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or two falls a stirring of the sand in the water, to make the water, together 

 with the sand, run the faster." {Aubrey's Surrey, vol. iv. p. 68.) 



In Pontey's Nursery, Plymouth, are the following plants, chiefly new, 

 introduced from Carthagena by Dr. Hamilton of Fareham : — El Tarangil 

 and Senilla. Aromatic plants, and believed to be species of Hjptis (Jiyptios, 

 resupinate ; corolla). — Albacca del Monte- Genus doubtful ; leaves fra- 

 grant and perennial ; green-house. — Albacca de Clavo. Genus doubtful ; 

 odour of the leaves most delightful ; green-house. — Meloncilo de Olor, 

 (pronounced Melonthito de Olor), Cucumis osmocarpon (osme, smell, Icar- 

 pos, fruit); dioecious? Annual, fruit small, highly scented; cultivated like 

 other melons, and, when cut down, like them producing a second crop ; 

 not unfit for the dessert, but chiefly used in America for scenting clothes. — 

 Arracacka, Arracacia zanthorrhjza (yellow-rooted). " A hardy annual, 

 which promises to answer in agriculture as well as the potato." — Mdta 

 rdton, Robinia sepium. A handsome shrub, not unlike Roblni« Pseud- 

 acacia. — Cavall6nga oriolla, Cerber« (Cerberus, a watch-dog of hell, whose 

 bite was poison ; fruit) Thevetea (a French monk, who described Guiana). 

 A handsome shrub, bearing fine, large, yellow, odoriferous flowers ; stove ; 

 introduced 1735. — Campanilla, Ipomce^a carnea. A splendid twiner, with 

 fine large leaves ; a stove annual ; introduced in 1799. — DimV/zw, Caesal- 

 pinirt! coriaria {coriariiis, a currier). A handsome little shrub, the pods of 

 which are used for tanning leather. (Vol. III. p. 212.) — Bejiico de Guaco, a 

 species of Mikank. A celebrated antidote for the bite of venomous serpents, 

 and good for the cure of rheumatism. — Guazumu zdmifolia, now Bubroma, 

 (bous, an ox, broma, food ; leaves and fruit are given to cattle in the West 

 Indies). Cultivated by Miller in 1739. — Bauhinia punctata, Hippocratea 

 scandens, and Coutarea speciosa. — W. Hamilton, M.D. Plymouth, Oct. 12. 



Doiigldsia nivalis, Primulacese, between Primula and yindrosace.^This 

 is a handsome little alpine, with brilliant purple flowers, which Mr. David 

 Douglas, the Horticultural Society's collector, discovered in the Rocky 

 Mountains in North America, in April 1827, in latitude 52° N., longitude 

 118° W., at an estimated elevation of 1200 ft. above the level of the sea. 

 It is described by Mr. Lindley in Brande's Journal for January, 1828, who 

 has named it after its indefatigable discoverer ; a distinction to which he is 

 richly entitled. 



The Vsidiimi Cattleyanum will stand, uninjured, a great deal of cold : one 

 stood in a house in this nursery last winter, where the thermometer was 

 frequently below 32°, and it ripened fruit in the beginning of October 

 last. — Henry Bains. York Nursei'y, Dec. 4. 1827. 



Bee-hives. — Mrs. M. Clifton, Mr. George Hubbard, and Mr. Thomas 

 Morris, the united authors of a paper on bees in GiWs Technological Repo- 

 sitory (vol. i.), recommend hives made of straw, c)'lindrical in plan, but, in- 

 stead of a straw top, a. flat board a full inch wider than the outside of the 

 hive, or about 17 in. The object of this board is, that one hive may stand 

 upon another; and thus you may make complete colonies of bees at a 

 small expense, for three hives make a complete colony. When hives are 

 made in this manner, they cost but 12,?., but in octagon boxes, in Dr. 

 Howison's manner {Encyc. of Gard., § 1744.), ]/. 10^. " I much prefer 

 straw hives, well made, to wooden ones, because the joints of the wood 

 often give way, by being exposed to the weather and the perspiration of 

 the bees, and the moth-fly (the greatest enemy they have) gets in and lays 

 her eggs in the comb, and the warmth of the bees hatches them to their 

 own destruction ; therefore, straw hives are preferable, as well as cheaper, 

 than wood. 



" My method of managing straw hives is this : -^ When I make use of 

 an old straw hive, I dip it into a copper of boiling water, so that if there 

 should be any moths' eggs, they must be destroyed; but I let the hive be 

 perfectly dry before I use it. 



