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and' reasonably priced work on fruits. In the letter-press, the language 

 should be as plain as possible, to convey a correct description of the fruit ; 

 such words, therefore, as roundish, cordate, cucullate, auricled, &c, should 

 give place to English words, which are equally expressive. The plates and 

 letter-press should be numbered at bottom and not paged, like Poiteau and 

 Turpin's Duhamel, to enable purchasers to arrange the 'different classes of 

 fruits together. 



Sections of the fruit should be given ; for, frequently, the internal struc- 

 ture affords many discriminative marks, as the stones in apricots, peaches, 

 and nectarines, the cells and kernels in apples and pears, the seeds in grapes, 

 the flesh in cherries, &c. 



The plan in the Nouveau Duhamel seems to be very good. Take, for 

 instance, apples. Plate 1. contains, 1. The flower; 2. The petal separate; 

 3. Calyx, stamina, and pistil ; 4. Calyx and pistil, viewed singly ; 5. The 

 fruit cut horizontally, to show the cells ; 6. A small branch with leaves 

 and fruit ; 7. The entire fruit; 8. A kernel or seed separate; 9. A branch, 

 with flowers and leaves. Other plates follow, containing five or six varieties, 

 figured in each plate, according to their size, &c. — M. H. Nov. 20. 1827. 



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No. V. for November, contains 

 Original Communications. — Lord Althorp's improved Short-horned Cow 

 Io, with an engraving by T. Landseer. — The Origin of Moss, by W. 

 Ayton, Esq., of Hamilton ; showing that moss earth is " an immense col- 

 lection of the crops of aquatic vegetables, which have grown, in successive 

 generations, on the surface, in humid situations, and in a low temperature, 

 more or less in a state of putrefaction. Moss earth is not found in warm 

 climates. Cold and moisture, to a certain extent, are the parents of moss 

 plants, and these form moss earth ; and the depth of the strata is always in 

 proportion to the degree of humidity in a cold climate." — On the present 

 State of some of the improved Breeds of Cattle in this Kingdom, by the 

 Reverend Henry Berry ; controversial. (See Gard. Mag., vol. ii. p. 456., 

 and vol.iii. p. 75.) — Cause and Cure of the Smut in Wheat, the Turnip" 

 Fly, Wire Worm, &c, by W. Farey; founded on Dr. Pew's experiments, 

 noticed Gard. Mag., vol. ii. p. 255, and recommending Dr. Pew's cure, 

 lime, " together with keeping the land in good farming condition." — Dis- 

 tresses of 1825, 1826, and 1827, by Mr. Simon Grey; in which the author 

 argues, contrary to most political economists, that money is a " mere mea- 

 sure, and not a regulator, of value and prices ; and, consequently, that the 

 alleged over-issues of British currency by the country bankers and others 

 formed no cause of the late distress." 



On Prize-fed Oxen ; in which the writer justifies cattle shows, &c. on 

 the general principle of inducing farmers to mix with the world, and thus 

 become acquainted with improvements which they never otherwise would 

 have heard of. — Steeped Barley as Horse P\>od, by Verus ; in which that 

 veteran agriculturist {Gard. Mag., vol. i. p. 259.) contends that barley is 

 not so nourishing as oats, and that, consequently, a greater bulk being 

 required, the saving is not so great as was alleged in a preceding paper on 

 the same subject. — On the Weed Self-heal, Prunella (or Brunella, from 

 the German die Braune, a disease in the jaws and throat, which this plant 

 is said to cure) vulgaris ; in which the frequent appearance of this weed 

 among clover is accounted for from the circumstances of both plants 

 ripening their seeds at the same time, and from both seeds resembling each 

 other ; that of clover, however, being kidney-shaped, and rather larger 

 than the seeds of self-heal. The seeds of the dodder, Cuscida europae'a ; 



