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zebra; and also points out in 425515 che great an 
of mules aa draught animals in Hog and in her 
255 one * to the neglect of the many useful new 
hybrids which judicious . might have intro- 
duced. It is, as the rs show 
regretted that more attention is ye paid 
English to raising animals for use 
Africa, and other — where and es are fo 
various reasons more suitable than horses, To 
ensure a cross between an ass and a mare is not 
enough; the selection of the parents should be made 
rpet the mules, once 
bee pied ld be rini ‘only to —— aud 
experienced hands, who will understand the require- 
ments and disposition of the different varieties—how 
much to expect of them, and how best to exact it. 
Male-breediag, in fact, should be considered as a 
science, aud studied as such by en who are inte- 
indiscriminate cros 
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t 
developed characteristics, Sach, 
subjects treated of in this book, and the large circle 
of readers to whom Mr. Trcermerar’s name is known 
may be assured that this authority is one 
whom they may confidently rely, and that this farther 
work from his pen will be found as instructive and 
readable as any of his previous contributions. The 
volume is neatly got up, and contains numerous 
illustrations. 
COLONIAL NOTES.— We have received the 
supplement uP the Leeward Islands Gazette, which is 
devoted to a paper “Oa the Manufacture of Mas- 
= — mns in Antigua in 1894,” by Francis 
I. C., Government chemist, Mach useful 
information is given on an important subject, and 
the experimental manufactures here reported upon 
were evidently carefully supervised, and the results 
tabulated. 
VEGETABLE PRODUCTS AT BORDEAUX, — 
From a Report on the Trade and Commerce of 
f. / 
to the very large figare of abont 
wt 
fmmense proda ction, quality of the fruit 
was m inferior, as is usually the case after 
d this circumstance, together 
k remaining over from the year 
ion of prices. Basi 
very small crop 
and the entire quantity, at 
,000 cwt., was exported, this being about half the 
usual yield, Quality was defective, bat r 
prices ruled high, medium Walnuts fe g EI 25, 
and best £1 8s, per cwt, This arti — — to 
continue in great demand both in Germ many and in 
the United States of America (probably — the 
German portion of the eee for C 
that even Wa 
hem- 
selves direct ect to — —— prices 3 e ntly 
high. The consumption of corks tgs — and 
brandies and for mineral waters continues large in 
e and though Spain and Portugal import their 
eaper manufactures in large quantities, the French 
ook is a to maintain its position in the French 
markets. ui me aprh German, and American 
e os 9 especially in the 
countries last mentioned, where the duties on cork 
manufactures are very high. Mushrooms, x r 5 
appear to be getting more and more scarce both at 
Paris, and also in other is NAS of 
production, prices of this prodact ruling very high, 
whilst the quantity brought to market is insufficient 
for the demands. It is difficult to say whether the 
outfall in the Mushroom production of late years 
has been 3 to unſavourable weather, or to an 
excess of manure, but widespread complaints are 
heard from — who state they are losing money 
whilst waiting for act . of their prospects, 
and also from Mas m pa lac 
under the Peer ef of ee — orders 
in consequence of the restricted production 
E 
. 
Pu me ing ope — The rag History 
of Plants, Keeser & Ori (BrackiE & Sons, 
London, Glasgow, and Dablin ) Part 12, containing an 
accountof th 
Phanerogams; Fruits replaced by Offshoots; Par- 
morphism and Alternation of 
thenogenesis ; her 
Generations, so—The History of Species, includ- 
ia , The are of Species, Definition d 2 
the Specific Oouitisasion of Protoplasm. 2, Altera 
tion in the Form of Species; Dormia of Plant 
Form on Soil and Climate ; Infide ence of Mutilation 
n the Form of Plants; Alteration of Form by 
Parasitic Fangi; and Alteration of Form by Gall- 
We. 
producing Insects, — Western Australian Year 
Book for 1893-4, Matcoum A “ RASER, 
(Perth, by Authority: RıcmarD vern- 
ment Printer.) A valuable niia work, 
neluding : rief History of Discove of 
in M 
Resources, Pastoral and 2 Production, 
Railways, Live Stock, and other equally important 
e — Report of Work of the Agricultural Ex- 
ment Stations of the University of California, 
2 pe year 2 1 and part of 1894, (Sacra- 
mento: State Office). A record of much important 
work done under the supervision of the College 
of Agriculture, inclading Agricultural, 
Cc cal, Horticultural, Entomological, and Myco- 
logical investigations, 3 and systematically 
made over a considerable a 
PLANT inate 
Ca A Buesrpcer X, Garden, 
hybrid out èt 0. deflexa by 6. Pavonii. 
of the appearance of amplexicaulis. 
BRACTEATA, Garden, April 27.— Leave 
linear, white beneath ; 2 5 8 
white, 8 with r 
y 4.—A 
y much 
A Dox wr f e X, Revue de I’ Horti- 
culture Belge, May 1. ; 
EPENTHES CURTISI sUPERBA and N, mixta 
Wiener, Illust, Gartenzeit,, 1895, t, 1. r 
Pronus P PROSTRATA, Garten Flora, May 1.—Dwarf 
ofa Pen flowers pink, fruit reddish, spherical, the size 
ELLIA Maxorana, Revue de I’ Horticulture B Belge, 
ay. Leaves lanceolate, green above, with white 
3 N purple beneath; flowers 2 inches 
2 — Garden, April 20, 
——_—X_AA 
NOTICES 8 OF OF Books, 
A age OF a ATIO BOTANY, 
AE 
M. C, Potter. 
& Co.) 
By 
Edited by 
: Swan, Sonnenschein 
Ir is a rare thing now-a-days to get a text-book 
on *ystematic botany, so widely has the pendulum 
22 in the direction of anatomy and 
A quarter of a centur 
cannot be simultaneously advanced, as they 
be, did we follow the German plan o of appointing 
separate professors for each department, 
Alge is also not quite familiar. Amo g them 
arranged the Bacteria, which are quite as 1 
placed in among the fungi ; 
In the case of the flowering 1 the editor í 
makes mention of Dr, Treub's vie 
e enters the ovule through the chalaza, 
nd not t once the micropyle, But this seeme 
prematur not * pegaen know a | 
e, e do 
warrant ald an arra neen 
ordens are also in ae 
me sly diffuse, and contrast 
unfavourably with the crisp concise w. — in which Ds 
Candolle, Lindley or Gray, for in et set forth the 
8 characters of the se 
same time, the discussion of hes mutual affinities ; 
of “the groups is hardly entered on at all, and the 
. Warming’s, and ind most of the m 
treatises than in the classic works alluded 
e allocation of Salici Q 
Urti a man hers h 
Choripetalæ, will puzzle students, who will fnd 
no pe at all in the named, It 
as the freedom either absolute 
stamens, British botaniste sbonld in any ca 
suggestive book more prominently before them, 
me PLANTES Seng 
Mr. Doin, 8, fies 
a useful little — on bulbous "i 
culture. Not only bulbs, but tuberous 
gg 3 wad 
us, there is nothing of the in 
literature. How true this may be of F 
ture we do not know; it can — apply to 
England, which can boast of 
Herbert, Gawler, Elwes, As Maw, Baker, 
bidge, besides the more purely cul cultural works, 
as that of Fish, and the very numerous 
in which bulbous plants are treated of. 
neuf first suppl 
r purposes, A table showing the | 1 
wd the plants bel be expected to 
serviceable, In a new edition it will 
revise the names e to the Inder 
ke sundry corrections in 
to be very useful to them. 
