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wheat, and other agricultural novelties, which we had previ- 

 ously mentioned in this Magazine. 



Catalogue et Prix-Coiirant pow' 1837 de la Collection des Plant es 

 de L. Jacob-Makoi/t Horticolteur^ Hue Neuville sur Avrot/, a 

 Liege. 8vg, 55 pages. Liege. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices. 



Equitable Rent for farming Land. — " We venture to say that the farmer 

 will never feel comfortable until his landlord shall agree to share with him both 

 prosperity and distress. The writer of these remarks, himself a landlord, saw 

 this long since ; and, having brought the tenants on his own lands (with some 

 difficulty it is true) to understand the subject, and to see the propriety of 

 mutual gain or loss being insured by regulating rent by prices, he has had the 

 high satisfaction of seeing his tenants, not only contented, but anxiously de>- 

 siring high prices, that they might pay him a better rent. Not only has he 

 that satisfaction, but eveiy one of them, feeling himself secure from loss, has 

 gone on with activity to execute extensive improvements, and to reclaim 

 waste land ; thus amply compensating to their landlord any imaginary loss 

 which short-sighted persons are apt to dread." {Le Couteur, on tile Varieties, 

 Properties, and Classification of Wheat. Scotsman, Feb. 8, 1837.) 



A simple Mouse-ti-ap. — To 



set the trap : — On a crust of 



108 ^^^'^^ ^^^''^^^Kfe^ cheese, about half an inch high, 



set the brim of a cup, and on the 

 tip of its base rest the brim of 

 a basin, as shown by fig. 108. 

 To take the mouse out : — Turn 

 the basin round till the tail ap- 

 pears, by which pop the prisoner 

 into water. To cottagers this 

 may be useful, being simple, 

 cheap, and ready. I have seen 

 twenty-four mice destroyed in 

 one day by this means. — A. 

 David. London, Jan. 2. 1836. 

 T'o destroy tlie Larvce of the Cockchafer — On the occasion of a secret com- 

 position being announced, lately, for the destruction of the white worm (the 

 larvas of the cockchafer), M. Letellier de Saint-Leu-Taverny has made known 

 to the Academy of Sciences that, since 1833, he has communicated to the 

 Society of Natural History experiments, proving that the greater number of 

 poisons, which are the most active on man, have scarcely any effect on these 

 larvae, and that alkalies (cyanuses) are the most speedy, the most certain, 

 and the least expensive means of destroying them, without injuring vegetation. 

 In consequence of this discovery, he has made use of the residuum of the cal- 

 cination of animal matter with alkali (potash or lime), which is impure 

 (cyanuse). He says the success is satisfactory, and he has restored sickly 

 shrubs to full vegetation which were supposed to be devoured by these insects. 

 He owns, however, that he could not repeat his experiments in 1836. 

 (L'Hermes, Feb. 1837.) 



Flued Borders. — The vigour with which males of the genus Crinum, and 

 many other plants, grow out of doors against the front wall of a stove, per- 

 suades me that a great variety of plants might, with a little care, be cultivated 

 better in the open ground than under glass, if the border in which they are 



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