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Leaves and Bark of Trees as Fodder for Cattle. — Near Seldun, the 

 leaves of the nut and the ehn are used in a particular manner. Gathered 

 when in their prime, they are ground into powder. In this state they are 

 given to swine, mixed with their customary drink, in the winter ; and our 

 author was assured that this food fattened them as well as barley-meal. In 

 the Oberland, the bark of the young oak, peeled off in the spring, dried and 

 ground, is found to be equally healthy and nutritive for all kinds of cattle. 

 We mention these things, because a knowledge of them may be useful in 

 the mountainous districts of our own countiy. {For. Rev, and Cont. Mis' 

 cc//., Jan. 1828, p. 209.) 



ITALY. 



A new Journal of Agiiculture has been published in Florence, which 

 reckoned, on the appearance of its second number, more than 600 sub- 

 scribers in Tuscany alone, a fact not only highly honourable to the editors, 

 but also to the country at large. On this subject it is not unappropriate to 

 remark, that the printing-presses of Florence have been doubled within the 

 last six years. {For. Quart. Rev., Feb.) 



DENMARK. 



The Royal Gardens of Rosenburgh are, without any exception, the first 

 in Denmark ; they are under the superintendence of P. Lindegaard, Esq., 

 court gardener, and no other place in this country can in any way come up 

 to them in cultivation and forcing. Every plant M. Lindegaard has under 

 his care looks remarkably well ; but what particularly attracted my atten- 

 tion and that of every other traveller were the vines, one instance of which 

 may be mentioned. In 1822, M. Lindegaard planted three plants in the front 

 of a large orangery, 1 60 ft. long ; they were two plants of Chasselas de Fon- 

 tainebleau, and one of the Parsley-leaved grape; all of them showed fruit the 

 first summer, which was the third year from the time they had been planted 

 as cuttings. In 1825, one plant had 14ilbs. weight of fruit, the second plant 

 14 lbs., and the third plant 10 lbs. In 1 825, "M. Lindegaard planted four 

 plants more. At present (1827) the whole front of the house above men- 

 tioned, except the windows, is covered with vines, consisting of five plants of 

 Chasselas de Fontainebleau (here named White Van der Lahn), one plant of 

 the Parsley-leaved, and one of the Blue Cluster (here named Early Leip- 

 ziger, and in France Madeleine hative). Each plant has upwards of a hun- 

 dred fine large bunches this year, which will be ripe in the course of October. 

 The wood for next year is as strong and thick as one's finger, and so is that 

 of every vine in this garden. The extensive walls are covered with grapes and 

 peaches ; most of the former will ripen this year without any glass covering 

 whatever, and the greater part of the latter are now nearly ripe. Fine 

 apricots have been gathered from the walls almost in bushels this year, and 

 there are several old vine stocks, upwards of a century old, which are still 

 in a flourishing state. M. Lindegaard cultivates sixteen sorts of grapes. In 

 the month of July I saw a bed of Keen's seedling strawberry here remark- 

 ably fine, covered with very large fruit, and equal to any thing I ever saw 

 in England. To get perfect young plants of strawberries the runners should 

 be laid out, when the fruit is gathered, on one side of the ridge; " loosen 

 the earth where they are to be laid, and add a little fresh mould to it; fasten 

 them down with carnation hooks, and supply them with water, and in a 

 couple of weeks you will have fine plants." M. Lindegaard cut a Grand 

 Mogul melon on the 30th of August, which weighed 18 lbs. Mushrooms 

 and sea-kale are not at all cultivated in this country, and I understand they 

 are not much liked. Rhubarb is only grown in the botanic garden among 

 the hardy plants, in order to complete the collection. The Coreopsis tinc- 

 toria is quite as plentiful here as in England. M. Lindegaard has got a 

 good stock of plants of Primula sinensis ; but the fine tribe of Camellias 

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