 

 Brentford ; some Colmar and Bonchretien pears ; tart rhubarb ; a double- 



