212 Domestic Notices : — England. 



Of these one is 1 ft. long, has 8 rows, and weighs 10 oz. ; the other is 9 in. 

 long, 21 in. diameter, has 12 rows, and weighs 93. oz. 



American Seeds. — They have also sent us the following seeds : Ipomoe'a 

 nova, New Ipomoea, beautifully blue and white spotted; Ipomee'a quamo- 

 clit; Campanula americana ; Franklinia AUa772u/ia ; Eapatoriuvi coeleste; 

 Centaurea americana; Cardiospermum 7/alicdcabum ; ^uphorbza variega- 

 ta; ilfomordica L?(/a; Chamse'rops huniilis; beautiful orange gourd. 



We have sent the seeds to the Horticultural Society ; and any person 

 desirous of having a few grains of the Indian corn shall be welcome to them, 

 for the trouble of sending to Bayswater. — Cond. March 13. 1829. 



T/ie House of Assembly in Jamaica oiFered the following premiums on 

 Dec. 22. 1828 : — 



To the best regulated and most extensive establishment in the island, for 

 educating and giving employment to poor persons of free condition, 250/. 



To the person who shall raise and manufacture the largest quantity of 

 tobacco of good quality, not less than 5000 lbs. weight, 100/. 



To the person who shall raise and manufacture a substitute for hemp, 

 not less than one ton, equally cheap, strong, and durable, and applicable to 

 all the purposes to which hemp is now used, lOO/. 



For producing within the island the greatest quantity of cochineal, not 

 less than 50 lbs. weight, lOO/. 



For the best treatise on the management of the cochineal, and on the 

 growth and manufacture of indigo, each 50/. 



For the greatest quantity of good indigo produced within the island, not 

 ess than 500 lbs. weight, 100/. 



For the manufacture, within the island, of the best piece of cotton shirt- 

 ing or check, not less than fifty yards long, and one yard wide, from cotton 

 grown and spun in the island, 150/.; next best, lOO/. 



For converting the silk cotton to some useful article of manufacture, 100/. 



To whoever shall produce and ship to Great Britain in one year the 

 largest quantity of good and marketable wool, not less than 500 lbs. weight, 

 shorn from his own sheep in this country, lOO/. 



Samples and certificates to be produced to the House of Assembly during 

 the session of 1829 and 1830, Yours, &c. — X Y. March 9. 1829. 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



Heating Hot-houses with hot Water. — During the autumn, T have 

 been engaged in fitting up a small stove and green-house, which I have 

 heated with hot water, the simplicity of which beautiful process cannot be 

 better exemplified, than from my having been able to perfect the whole in 

 the most satisfactory manner, by the common artisans of this place, who, I 

 need not tell you, had never either seen or heard of such a process before. 

 The regularity of temperature is delightful, while consumption of fuel (of no 

 object here 'tis true) is a perfect bagatelle. Instead of tan I have heated 

 the entire bed of the stove with branch pipes of a small diameter, and 

 covered them with sand, and in order to obtain the moist heat of bark, I 

 have constructed small laterals, pierced like the rose of a watering-pot, 

 which, by means of stopcocks, I can, at pleasure, and if occasion requires, 

 flood the bed, cause steam to arise, and, in short, realise all the advantages 

 of fermenting material without its dirt and annoyance. I take credit to myself 

 for this little addendum to the system, and I am gratified to say it v/orks 

 delightfully. — J, T, A. Carmarthen, Dec. 24. 1828. 



