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of wood, the others increased to my satisfaction, and have made good 

 plants. — Id. 



The Genista tinctoria, a low trailing native shrub, having something of 

 the appearance of the common broom, is said to be much used in Russia as 

 a cure for hydrophobia, and the Medico-Botanical Society of London are 

 resolved on encouraging trials to be made in this country. {Newsp.) 



The Red Spider and the Damp, the one as bad as the other, in melon 

 frames, may be kept under by covering the surface with clean gravel, about 

 three fourths of an inch deep. The roots find their way to the surface of 

 the mould, and form a matted texture under the gravel, where, being more 

 accessible to air, and yet kept moist, the plants grow so vigorously as to 

 overcome every enemy. The practice is common in this neighbourhood. 

 — James Stephens, gardener to George Cooke, Esq., Carr House, near Don- 

 caster. 



Chemical Relationship of Plants. — A writer in the Isis has undertaken 

 to prove that there exists a chemical relation between, 1st, the different 

 parts of a plant ; 2d, the different species of a genus ; and 3d, the different 

 genera of a tribe. In proof, he refers to certain experiments from which 

 tannin was found in every part of the oak, the narcotic principle in every 

 part of the Belladonna ; the prussic acid in the kernels of all the species of 

 the genus Prunus, and a yellow colouring more or less in the bark of the 

 roots of all the species of the genus Galium. This writer, Mr. Rudge, found 

 one common principle in semi-flosculous plants, and another in the Umbel- 

 liferas. Enquiries of this sort will tend materially to assist the study of 

 natural classification. 



Vital Principle of Seeds. — A small portion of the Royal Park of Bushy 

 was broken up some time ago, for the purpose of ornamental culture, when 

 immediately several flowers sprang up, of the kinds which are ordinarily 

 cultivated in gardens ; this led to an investigation, and it was ascertained 

 that this identical plot had been used as a garden not later than the time 

 of Oliver Cromwell, more than one hundred and fifty years before. (Mon. 

 Mag.) 



Apples and Nuts. — Six apples were last week plucked in an orchard, at 

 Caton Green, near this town, which weighed four pounds and a half, and 

 averaged twelve inches each, in circumference. We stated in a former paper, 

 that apples and potatoes were both of a price in Ulverston market, 6d. 

 the imperial peck; but on Thursday the 15th inst. apples were as low as 

 5c?. the peck, and nuts in the husk equally low. This is really without 

 parallel. (Lan. Gaz., Sept.) 



Nuts. — We have heard a great deal about the quantities of nuts, and the 

 number in a cluster, and sixteen, twenty, thirty, &c. &c, have been stated as 

 gathered ; but all these are outdone, and may be considered as common as 

 a cluster of two. A gentleman in Kendal has in his possession a cluster of 

 the common hazel nut, and which we saw, containing fifty-three perfectly 

 formed nuts. (Westmoreland Gaz., Sept.) 



Gardening, in the neighbourhood of Exmouth, is at its lowest ebb, and the 

 natives generally are half a century behind their fellow-men. The nearest 

 place worth mentioning is that of Lord Rolles at Bicton, and that is not 

 kept up with any degree of spirit. — M. Exmouth, March 10. 1827. 



A Turnip is now growing at Enville of the undermentioned size: breadth 

 across the leaves, four feet one inch ; circumference, two feet seven inches 

 and a half; from the crown of the turnip to the ground, nine inches. 

 (Shrewsb. Chron., Sept.) 



A Mushroom two feet eight inches in circumference, measuring ten inches 

 round the stem, and weighing 1 lb. 8 oz., was gathered, in the last week of 

 August, in a field at Mottram, in Longdendale. (Manchester Herald, Sept.) 



