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ground for a crop. I am, Sir-, yours, &c. — D. French. Harlowe, April 26. 

 1830. 



Butter from the Milk of a Cow fed with Turnips. — Sir, At p. 368., I find 

 a statement upon the subject of the taste of butter from turnips. I have 

 found that this disagreeable taste may be prevented in two ways : the one, 

 by pouring boiling hot water into the bowls, to the quantity of, say, a pint, 

 simultaneously with the milk, after milking. I know this to be effective. 

 The other is, by dissolving an ounce of nitre in a pint of water ; and, accord- 

 ing to the size of the cream-pots or reserves, put in a quantity (say one fourth 

 of a pint) to the cream from three good cows in a week, but to be put into the 

 cream-pots, &c. before the cream. What the rationale of the action in either 

 case may be, I leave to the chemist I know that either (but, in preference, 

 the first) will effect the purpose. At the same time, I should say, that 

 although hot water may quicken the process of churning, when put into the 

 churn, it has a very detrimental effect on the quality of the butter : I think, 

 worse than the turnip. I am, Sir, &c. — J. Clarke, Dodworth, near Barns* 

 ley, June 3. 1830. 



Work on Cider-making ; in answer to A Subscriber, June 24. 1830. — 

 The best directions for making cider, we should suppose, may be found in 

 Lardner's Cyclojocedia,\o\.\. of Domestic Economy. There is also Crocker's 

 Art of Making Cider, 12mo, 1799 ; and excellent directions are contained in 

 Knight's Treatise on the Apple and Pear. On the whole, we think Lard* 

 ner's volume the most complete and scientific. — Cond. 



South American Clover. — A friend gave me some seeds last year, which 

 he called South American clover. I sowed them last spring : the plants 

 are now upwards of 4 ft. high, and will reach 10 ft. It is more like a 

 ■Medicago (lucern) than clover ; and the seeds have the exact smell of the 

 Anthoxanthum odoratum. I have not seen the flower : perhaps it is known 

 and cultivated by some of your readers. I am, Sir, yours, &c. — - W. S. 

 Buckingham, May 3 h 1830. 



Art. VII. Horticultural Society and Garden 



May 18. — Read. On the cultivation of Epiphytes of the Orchis tribe ; 

 by John Lindley, Esq. F.R.S. &c, Assist. Sec. Account of the Method of 

 obtaining very early crops of Green Peas ; by Thos. A. Knight, Esq. F.R.S. 

 &c;, President. 



Exhibited. A dish of forced Cherries, and a forced Cherry tree, from 

 Mr. B. Law of Northampton. A branch of Hawthorn, which, having been 

 cut from the root, in a hedge-row, had, nevertheless, continued to vegetate 

 for several years. It appeared to have been naturally inarched upon a 

 neighbouring plant. It was exhibited by Mr. Wallis, residing at Mrs. Be- 

 renger's, Streatham, Surrey. A bundle of Asparagus, consisting of 125 

 heads, weighing 28 lbs., from Mr. Wm. Robert Grayson. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Asparagus blanched in tubes, and 

 also grown in the common way; Scarlet Brazilian Pine-apple. Flowers of 

 iupinus polyphyllus, littoralis, tomentosus var., ornatus, and arbustus; 

 Collinsk grandiflora j ilfimulus moschatus, liiteus, luteus var. rivularis, and 

 guttatus ; Papaver nudicaule var. ; Rosa, Bknksice lutea and alba, Drum- 

 mond's Thornless Rose, Double Scotch Roses van, new Dutch Azaleas, 

 common Red Hawthorn, Crataegus Oxyacantha rosea superba; iE'sculus 

 flava, JE. Puyia, parviflora, and rosea ; Thermopsis fabacea, single yellow 

 Scotch Rose, Pentstemon Scouleri and glaucus, Psebma officinalis atro- 

 rubens, albicans, carnescens, and rubra, P. albiflora tatarica, uniflora, ery- 

 throstigma, carnescens, pauciflora, and tatarica (semidouble), P. paradoxa 

 fimbriata, Tellima grandifldra. 



