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ceeding crops of clover, are taken : after which, the ground, being again 

 trenched, is found to contain a number of liquorice roots ; the plant, as it 

 has been elsewhere noticed, being difficult to eradicate when the soil and 

 climate are suitable. {German Gart. Mag. Old Series, 1824.) 



Anise (Pimpinella Jnisum) is much cultivated in the neighbourhood of 

 Thoulouse. It is sown in spring, when all danger from frost is over, on light 

 soil, hoed and wed once or twice, gathered in August, and immediately 

 threshed. The seeds, it is well known, are crushed like those of the poppy, 

 rape, &c. for oil, and distilled for flavouring spirituous liquors. {Bui. Un.) 



Insalubrity of the neighbourhood of dunghills. — A writer in a French 

 agricultural journal points out, with great force, the injury done to the 

 atmosphere, as far as respects the breathing of animals, by the decay of 

 animal and vegetable matter in dunghills, ditches, ponds, wells, and espe- 

 cially in sewers, and the cess-pools of water-closets. Wherever health is an 

 object, he recommends neutralising the mephitic exhalations which arise 

 from these places, by daily strewing over them, from a dredgebox, powder 

 of lime, of which a very small quantity is said to have the desired effect. 

 Though there is nothing new in this, yet it affords important hints for those 

 who are employed to arrange the detail of dwelling-houses, and out-of-door 

 offices ; and also to those who live in confined situations. 



Colchicum. — In the British newspapers a case was lately related, in 

 which the bulbs having been eaten by a family, boiled along with potatoes, 

 proved poisonous; and a French veterinary journal relates the case of twelve 

 cows, which had been fed with the leaves and seed-vessels, and soon after 

 showed the most alarming symptoms. By the use of strong decoctions of 

 linseed, they were recovered after two or three days. (Bui. Un.) 



The cantharides fly (Lytta vesicatoria of Gmelin), a coleopterous insect 

 used in the Materia Medica in the preparation of blisters, is generally 

 collected from the olive-trees in Sicily and the south of Spain ; but a 

 French writer, observing that the insect is indigenous in France, proposes 

 to introduce it to the rural economy of his country. (Bui. Un.) 



GERMANY. 



The Flanders Agriculture is duly appreciated by M. Von Schwerz, the 

 Director of the Agricultural Institution at Hohenheim, in Wurtemberg, 

 who is using every effort to introduce it to his country. Every year a 

 certain number of his pupils are sent to travel, and work three years, on as 

 many farms, in different places of Holland and the Netherlands. (Bui. Un.) 



Forest Management. — In the third volume of the Sylvan, a work pub- 

 lished annually at Leipzic, on the subject of Forests and the Chase, a list is 

 given of the books on this subject, published in Germany during the years 

 1824 and 1825. They amount to 44 different works, and show, by the 

 seemingly unimportant parts of the subject (for instance, Messkunst der 

 Forstw.) which are treated in separate works, the great attention paid to 

 the subject of forests in Germany, as well as the national talent of book- 

 making. 



Mouldiness in the timber of a house, it is found, may be prevented by 

 washing it over with a weak solution of muriate of mercury. The repair 

 of a church at Potsdam, the timber of which, though quite new, was covered 

 with mould, gave rise to the discovery. (Bui. Un.) 



Prussian Gardening Society, Berlin, March 11. 1827. — The following 

 speech of Mr. Ludoff, counsellor of finances, has been communicated to us 

 by Mr. Otto, the general secretary : — 



" Having been deputed by the Society to inspect the school of gardeners, 

 the management of which is committed to your care, 1 consider it my duty 

 to give you a general sketch of its present state ; especially as to the results 



