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pitchers. It gives off suckers, but not freely. (Professor Graham in Jam. 

 Jour., Sept. 1827.) 



The Mustard Tree of the Gospel, like the moss of Solomon, has given 

 rise to various conjectures. Linnaeus thought it was the Phytolacca asiatica ; 

 Captains Irby and Mangles, and Mr. Bankes, great travellers in Egypt and 

 Syria, found a plant which they thought was the mustard tree alluded to. 

 Mr. Don, however, has examined specimens of this tree brought home by 

 Mr. Bankes, and he finds it to be the Salvador^ peYsica, Lin. (Jam. Phil. 

 Jour., March, 1827, p. 508.) 



Mode of preserving Cabbages during the Winter. — When they have 

 arrived at full maturity pull them up with the roots, reverse their crowns, 

 and cover them up, by digging a trench on each side, and laying the earth 

 over them till nothing but the roots are seen above ground. In this situation 

 they will require much less ground, and the exposure of the earth of the 

 ridgelets thus formed will be an excellent winter fallow. Before burying 

 them, of course, all decayed leaves must be removed. In this way I have 

 secured my winter supply for several seasons, and one season most provi- 

 dentially against an inroad of cattle, which in a few nights destroyed the 

 whole winter stock of green vegetables, excepting a few dozen of the 

 cabbages trenched in as above described. — W.M. Argyleshire, Jan. 28. 

 1827. 



Mr. John Wallace, for some years past gardener to W. F. Riley, Esq., of 

 Forest Hill, near Windsor, where he has formed the gardens and pleasure- 

 grounds, has gone down to Murthly Castle, near Dunkeld, the seat of Sir 

 George Stewart, of Grandtully, Bart., to assist his father in remodelling the 

 gardens and grounds there. What we mention the circumstance for is to 

 notice the fact of Mr. Wallace being one of the fourth generation of that name 

 who have been successively gardeners to this family, Mr. John Wallace's 

 great grandfather having commenced his services nearly 160 years ago. He 

 planted the first larch trees in that part of Scotland, and was a journeyman 

 at the Duke of Atholl's when the larch was treated as a green-house plant. 



IRELAND. 



Emigration Committee. — In our review of Mr. Slaney's work on Rural 

 Expenditure, we offered some remarks on emigration, as a proposed plan 

 for relieving the country of its surplus inhabitants. It may therefore be 

 expected^ that we should consider the voluminous book which the Emigra- 

 tion Committee have put forth. This we shall do, but very briefly. 



The Committee, of course, think that their proposal to ship off" a certain 

 number of people is, at least, likely to be of service ; and some of the news- 

 papers lean to the same favourable notion of the plan ; others argue against 

 it ; a few laugh at it. We are, we must confess, surprised that this pro- 

 posal could have been put forth, or approved of, by any man of common 

 reflection or observation. Let us first suppose that a small number, three 

 or four hundred thousand, are shipped off, by way of experiment : what is 

 doubtful in the result must relate to Ireland, not|to the expatriated. How 

 long, then, are we to wait, till we know the result? How are we to judge 

 whether it is favourable or otherwise? Suppose we wait one year, and 

 judge of the result by ascertaining then whether Ireland is still as pressed 

 down with miserable people as it was before the shipment took place. Can 

 there be a doubt, that at the end of the year, there will be at least as many 

 inhabitants as before : we say at least, because, the demand for inhabitants 

 having increased, the supply will also increase. 



And this is the great point : to illustrate it more impressively and clearly, 

 let us suppose that the present population of Ireland is eight millions ; that 

 fifty years ago it was six millions, and that two millions could be shipped oft' 



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