84 Foreign Notices. — Germany. 



respected and honoured by many societies, wno were proud to enrol his 

 name among their honorary members ; and " en fin" says the French 

 writer, from whom we translate this, " Louis XVIII., sur le rapport du 

 ministre de l'interieur, daigna deeorer le pasteur Oberlin de la croix de la 

 Legion d'Honneur." 



With a view to preserve the memory of this excellent citizen, who may 

 be compared to Charles Borromeo, it has been determined to establish in 

 Ban de la Roche a Fondation de Charite bearing his name. _ Subscriptions 

 for this purpose are received in some of the principal cities in France, and 

 in London by MM. Treuttel and Wiirtz, 30. Soho Square. 



Linnean Society of Paris. M. de Riviere, in the Annals of this Society, 

 proposes a new language of Botany, in which each organ shall be expressed 

 by a letter, and the number of organs by the place which the letter oc- 

 cupies in the word. This botanical notation he wishes the Society to pro- 

 mulgate, " and thus to do for the scientific world what the French 

 Academy has done for the literary." {Lit. Gaz.) 



Rutabaga, or Sivedish Turnip.' In the Memoires du Museum d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, An. 6. p. 226. M. Correa and M. Cels endeavour to determine 

 the difference between the Swedish turnip and the Lapland cabbage. Ac- 

 cording to them, the rutabaga is a variety of Brassica naspus, and the Lap- 

 land cabbage, or what we commonly call the turnip-rooted cabbage, of 

 B. oleracea. 



Oil as a Manure. M. Delcourt, an intelligent cultivator in the north of 

 France, has been in the habit of employing, for the last ten years, the oil 

 of rape seed (colza) as a manure. He either mixes it with horse droppings, 

 or those of the cow or sheep, or with vegetable ashes of any kind. In 

 either case, the oil uniting with the alkali forms a soluble soap which 

 can be taken up by the pores of the roots of plants. M. Delcourt uses 

 this manure chiefly in the cultivation of tobacco and colza ; and his crops 

 are the finest in that part of the country. — (Ann. de I'Agric. Franc. Nov. 

 1824.) 



Comparative Cultivation of Timber Trees. According to M. Loraine, a 

 writer in the Journal de 1' Agriculture du Nord, (February, 1824,) the profits 

 of planting different trees will be in the following order: l.Populus alba; 

 2. the elm; 5. the ash ; 4. Populus canadensis, and 5. the oak. The soil 

 and other circumstances are supposed to be the same for each tree. His 

 mode of estimating is as follows : An oak requires two hundred and fort}' 

 years to complete its growth, during which period the Populus alba will 

 have four times completed its growth. Supposing the mature oak worth 

 seven hundred francs, and the mature poplar worth one hundred francs, 

 this latter sum, laid out at five per cent, compound interest, adding the 

 produce of the three additional poplars, will, at the end of two hundred 

 and forty years, with all the accumulations of interest, amount to 58,500 

 francs, while the value of the oak is only 700. 



GERMANY. 



Garden of the Prussian Gardening Society, Berlin, July, 1826. Dear Sir, 

 I cannot leave Berlin without sending you "a few notices of what is going 

 on here. The topic that I think will be most interesting to you is the Prus- 

 sian Gardening Society. As you are a member, you have of course their 

 Transactions, and therefore I shall confine myself to their garden. I had 

 permission to go there whenever I liked, from the Director Otto, who was 

 remarkably civil to me, as indeed were all the directors of gardens on whom 

 I called both in Germany and Italy, whenever I shewed my passport. * * * 

 .*******• M. O. invited me to be present at the Society's meeting held 



