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PAKT III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Foreign Notices. 

 FRANCE. 



Planting Steep Declivities.- — The Society of " Encouragement" of Paris 

 have offered two prizes, to be awarded in the year 1830, for those who 

 shall have planted the greatest extent of surface, having not less than 45° 

 of inclination. The trees must have been fixed, either by sowing or plant- 

 ing, at least five years. The idea of giving such a prize is said to have 

 originated from a work by M. Dugied, entitled Projdt de hoisement des 

 Basses-Alpes. The first prize is 3000, and the second 500 francs. {Bui. Un.) 



Dung without Straw. — A writer in the Journal des Connaissances usuelles 

 says he has adopted a system of culture, by which the whole of the straw 

 produced is eaten by cattle, and no other litter is used but dry sand. The 

 same thing, we believe, has been practised in some parts of Norfolk. 



Magnolia Soulangesxia. — In consequence of our having expressed an 

 opinion (Vol. III. p. 445.) that this variety would not be permanent, M. 

 Soulange-Bodin has sent us a plant with a flower bud that we may 

 prove ft. We have planted it, and it has produced a superb purple 

 and white flower. We shall farther report on it after a year or two ; in 

 the mean time we thank M. Soulange-Bodin for having used so pleasant 

 an argument to convince us of our error in supposing it fugacious. 



Sugar from the Beet Root. — An establishment is now forming, in the 

 neighbourhood of Paris, for the manufacture of this sugar on a very exten- 

 sive scale. A British gentleman is said to have offered a house called the 

 Chateau d'Ormes, and an immense territory for the culture of the beet. 

 More than sixty establishments are, or soon will be, in activity in all parts 

 of France for this manufacture ; and we believe, from calculations recently 

 made, that the sugar from the beet root, by means of the ameliorations 

 lately introduced in the processes of baking and crystallisation by various 

 manufacturers, particularly by M. Crespel d' Arras, may before long enter 

 into competition even with the sugar of the Indies. {Jour, de la Belgique, 

 Fev.) 



GERMANY. 



Introduction of Botanic Names into general Language. — The Prince 

 Ypsilanti died at Vienna on the 1st of February last. His remains were 

 removed to the Greek chapel, dressed in the Polish costume, with the 

 Russian orders upon his breast, and a garland of roses and athanasia. {Ga- 

 zette de France, Feb. 13.) — The Athanasia annua is one of the everlastings 

 from Barbary, and has been a common garden annual in England for up- 

 wards of half a century, but we have never before seen its systematic name 

 introduced into a newspaper paragraph. 



Vienna, March 3. — The imperial gardens here have undergone great 

 alterations since M. Bredemayer was made director in the room of M. 



