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Art. VIII. Short Communication. 



The Simple Field-Style {^g. 81.) is in use in the fences which 

 separate fields in some parts of Worcestershire. It is merely 

 two posts, somewhat curved, either placed 

 close together at bottom, and about a foot 

 apart at top ; or placed six or eight inches 

 apart at bottom, with the cross piece h at 

 about a foot from the ground. In either 

 case the expense is trifling. It is not likely 

 to go out of repair ; and, while it is most 

 readily passed by females, and even children, 

 no cattle, not even sheep and lambs, can 

 pass through it. [To prevent the possi- 

 bility of sheep or cattle of any kind passing 

 through such an opening in a fence, it is 

 only farther necessary to drive in two posts, each about a foot 

 distance from the centre of the stile. This, however, is never 

 found necessary in Worcestershire, though it might in counties 

 where Welsh or Highland sheep are kept in enclosed pastures.] 

 — Anon. Worcestershire, July 1834. 



Art. IX. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of nevdy introduced 

 Plants, and of Plants of Interest previously in our Gardens, supple- 

 mentary to the latest Editions of the " Encyclopcsdia of Plants,'' 

 and of the " Hortus Britannicus." 



Curtis s Botanical Magazine ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 eight plates ; 3s. 6d. coloured, Ss. plain. Edited by Dr. Hooker, 

 King's Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. 



Edtvards's Botanical Register ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 eight plates; 45. coloured, 3,?. plain. Edited by Dr. Lindley, 

 Professor of Botany in the London University. 



Sweet's British Flovoer- Garden ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 four plates ; 3s. coloured, 2s. Sd. plain. Edited by David Don, 

 Esq., Librarian to the Linnsean Society. 



Facts *w?iich have a general Relation to Floriculture. — Dr. 

 Hooker has discontinued his Journal of Botany so far as to its 

 name ; but a continuation of the supply of the kind of inform- 

 ation which has been published in the Journal of Botany is to 

 be made in a work to be entitled. Companion to the Botanical 

 Magazine. It was announced upon the cover of the Bot. Mag., 

 the number for August, that the first number of the Companion 

 was published on that day. Each number is to include two 

 sheets of closely printed matter, accompanied by two plates par- 

 tially coloured : its price Is. 6d. ; stitched with the magazine, Is. 



