184 Literary Notices. — General Notices. 



circumstances which present themselves in practice ; and therefore, in the 

 following tables, separate columns are given for each of these methods ; it 

 being always expedient to sow a somewhat larger portion of seeds without 

 than with a corn crop ; and, in that case, it is farther advisable, for affording 

 shelter to the young plants, to add a bushel of rye to the mixture when 

 sown in autumn, and a bushel of barley when sown in spring ; to be de- 

 pastured or cut green along with the young grass crop." (p. 34.) 



As a specimen of the care with which the tables have been drawn up, we 

 give an extract from IV., which exhibits the mixture for " Fine Lawns, Bow- 

 ling-Greens, &c., kept constantly under the scythe." There are three columns, 

 viz. for light soils, heavy soils, and medium soils, and in each column there 

 is the quantity for sowing with a crop and without a crop. We shall give a 

 selection for a medium soil without a crop, viz. Cynosurus cristatus, 6 lb. ; 

 Festiica duriuscula, 3 lb. ; Festuca tenuifolia, 2 lb. ; iolium perenne tenne, 

 20 lb. ; Poa nemoralis. If lb. ; P, n. sempervirens, If lb. ; Poa trivialis. If lb. ; 

 TVifolium repens, 7 lb. ; and T. r. minus, 2 lb. ; in all 45^ lb. to a statute 

 acre. 



" In walks, bowling-greens, &c., which are wished to be kept as dry as pos- 

 sible, especially towards the end of the season, Trifolium repens should be 

 sparingly introduced; and when it is intended to mow the grass by machine, 

 instead of the common scythe, greater proportions of the hard and fine-leaved 

 fescues may be sown." (p. 40.) 



The prices of all the seeds enumerated in the tables may be ascertained by 

 application to the authors for their priced list of agricultural seeds, which 

 they publish annually. 



Art. II. Literary Notices. 



Remarks on the Lat/ing out of Cemeteiies and the Improvement of Church- 

 yards, forming an octavo pamphlet of 130 pages, with above 30 engravings, 

 will appear with the present Number. It contains the two articles already 

 published, and those which are intended to appear ; therefore no reader of 

 this Magazine need have recourse to the pamphlet. 



London Nuisances ; viz. Smoke, Water, Fire, Sewerage, Roads, &c., will 

 appear on April 1., and will be completed in 12 numbers. The author is A. 

 Booth, Esq., chemical engineer, whose Guide to London is noticed in our 

 Volume for 1839, p. 562. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices. 



To prevent Mice from destroying early sown Peas, take a few small slices 

 of bread, and dust a little arsenic on them. Place these slices on different 

 parts where the peas are sown, and cover them over with pots or any other 

 thing, so that nothing but the mice can get to the bread. This plan I have 

 found quite sure of destroying the mice. — M. Said. 



Dkmmara ojientdlis has been found by M.Neumann to succeed when grafted 

 on the Araucaria imbricata. The mode adopted is the wedge side-grafting, 

 invented by Mr. Barron in grafting the deodara on the cedar of Lebanon, 

 and described in our Volume for 1838, p. 80. One advantage of this mode 

 of grafting (by which the stock is not cut over) is, that, if it does not suc- 

 ceed, the stock is not injured; but with M. Neumann there was hardly a 

 single failure. Ddmmara australis might probably be rendered half-hardy by 

 being grafted on the Araucaria. (Ann. d" Hort. de Paris, tom. xxx. p. 393.) 



