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traveller, has amply earned any compliment which it is in the power of botany 

 to confer. I am anxious to take this opportunity of expressing my own 

 obligations to Mr. Bowie, for considerable assistance towards the present 

 undertaking." (p. 347.) We are also happy to have an opportunity of 

 publicly expressing our obligations to Mr. Bowie, for several valuable com- 

 munications to this Magazine. We should be glad if he would add to them 

 some account of the Ludwigsburg Gardens, now under his care. — Lachenah'a. 

 Mr. Harvey once met with a double-flowering variety, not unlike a double 

 hyacinth in miniature. — /uncus serriitus (Palmiel) is a noble plant, with tall, 

 thick, trunk-like stems, surmounted by a dense crown of large, broad, serrate, 

 channeled leaves, from the centre of which rises the much-branched panicle of 

 flowers. — Phce v nix reclinata is the only palm indigenous in South Africa. — 

 Zantedeschia afithiopica (Calla aethiopica L.) abounds by waysides and water 

 courses, where its flowers are conspicuous at almost all seasons. — Typha 

 latifolia is common in wet places by the flats in water courses. It is given by 

 Thunberg as a naturalised plant, but in Mr. Harvey's opinion unjustly. 



This truly interesting work must have been one of immense labour to its 

 author ; but it has evidently been one that afforded him great delight; it is a 

 valuable addition to our botanical literature, and will establish his name in all 

 future times as a scientific botanist. 



Art. IV. Fifth Annual Report of the Jersey Agricultural and Hor- 

 ticultural Society for 1838. 8vo, pamph. pp.70. Jersey, 1839. 



The Jersey Society appears to be one of the most useful of its kind in any 

 country. The first part of this report notices the progress made in the agri- 

 cultural department ; and here several farms are named as having been exa- 

 mined by the committee and found greatly improved. Liquid manure, in 

 Jersey called " purin," is beginning to be collected by all classes of culti- 

 vators, from the cottager upwards, and is found " an invaluable manure, of 

 easy transport, perfectly free from seeds or weeds, and, when judiciously ap- 

 plied to grasses, of astonishing value." The loss sustained by British farmers 

 from allowing the liquid matters about farmeries to run to waste is incalcu- 

 lable ; and even where liquid manure is collected and carried out to the field, 

 its fertilising powers are not half what they would be if it were kept a suffi- 

 cient length of time to undergo fermentation. This any person may prove on 

 a few yards of grass land, or on a bed of onions or carrots ; watering one half 

 with recent liquid manure, and the other half with stale or fermented liquid 

 manure. Draining generally, furrow draining or frequent draining, subsoil 

 ploughing, soiling or yard feeding, and the saving and grinding of all bones, 

 and the saving of all waste liquids whatever, are words which ought to form 

 the text of every author who wishes to instruct his readers in the great secret 

 of improving the agriculture of England as at present practised. 



In the horticultural department it is particularly gratifying to observe the 

 improvement which has taken place in cottage gardens. " The encouragement 

 given to the cultivation of the small gardens belonging to cottagers, by judi- 

 cious and liberal distribution of rewards, has produced an improvement among 

 them which is evident to every one who frequents our markets ; the supply of 

 fruits and vegetables, as to quality, being from this source equal to the same 

 products from the gardens of the rich proprietors ; and, in the department of 

 vegetables, the improvement is so important, that the market-gardener from 

 England has frequent recourse for his supplies to the Jersey gardener. At 

 the same time, the Board have the satisfaction to announce, that, while there 

 has been an increased attention to this more profitable branch, there has been 

 a marked improvement in the floriculture of the island. 



" The Visiting Committee saw the gardens of several cottagers in the spring 

 and autumn, and, according to their rules, took the opportunity of inspecting 

 their cottages, and enquiring into their general domestic economy. It is with 



