472 Domestic Notices. — Ireland. 



met with several of the original members, filling highly respectable situa- 

 tions, and who assured me that they looked back upon the summer of 1815 

 as one of the most profitable and pleasant periods of their lives. — . 

 G. W. Irvine. Dublin, March, 1827. 



Double Cropping. — A plot of ground, on which I had a crop of early 

 peas, happened to be manured with the litter and sweepings of my potato 

 cellar. After removing the haulm of the peas, I found the ground covered 

 with young plants of potatoes. I had the surface stirred up, the weeds re- 

 moved, and a shower of rain happening to come soon after, the plants grew 

 vigorously. In a fortnight they appeared to be too thick; I therefore took 

 up half of them, and planted them in rows, at the usual distance, on a piece 

 of fresh ground. Soon after this, both crops were earthed up ; the autumn 

 being mild, they grew till November, and about the 12th of that month I 

 dug them up, and found a very large crop of middle-sized potatoes. On 

 trying them, I found them not very meally, because they were not very 

 ripe ; but thinking that, according to the account of some of your cor- 

 respondents, they were all the better for seed, I laid them aside for that 

 purpose, and have no doubt they will answer well. I do not mean to recom- 

 mend, from this accidental circumstance, that peas and potatoes should be 

 sown together, but only that, when occasion requires it, any straggling 

 young potato plants that are found in a garden or field may be taken up 

 and transplanted with advantage. It is too common, at least in this part 

 of the country, to treat potato plants which have come up among other 

 crops as weeds; but I have proved that, whenever it is desirable, they may 

 be turned to profit. When wheat has been sown after potatoes, young 

 potato plants very often come up early in spring ; and, I am persuaded, 

 cottagers who have gardens might turn them to good account, by lifting 

 them at that season, and transplanting them into their gardens for an early 

 crop. The farmer, at the same time, would be benefited, because, relatively 

 to the wheat crop, they are weeds. But I merely throw out the hint for 

 others to improve on. Dear Sir, yours, truly, — Charles Sidey, bookseller. 

 Perth, Jan. 16. 1828. 



Edinbwgh Botanic Garden, Dec. 10. 1827. — Dr. Graham has communi- 

 cated to Jameson's Journal the following names of rare plants which have 

 flowered there during the preceding three months. Buddleia madagascarien- 

 sis, Cassia opaca, Leondtis wepetifolia, Lodsa patula, Polemonium Richard - 

 sonii, Salpiglossis atropurpurea, Ferbena barbata. 



IRELAND. 



Agricultural Model School . in the Province of Munster. — We are 

 glad to perceive, from a little tract that has been sent us, (Outlines of a 

 Plan for the Establishment of an Agricultural Model School in the Pro- 

 vince of Munster, as recommended by the Irish Relief Committee in Lon- 

 don of 1822, who appropriated Three Thousand Pounds of their remain- 

 ing Funds to aid in carrying this object into effect. Cork. Edwards and 

 Savage. Small 8vo, pp. SQ.) that attention is beginning to be paid to the use- 

 ful and scientific education of the agricultural classes. It appears that " the 

 London Relief Committee, in 1825, appropriated six thousand pounds of 

 their remaining funds to the establishment of two agricultural schools^ 

 one in the province of Munster, the other in the province of Connaught ; 

 and appointed resident committees in both provinces, to carry these, and 

 other plans tending to improvement, into effect. Will it be believed 

 that, after an interval of more than two years, no arrangements have been 

 made to apply to their intended purposes, either in the province of Mun- 

 ster or of Connaught, the three thousand pounds still at the call of each, 

 for the establishment of agricultural schools ? " (p. 5.) 



