94 Domestic Notices. — England. 



After some of the seed had stood till it was sufficiently ripe, it was again 

 committed to the ground on the same bed, and a second crop was reaped 

 on the 27th of September last. (Fleming's Brit. Farm. Mag. Nov. 1826.) 



A second crop of Peas, from the seed of the first, has also been gathered 

 in the garden of Mr. Pitchal, at Gleaston, in Lower Furness. (Lane. Gaz.) 



Second Crop of Potatoes. The fly having destroyed the turnips sown on 

 2 A. 2 R. 24 P. of land, on the estate of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, Bart. 

 M. P. at Nannau, in the county of Merioneth, potatoes were planted on 

 the rows, 18 inches apart, on the 28th of June last, from which eight hun- 

 dred and fifty-eight bushels of fine potatoes were taken up in the last week. 

 (Sir B. W. V., Dec. 5th.) See also p. 68. 



Pinching off Potatoe Blossom*. We are sorry to observe that this prac- 

 tice is not generally adopted, as the produce would thereby be materially 

 increased. (Salis. Jour. Sept. 2.) A correspondent has found from ex- 

 perience, that the crop is not only increased, but much better in quality, and 

 wishes us to direct the attention of our readers to the practice, which we 

 hereby do, fully convinced of its importance. (See Encycs. of A.ty G- in 

 loco.) Cond. 



Large Crops of Mushrooms. So great has been the quantity of this " vo- 

 luptuous poison" brought for sale to Preston, for the last three or four 

 weeks, that immense quantities have been disposed of at threepence or 

 fourpence a peck, and the smallest kind for pickling at twopence per quart. 

 Cart loads have been purchased for the Manchester market, and, we dare 

 say, have proved a source of much profit to the speculators. (Preston Pilot.) 



Force of Vegetation in Mushrooms. Some men employed in Mr. Haskoll's 

 brewery, in the Isle of Wight, lately observed a large stone to rise consider- 

 ably at the interstices ; and upon removing the pavement to discover the 

 cause, found it to be occasioned by a large mushroom, the vegetative powers 

 of which had forced the stone from its proper station. (Salis. Jour. Sept. 2.) 



Mushrooms in Arable Land. Two men having potatoes in a field near 

 Belper, in Derbyshire, on proceeding to the field to get some, to their great 

 surprise found that a large number of fine mushrooms had sprung up in the 

 potatoe rows, and in a small space of ground they gathered at least five pecks. 

 The potatoes were planted in a little moss that came off" a building, with an 

 addition of some dung gathered off the roads. (Fleming's Brit. Farm. 

 Mag. Nov. 1826. jo. 121. 



A large Mushroom was gathered near Calverley ; it measured twenty- 

 seven inches in circumference, upon a stalk of two inches and a half in 

 diameter, and which together weighed twenty ounces. (Newsp.) 



Duchesse d' Angoulemc Pear. Some very fine specimens of this exquisite 

 fruit have been exhibited at the London Horticultural Society, and a very 

 fine one was sent us by Mr. Rogers, from his nursery at Southampton. 

 It measured eleven inches round, and weighed nearly 14oz.; the flavour 

 most superior. The singularity of this pear is, that while it is one of the 

 highest-flavoured sorts, it is also one of the largest. (See Part IV.) 



Extraordinary Pear Tree. " Old Baseford, Nov. 25th, 1826. Sir, Permit 

 me to lay before you an account of an extraordinary pear tree, the name 

 of which, in Gloucestershire, is the Brown Dominion. It is upwards of a 

 hundred years old, and stands on the premises of Mr. Richard Charlton, 

 of Old Baseford, in the county of Nottingham. The height of the tree is. 

 thirteen yards, and from extremity to extremity of the branches, is eighteen 

 yards, making a circumference of fifty-four yards. The trunk measures 

 six feet seven inches round. This tree for these last twenty years has not 

 produced less than from twenty to eighty pecks per year. In the year 1823 

 it bore 107 pecks of pears, each peck containing 420 pears ; and this present 

 year, 1826, it has produced 100 pecks, each peck containing 270 pears, and 

 each peck, when gathered, weighed 20 lb., making a total of a ton weight 



