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gary, Bohemia, and Germany, this practice has been known from time im- 

 memorial ; ^t was kept a long time a secret, because the flour so obtained 

 was very mach sought after, and always brought a much higher price than 

 the best flour from ripe corn. 



Dr. Mawz, who has cultivated the tobacco for many years, sows it in small 

 pots in the autumn, preserves it through the winter in a frame, or others 

 wise protected from the frost, and transplants in the fields in March. By 

 this practice he finds the plants attain to a much greater size than when 

 sown on heat in the spring, and afterwards transplanted. On this we may 

 observe, that most, if not all annual plants will attain to a much greater size 

 than we usually see them, when so treated. The common purple candy- 

 tuft, (Mr. Charles Rauch informs us,) under similar management, grows from 

 three to four feet high in the gardens about Vienna. Every one must have 

 observed how much stronger garden annuals self-sown in autumn are, than 

 those which are sown in the spring; the same of winter and spring weeds, 

 and of winter and spring wheat. 

 Franque, Dr. Die Lehre von dem Korperbau, &c. Theory of the Structure 



of the Body, of the Diseases, and of the General Treatment of Domestic 



Animals. Wiesbaden, 8vo. 1 thlr. 



Schuster, J. Sf M. Haberle, Professors in the University of Hungary : De 

 Stipse Noxa. On the Accidents to which Sheep are liable from the Seeds 

 of Stipa or Feather-grass. Pesth, 12mo. 



This is a very curious pamphlet. It appears that Stipa pennata and 

 capitata are very common in certain pastures in Hungary, near the village 

 of Berczel ; that the seeds which are furnished with a pappus, are carried 

 about with the wind, and falling upon different objects, stick there, as 

 seeds similarly furnished do, by means of the sharp point of the seed ; that 

 they fall upon the backs of the sheep, and by the hygrometrical action of 

 the pappus, and the motion of the sheep, are impelled mechanically (Enc. of 

 Gard. § 831.) through the wool, penetrate the skin, pass through the flesh 

 to the intestines, and they have even been found in the liver. The morbid 

 effects of this process is the disease called by these professors stipae noxa. 

 It commences with an inflammation of the skin, then follow want of ap- 

 petite, fever, want of sleep, great restlessness, and finally death, at least 

 where the seeds of the stipa have penetrated any of the vital organs. 



Holland and the Netherlands. 



Schuurman Stekhoven, H., Curator of the Botanic Garden, Leyden : Kruid- 

 kundig Kunstwoordenbock. Dictionary of Botanical Terms. Leyden, 

 8vo. 



Michel, P. Agrostologie Belgique, ou Herbier des Graminees, des Cyperacees, 

 et des Joncees, qui croissent en Belgique. Brussels, 1st and 2d centuries. 

 2 vol. fo. 



Dried Specimens of grasses not arranged in any order whatever. 

 Russia and Poland. 



Parlof, M. Zemliedeltcheskaia Chimia. Agricultural Chemistry, includ- 

 ing a general Treatise on Agriculture and Rural Economy. Moscow, 8vo. 



Tsorne, M., Lieutenant-General of Infantry : Tegene'delnik dlia okhotnikof 

 do Lochadei'. Weekly Magazine for the Use of Amateurs of Horses. 

 Moscow, 12 vol. 8vo. 95 pi. 90 roubles. 



This work may be described as a complete body of information on the 

 subject of horses, partly original, but principally translated from the Ger- 

 man of Tenneker of Dresden. 



