682 Domestic Notices : — Ireland. 



flower-garden made, and a good green-house erected in it; the whole 

 being enclosed with a very light, neat, and substantial iron railing. This 

 place commands a fine view of the German Ocean from the house, as also 

 of the coast of Angusshire, and the ruins of the cathedral of St. Andrew's. 

 I was four years gardener there; and some plants of Acacia armata, A. lon- 

 gifolia, and A. lophantha, which I planted in April, 1826, in two small con- 

 servatory plots in the green-house, were up to the ridge-board of the house, 

 which was glass all round, and 14^ ft. high in 1828, and completely covered 

 the whole with their fine yellow flowers, particularly A. armata and A. lon- 

 gifolia : they were between 3 and 4 ft. high when I had them from Dickson 

 and Co.'s nursery, Leith Walk. — James CruicJcshanks. North Benvick Lodge, 

 MayQ.\S3\. 



Lime-iuater for destroying Worms. — The use of lime-water for destroying 

 worms was lately discovered, in a garden near Edinburgh, by the ovei'flow- 

 ing of a brook strongly impregnated with alkali from the refuse lime of the 

 gas-works. Wherever the soil of the garden was reached by this water, 

 it threw up myriads of worms, which never returned again to their holes. — 

 (Scotsma?!, Oct. 5. 1831.) 



Large Onion. — An onion, weighing 1 lb. 5 oz. and measuring 16;^ in. in 

 circumference, was lately pulled by Mr. William Ramsay, market-gardener, 

 Chancelot, near Edinburgh. {Scotsman, Oct. 3. 1831.) 



Rhubarb. — The culture of tart rhubarb has increased so rapidly about 

 Edinburgh, that one grower for the market, who a few years ago found 

 great difficulty in selling forty or fifty dozens of bunches of stalks in a 

 morning, now sells from three to four hundred dozens of bunches. The 

 common price of tart rhubarb in the Edinburgh market is 2d. a bunch of a 

 dozen stalks, while in Glasgow the same quantity brings 3d. (^Scotsman, 

 May 14.) 



IRELAND. 



The Arboricultural Society beg leave to call attention to the following 

 statement : — They have reduced the annual subscription to one guinea, 

 and the life subscription to ten guineas, which they hope will not be con- 

 sidered too much to ask from any person at all interested in the improve- 

 ment of Ireland, for the support of even an experiment, which has been 

 honoured with so respectable a patronage ; but they can hardly call that 

 an experiment which has succeeded in other countries. Since the opening 

 of the office in March last, there has been abundant proof received of the 

 advantages which might be derived from the exertions of the Society, 

 should they be enabled to continue them. Surely no one will deny the 

 importance of affording to the cultivator of wood the same advantages 

 which the agriculturist has derived from the establishment of similar insti- 

 tutions ; enabling him to collect facts and the results of experiments, and 

 then deduce general principles, by which some degree of certainty may be 

 attained, as to the means of reaping the greatest profit from the smallest 

 outlay, and to diifiise, as widely as possible, the result of such scientific 

 enquiries. (Signed, C. W. Hamilton, Hon. Sec. 90. Abbey Street, Dublin.') 



Gentlemen's Seats in the County of Waterford. — The finest residence in 

 this county is Curraghmore, the beautiful seat of the Marquess of Waterford 

 (about 10 miles from the city) ; the demesne is of great extent, and not 

 surpassed, if equalled, by any in Ireland, in natural beauties and high keeping. 

 The gardens, which are also extensive (12 acres), are now being improved 

 and renovated by the very clever gardener, Mr. Alexander Johnstone. 



Moimt Congreve, the seat of John Congreve, Esq., is also well worth 

 noting. The house is finely situated on the river Suir ; the gardens are 

 respectable, and have a fine range of glass. 

 . In the west of the county, towards Lismore, are some fine places, par- 



