322 Foreign Notices : — France, Germany. 



with a very small exception, were produced by the same plant, and in the 

 same district, viz., that of Bohea. The literal meaning of the term " congou," 

 in the Chinese, is " prepared or manufactured," and the meaning of " sou- 

 chong," is " selected." (Morning Post, March 18. 1834.) 



The Zante Currant. — The fruit of this plant \s generally believed to be 

 seedless ; however, this is not altogether correct. Generally there is found a 

 berry in each bunch, near its upper part, twice and often thrice the size of the 

 others, which only contains a single seed. This is curious, and, I believe, has 

 escaped common observation. — F. Huthwaite. The Tower, London, June G. 

 1834. 



Art. II. Foreign Notices. 

 FRANCE. 



Paris, April, 1834. — After a January and February of almost unexampled 

 mildness, we had at last winter in March : short, it is true, but tolerably 

 severe. From the 12th to the 20th of March, it froze every day; and on 

 the 16th and the 19th, it did considerable mischief to vegetation. A sharp, 

 drying wind continued nearly the whole month ; and the country in the first 

 week in April was not half so beautiful or so spring-like as it was in January. 

 Our agriculturists have been lately much annoyed by a spurious kind of manure, 

 which has been sold under the name of the noir animalise, but which does not 

 contain either blood or any of those animal matters which have rendered the 

 true noir animalise so valuable as a manure. The adulteration is made with 

 the black earth of Picardy, and the fraud may be detected by making a small 

 quantity red hot in a shovel, and then suffering it to cool. If pure, the 

 cinders will be grey ; but if adulterated, they will be streaked with reddish par- 

 ticles. The Horticultural Society of Paris having obtained permission to 

 make use of a large room in the hotel de ville (town hall), held their first 

 winter exhibition there on Sunday, March 2. The number of flowering plants 

 sent was greater than could possibly be received j and the crowd that came to 

 see them during the four days that the plants were exhibited, was great beyond 

 what it has ever been on any former occasion. The novelty of a winter 

 flower show had, no doubt, some share in producing this numerous attendance, 

 but the beauty of the plants exhibited was such as to render any other reason 

 unnecessary. M Neumann, foreman of botanic hot-houses in the Jardin des 

 Plantes, has received the Horticultural Society's large medal of encourage- 

 ment. M. Neumann is quite a young man, only thirty-four, but he has seen 

 a good deal of his profession, having been sent by Professor Thouin to the 

 Isle of Bourbon, where he remained three years, and whence he brought a 

 rich collection of plants in 1824. — J. F. 



GERMANY. 



The late Professor Kernels Works. — In consequence of the death of the 

 professor of natural history here, the celebrated Jean Simon de Kerner, 

 some copies of his magnificent works are to be sold, at moderate prices, by D. 

 C. Kerner, Rue de la Couronne, at Stuttgard, his son. These works are : — 1. J. 

 S. de Kerner Genera plantarum selectarum iconibus illustrata, 10 vol. avec 

 200 tables, imp. fol. papier velin anglais ; hauteur 2', largeur 1' 5" &", pied 

 de Paris. Sur chaque dessein l'auteur a trace 1'analyse exacte de la fleur, qu'il 

 represente, tel que du calice jusqu'a la poussiere seminale et l'embryon, meme 

 toutes ses parties anatomiques sont dessinees avec la plus grande precision ; 

 et l'imitation parfaite des formes de chaque plante et la vivacite des couleurs, 

 auxquelles il avait le talent de donner l'eclat de la nature, impriment a, ces 

 desseins, tous faits par lui meme, le merite d'un ouvrage original. Chaque 

 dessein est accompagne d'une feuille de texte en latin, contenant en detail la 

 description de la plante, ses synonymes, son espece, sa patrie, et l'explication 

 de 1'analyse. 2. J. S. de Kerner, Hortus Sempervirens, exhibens icones planta- 



