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never administered internally. Formerly they were used as a masticatory 

 for toothache, but they are too acrid to be recommended even for this 

 purpose. Externally applied, they are said to be efficacious in scabies, and 

 fungous ulcerations ; but their chief and most valuable virtue is that of 

 destroying pediculi in the head, when mixed and, used with hair-powder. 

 Delphine has not been employed as a medicine, nor are its effects on the 

 animal economy known." 



Z)aucus carbta, " the Wild Carrot, the seeds of which are aromatic, both 

 in taste and odour. Water digested on them becomes impregnated with 

 the latter quality, but it extracts but little of their taste. They yield a 

 yellowish essential oil, and give out all their virtues to spirit. The seeds 

 are carminative, and somewhat diuretic ; and, by Schroeder and others, have 

 been recommended for obstructed menses, flatulent colic, hiccough, dysen- 

 tery, chronic coughs, gravel, &c. Cullen found them of no efficacy in the 

 latter disease, and they appear to be of little use, excepting as correctors of 

 flatulency." 



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No. III. for January, contains 



9. The Catherine Peach. " An old and very valuable variety, ripening 

 in the end of September and beginning of October, and possessing far 

 greater merit than any other of our late Clingstone Peaches. When fully 



- matured, it is excellent and extremely beautiful ; but, to be eaten in perfec- 

 tion, it should have been gathered a few days. It is said to force well, 

 which is an important quality ; for, from want of solar heat in this climate, 

 all the Clingstone Peaches acquire their flavour most perfectly in a forcing- 

 house. It is an abundant bearer, and, according to Forsyth, well adapted 

 for tarts. The Incomparable Peach is nearly the same as the Catherine, 

 but is distinguished by its higher colour, both inside and outside, and by its 

 flavour being inferior. On account of its superior beauty, it is the more 

 cultivated of the two." 



10. The Borovitsky Apple. A middle-sized, 'roundish, and rather 

 angular fruit, from the Taurida gardens in St. Petersburg. " So few of the 

 early summer apples which are commonly cultivated possess any merit, that 

 it is very desirable to substitute some new kinds." The Borovitsky is pro- 

 posed as worthy of a second place to the Sugarloaf Pippin. 



11. The Hemskirke Apricot. A middle-sized, roundish fruit, very much 

 like a small Moorpark, of unknown origin. " It bears freely on an east 

 wall, where it ripens thoroughly by the end of July, acquiring a high luscious 

 flavour, superior even to that of the Moorpark. From the Royal Apricot, 

 (described p. 230. No. 2.) it differs in having a more tender flesh and 

 richer flavour, and also in the greater sweetness of its kernel. While excel- 

 lent varieties like this and a few others are to be obtained, one cannot avoid 

 being surprised at walls in small gardens being encumbered with such inferior 

 sorts as the Roman and the Brussels apricots." 



12. Crompton's (erroneously Compton's) Sheba Queen Gooseberry. 

 White, roundish oblong, ripens early, rich flavour, and a good bearer. 

 " One of the Lancashire show gooseberries, which are cultivated more on 

 account of their size as prize fruits, than for their merits in the dessert." 



No. IV. for February, contains 



13. The Roman Apricot, Abricot commun, Ft. " The most common 

 apricot that is cultivated, and with the exception, perhaps, of the Mascu- 

 line, the worst. It is not, therefore, its merit that has gained it a place in 

 this work ; but the being an old variety, which has acquired a station it does 

 not deserve, its only good quality being its productiveness." 



