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however, of the diseased cattle may possibly afford a favourable 

 nidus for the development of the mould. 



• Id the same number of the ' Medical Journal and Gazette ' in 

 which Dr. Lionel Beale's observations were published, a letter ap- 

 peared, in which it was hinted that the Bed Bust which was so 

 prevalent last year in grass, might be the cause. It is no new 

 idea that disease may arise from the Bust, when so abundant as to 

 be swallowed in great quantities with the food ; but there is not 

 the slighest foundation, either from experiment or observation, 

 for the supposition. At present it is mere matter of surmise. Be 

 this, however, as it may, the Bed Bust is so old a native, and so very 

 frequent a visitant, that we cannot logically ascribe so formidable 

 and little-known a complaint to such a cause. Spores of the Bed 

 Bust were, indeed, in many cases found in the passages, exactly as 

 particles of soot or any other light substance may be inhaled • but 

 they have never been seen to penetrate the tissues. 



But very few objects were submitted to the fruit Committee : 

 some specimens of the Northern Greening, a name which is often 

 erroneously given to the "Winter Greening, a very different Apple, 

 came from the garden of Mr. Skinner, at King's Cliffe, in North- 

 amptonshire, and from the same village a very prolific seedling, 

 raised by Mr. Dixon, which was, however, too ripe to judge of its 

 merits. A seedling Apple, somewhat resembling the Court of 

 Wick Pippin, was sent by Mr. Christie, of Avington, near "Win- 

 chester, which was thought of sufficient merit to cause a request 

 that it might be seen again. Some excellent Apple- Jelly, made 

 from Grange's Apple, was sent by Mr. Fleming, of Cliveden. 



March 10. — Among the subjects shown on March 10th were 

 three new varieties of Hyacinth, all possessing considerable merit. 

 They were shown by Mr. Young, gardener to B. Barclay, Esq., 

 Highgate. One called Sir JE. Landseer, was of a reddish puce, 

 with a dark stripe in the centre of each segment : it was rather 

 short in the spike ; but this appeared to be the result of some 

 check in its development. Another, called General JPelissier, was 

 of a pale gray or lilac, clearer in tint than the well-known Grand 

 Lilas ; it was an effective sort. Another, called Mary, was a 

 pure white, with close spike, and broad, short segments to the 

 corolla, and hence less coarse-looking than such otherwise fine 

 varieties as Queen of the Netherlands, the flowers being indivi- 

 dually smaller but closer. Mr. Bartlett, of Hammersmith, showed 

 half-a-dozen plants of Prunus sinensis alba, which is one of the most 

 chaste and beautiful of dwarf hardy shrubs adapted for forcing into 



