102 Domestic Notices. — Ireland. 



of these plants were presented to the Botanic Garden by the Countess of 

 Dalhousie, and both flowered in July. 



Pcrsoonia lanceolata. Polygala affinis. Pycnostachys coerulea. Ruellia 

 strepens. Spatalla bracteata. Stachys angustifolia. Thunbergia alata. 

 Thunbergia angulata. Valeriana alliarifolia. Yucca filamentosa. Zephy- 

 ranthes rosea. — (Jameson's Edin. Phil. Jour. p. 38 5,386.) 



. Gaultheria Shallon (Ericeag) has been raised perhaps for the first time in 

 Britain, in the Botanic Garden at Glasgow, from seeds gathered by Mr. 

 Douglas and Mr. Scouler on the banks of the Columbia river. Farther up 

 the country they found extensive tracts covered with the blue flowers of 

 Phalangium esculentum (Asphodeleae), which a good deal resembles the com- 

 mon field hyacinths, and is a favourite article of food with the natives of 

 Columbia. " In botanizing in this agreeable spot, they were charmed with 

 the little Calypso borealis, and the graceful Linnsea borealis, both of which 

 are well known to be equally common in the northern parts of the continent 

 of Europe." — (Brewster's Edin. Journ. Oct. 1826, p. 379.) 



Double Scotch Roses. — We have just seen the catalogue of Messrs. 

 Austin and M'Aslan, in whose nursery at Glasgow most of the best sorts 

 have been raised from seed, and where there is now the most complete col- 

 lection in Britain. It consists of 210 varieties; and what renders it par- 

 ticularly valuable to purchasers is, that after each name are the initial letters 

 of the colour of the flower, as B. blush, C. cream., D. dark, L. light, M. 

 marble, P. purple, R. red, S. striped, T. tinged, W. white, Y. yellow. We 

 are sure it would answer the purposes of the London nurserymen, if they 

 would take the same trouble with their lists; for the names of roses, with 

 very few exceptions, convey no sort of idea of their colours, and intending 

 purchasers are puzzled and disheartened so as not to purchase so freely as if 

 they knew what they were purchasing. 



IRELAND. 



Horticultural Society of Ireland, Jidy 6. Six prizes were given for florists' 

 flowers. At the annual exhibition of fruit ripened on open garden walls, 

 eight prizes were given away ; the first for peaches, to Mr. Wilkie, gardener 

 to W. Gregory, Esq. (Irish Farm. Jour.) 



Salt. " We know many Irish farmers who lately tried salt as a manure, 

 and the result of their experiment establishes the justice of English recom- 

 mendations on the subject. Sir Thomas Bernard recommends one bushel 

 to one acre, on the good authority of a gentleman who made a series of 

 experiments on salt as a manure, and held, that the proportion of a bushel 

 to one acre answered best, and the land was more productive." 



Farmers should not overlook this fact, that corn grown on land manured 

 by sea-weed, or grown on sea land, is peculiarly rich and luxuriant. Whence 

 arises this peculiar richness of growth, if not from the circumstance of the 

 land being impregnated with salt ? (Irish Farm, Jour.) 



Grapes on an open Wall. In addition to other proofs of the fine season 

 we have bad, there were gathered the first week of November, two baskets 

 of perfectly ripe and well-flavoured grapes, in large bunches, from an open, 

 unprotected wall, in the garden of A. Semple, Esq. at Malahide, in the 

 county of Dublin. (Irish Farm. Jour.) 



Potatoes. The editor of the Irish Farmer's Journal relates, in his paper 

 of Oct. 21., an experiment made in his own garden at Rathfarnham, near 

 Dublin, to ascertain the effect of artificial watering on the potatoe. Though 

 the water was not given in sufficient quantities, and apparently was poured 

 on the drill, instead of in the furrow between the drills, still the result was 

 in favour of watering. In the south of France and in Italy, about Avignon 

 and Florence, for example, the potatoe is grown in the fields in rows, and 



