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that the poor cannot participate in these tastes, but this will be effected in 

 due time, by a comprehensive system of national education, " at the expenss 

 of all, and for the benefit of all." 



Art. II. Literary Notice, 



A Treatise on Manures, their Nature, Preparation, and Application ; with 

 a Notice of the Useful British Grasses, and a Section on the General Ma- 

 nagement of a Farm, by J. Donaldson, is in the press, and will appear in 

 the course of January. We anticipate much from this work, knowing Mr. 

 Donaldson to be one of the most scientific agriculturists of the present day, 

 and one who has had much experience, both as a farmer and land-steward, 

 in the best cultivated districts of Scotland, and also in Northumberland, 

 Leicestershire, Kent, and other parts of England. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices. 



Godsall's Label for Fruit Trees (fig. 1.) consists of a shank, which is an 

 ox's or a horse's rib, and a tablet, which is a square piece of ^^^ 

 sheet lead of 4 lb. to the foot, suspended from the shank by \^\ 

 a piece of copper wire ; the lead is covered with a thin coat VfiTiZ 

 of black varnish paint, and while wet the name is written with \ l '/' ln 

 a steel point. Mr. Godsall has used this tally for a number 

 of years, and finds it to be very durable, and the shanks, from 

 their white colour, very conspicuous, which is an advantage 

 when the tallies are placed among green foliage. — W. G. Here- 

 ford, Nov. 12. 1841. 



Packing the L«n'.r Godsdllu. — I received a plant of this 

 splendid weeper packed round the inside of a hoop of a 

 washing-tub, perfectly safe, though it had travelled from Here- 

 fordshire, which is upwards of 300 miles. I took the hint, and 

 sent a plant of the Crataegus which you so much admired to 

 our friend the doctor in Dublin. — T. B. Dec. I. 1811. Fi „ ] 



Progressive Increase of Temperature. — In spring there is a GoJsulVs Label. 

 progressive increase of temperature. May not this have some- 

 thing to do with the vegetation of all ultra-tropical seeds, and should we not 

 do well to imitate this in raising plants from seeds of difficult germination ? — 

 N. August, 1841. 



Mr. Cree's Mode of pruning Forest Trees. — " The object of Mr. Cree's 

 mode of pruning is, to throw the whole of the wood produced into one 

 straight stem or trunk ; and to increase the rapidity of the growth of this 

 stem, in a greater degree than has been done by any other method of pruning 

 hitherto adopted. To accomplish these objects, Mr. Cree shortens all the 

 side branches soon after they are produced, but does not cut a single bough 

 off close to the stem till the tree is above 18 ft. in height, and not less 

 than 15 in. in circumference at the surface of the ground. A tree thus treated 

 forms a narrow cone, like a cypress or a Lombardy poplar, clothed with 

 branches from the ground to the summit ; those at the ground being from 

 2 ft. to 3 ft. in length, and from i in. to 1 in. in diameter close to the trunk, 

 both the length of the branches and their thickness diminishing, of course, 

 as they approach the summit. We repeat, that not one of these branches 

 is cut off close to the stem till the tree has attained 18 or 20 feet in height, 

 when the lower tier of branches is completely removed ; and one tier is 

 afterwards cut off annually, always close to the stem, till a sufficient length 

 of clear trunk is produced ; that length, of course, varying according to the 

 kind of tree, the soil, and various other circumstances. The branches which 

 are shortened always remain slender ; and, when they are cut off close to the 



