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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Domestic Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



Labourers' Gardens, Warwickshire. — On Saturday, the 3d of Novem- 

 ber, 1832, the prizes offered by Sir Eardley Wilmot to the labourers renting 

 garden ground in Berkswell were awarded by him to the successful candi- 

 dates. The prizes were, the whole year's rent, the half-year's rent, and the 

 quarter-year's rent, for the three greatest quantities of wheat on one quarter 

 of an acre, and the three greatest quantities of potatoes on the other quarter 

 of an acre. The produce of the wheat in the three successful gardens 

 ■was, 11^ bush., lOJ bush., and 9^ bush. ; and of potatoes. 111 bush., 107^ 

 bush., and 106^ bush. The average produce of all the forty gardens was, 

 for each garden, as follows : — 



£ s. d. 

 Wheat on one quarter acre, at 8s. - - - - 2 16 



Potatoes on ditto (70 bushels, at \s. 6d.) - - -550 













8 1 



Deduct 





£ 



s. 



d. 





Rent 





- 1 













Seed wheat 





- 



6 









Seed potatoes 





- 



9 









Extra-labour (perhap 







- 1 











2 15 













Total profit - ^5 6 



Thus leaving a sum which, if subdivided into weeks, will give to each 

 labourer 2s. per week per annum, obtained by his own industry and exer- 

 tion. The pecuniary advantage of this plan to the payers of poor-rates, as 

 well as to the labourer, is too apparent to need any comment. But 

 nobody can sufficiently appreciate the moral improvement resulting from 

 the possession of property, however small, and the having an occupation 

 to resort to, in leisure or unemployed hours, rather than going to the beer- 

 shop. — E. E. W. Dec. 7. 



The Linnceaji Society of London, on the 21st of June last, 1832, had the 

 pleasure to receive from the East India Company a munificent present of 

 dried specimens of Indian plants, collected between longitude 73° and 114° 

 east, and latitude 32° north to the equator. During the last fifty years 

 several distinguished naturalists in the service of the East India Company 

 have accumulated a very rich herbarium, which contained, besides very 

 numerous duplicates, as many as 1300 genera, and about 8500 species. 

 The Company has, during the last few years, with great good sense and 

 liberality, distributed between 7000 and 8000 specimens from among the 

 duplicates, to individuals distinguished for their botanical attainments., and 

 also to some institutions, in various parts of the world ; and, in June last, 

 as a crowning act of judicious munificence, presented the whole of the 

 remaining herbarium, which comprises about 8000 species, and at least 

 80,000 specimens, to the Linnsean Society of London. The Society, fully 



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