Medical Botany. — Penological Magazine. 35 



Medical Botany, &Co By John Stevenson, M.D., and James Morss 

 Churchill, Esq., Surgeon. In 8vo Numbers, monthly. 5s. 6d. 

 Ho. XV. for March, contains 

 Tunica Granatum, the Pomegranate, the juice of the fruit of which is 

 astringent, and of the bark still more so. — Jrtemis?a absinthium. Common 

 Wormwood ; extensively cultivated for medical use, as a stomachic. — 

 Artemisia ^Santonica, Jbrotanum, and maritimum ; sometimes used like the 

 first species. — Carum Cdrui, Caraway. An umbelliferous perennial of the 

 north of Europe, much cultivated in Essex, especially at Mersea Island, 

 for the seeds, which yield an essential oil, stimulant and carminative, and 

 often used to cover the taste of other medicines. — Convolvulus (Scam- 

 monia, A native of Turkey, Persia, and Cochin-China, and the roots em- 

 ployed as a drastic purgative since the days of Hippocrates. It is chiefly 

 imported from Aleppo and Smyrna. 



The Pomological Magazine. In 8vo Numbers, monthly. 5s. coloured ; 



5s. 6d. plain. 



]^o. V.for March, contains 



17. The Red Ingestrie Apple. This and the Yellow Ingestrie were raised 

 from two seeds taken from the same cell of an orange pippin, by Mr. 

 Knight, about 1800. It is an excellent table apple, ripens in October, bears 

 abundantly either as a dwarf or standard, but is not very good after having 

 been gathered a few weeks. 



18. The Common Muscadine Grape. One of the commonest and oldest 

 of our grapes, and, for the purposes of the English wine-maker, better 

 adapted than any other white variety. In most seasons it ripens in the 

 open air, generally about the middle of September; and the bunches will 

 hang on the vine, if the season be favourable, to the beginning or middle of 

 November. The Chasselas de Fontainebleau differs from the common Mus- 

 cadine in having the under surface of the leaves downy. 



1 9. The Beurre Diel Pear. Raised by Dr. van Mons at Louvaine, and 

 by him named in honour of Dr. A. F. A. Diel, one of the most distinguished 

 of the German pomologists. " Its great merit, independently of its ex- 

 cellence, is its fertility, both when trained on a wall and as a standard. 

 Ripens in the end of November, and keeps till the beginning of January, 

 The tree is a free grower, and attains a considerable size, and its fruit is of 

 the first rank among dessert pears." 



20. Black Boseberry Straivberry. Singular in appearance, and peculiar 

 in its character and flavour ; a tolerable bearer, ripening about the middle 

 of the season of the Scarlets, to which class it belongs. Any good garden 

 soil, well exposed to the sun. 



Flemings British Farmer's Magazine, exclusively devoted to Agriculture 

 and- Rural Affairs. In 8vo Numbers, quarterly. 45. 

 No. VI. for February, contains 

 1. Original Communications. — Smithfield Cattle Show; which, it is 

 hoped, will improve under the auspices of Lord Althorp. — The present 

 State of Agriculture in Ireland ; absenteeism, sub-squires, or squireens, and 

 the underletting system, the great obstacles to improvement. — On Smut in 

 Grain, by John Lawson, jun., of Elgin; in which, as a preventive, it is 

 recommended not to bury the seed at from two and a half to three or more 

 inches below the surface of the ground, as is generally done, but to deposit 

 it equally and within half an inch of the surface. The theory of Mr. 

 Lawson is, that smut is produced by over-luxuriance ; and, as grain de- 

 posited at the depth of three inches has two sets of roots, one from the 

 grain below, and another from the joints of the stem on the surface, it 

 must, he says, grow much more luxuriantly than grain which, being depo- 



D 2 



