340 General Notices. 



the essays are on British birds, their habits, food, &c., the 

 work is particularly interesting to gardeners, and other cul- 

 tivators. For the general reader, the Autobiography is, in our 

 opinion, worth the price of the volume. 



Directions on Practical Agriculture, for the Working Farmers of 

 Ireland, originally published in the Cork Southern Reporter, 

 under the Signature of^^ Agricola." By the Rev. William R. 

 Townsend, Rector of Aghada, Diocese of Cloyne. pp. 64. 

 Cork, 1837. 



A cheap little work, calculated to do much good in the loca- 

 lity for which it is intended. At the end, there are Farmer's 

 Calendar, Farmer's Agricultural Catechism, and a little gar- 

 dening and cookery for the farmers' wives. Some idea may be 

 formed of the want of such a work from the following directions: — 

 " Instead of, as at present, boiling fish and putting it on a plate, 

 swimmino- in its own broth, the men and children then dipping 

 their potato, peeled with their fingers (a nasty practice), into 

 the dish, and taking a pinch of the fish now and then, let a 

 quantity of potatoes be well boiled and broken small; then well- 

 boiled fish mixed up with it, a little pepper and salt, and some 

 butter or lard, then heated and put on the table ; or make it 

 into shapes, and brown it before the fire : the latter is a hand- 

 some dish, fit for any table." (Page 63.) 



Fourih Annual Report of the Jersey Agricultural and Horticul- 

 tural Society. 8vo, pp. 58. Jersey, 1837. 

 This is a prosperous Society, which, judging from the Report, 

 has already effected much good in the island, particularly 

 among the cottagers. All, it is stated, have been struck with 

 the improved appearance of their gardens and cottages. Among 

 the prizes for the year 1838, are six for the best cropped, 

 cleaned, and cultivated gardens ; others, for the introduction of 

 Nutt's bee-hives, which, after two years' trial, Col. Lecouteur 

 found fully to answer the expectations he had entertained of 

 them. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices^ 



TIesVLTS in Summer and Autumn of the Weather of the preceding Spring. — 

 We are often at a loss to account for certain results occurring in summer and 

 autumn, from our neglect or forgetfulness of meteorological phenomena which 

 have happened in the spring. At the present date, I wish to remark that, 

 since the beginning of the present month, we have, in this quarter, experienced 

 dry parching winds from the north-east and east, as happens in most seasons. 

 Wall trees were mostly m bloom during the last two weeks of April; standard 

 and espalier plums followed ; and now the pears and cherries, and a few of the 



