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legumes combine all the points required of a green manure : plant-nitrogen 

 absorption from the air, deep-rooting, and, at the proper stage of growth, 

 that succulence which is conducive to quick decay. Details are given of 

 the several species of Lupines : (1) Lupinus pilosus, Linn. ; (2) Lupinus 

 pilosus ccerulens, Hort. ; (3) Lupinus pilosus roseus, Hort. ; (4) Lupinus 

 lutcus sativus, Hort. ; (5) Lupinus affinis, Agardh, &c. Hints are 

 given for sowing and cultivation, and upon the various uses to which the 

 plants and seeds may be put, apart from manuring. The Small Blue 

 Lupine and Small White Lupine would seem, as a result of experiment, to be 

 the best for light soils, and the Large White Lupine has proved satisfactory, 

 but is valueless on a stiff clay soil. Comparative tables are given showing 

 (1) cultures of various Lupines ; (2) weekly growth ; and (3) yield per 

 acre of various Lupines. — V. J. M. 



Mangolds and Swedes : Experiments (Holmes Chapel Hort. 

 School Rep. 1901). — Mangolds : twenty-nine varieties tested on clay-loam 

 soil. Manures applied per acre, 16 tons farmyard manure, 3 cwt. super- 

 phosphate, \ cwt. sulphate of ammonia. Best yields from Sutton's 

 Devon Short Top Yellow Globe, and Carter's Mammoth Prize Long Red, 



Swedes, twenty-four varieties tested. Manures per acre, 16 tons farm- 

 yard manure, 6 cwt. superphosphate, \ cwt. sulphate of ammonia. Yield 

 varies from 17 tons to 3 tons per acre. Carter's ' Holborn Kangaroo ' 

 most profitable. — J. C. E. K. 



Manures, Experiments with. By R. S. Seton (Yorks. Coll. 

 Leeds Tract. No. 16). — Valuable returns of a series of experiments with 

 various different manures and combinations of manures. The crop raised 

 after application of a mixture of dung, superphosphate, and sulphate of 

 ammonia was, for example, found to be nearly three times that from an 

 unmanured patch in the same field. The crop experimented with was 

 Swedes, and it was found that when artificials alone were used super- 

 phosphate was by far the best, but although the weight per acre increased 

 with the addition of sulphate of ammonia, it did not do so in proportion 

 to the additional outlay. It was also found that the seed came up quicker 

 and more regularly on land previously dressed with manures harrowed in 

 before sowing. When, however, the seed and the manures were drilled in 

 together, the roots were found to be finer when full-grown. — W. W. 



Manuring" Meadow Hay (Yorks. Coll. Leeds Rep. 1900).— Two 

 years' experiments show that an annual dressing with dung will leave 

 considerable margin of profit. The heaviest average crop was got from 

 an annual dressing of H cwt. nitrate of soda, 2 cwt. superphosphate, 

 and 3 cwt. kainit per plot, but the size of the plots is left to be inferred 

 from the heading of various appendices, from which they appear to have 

 been one-acre plots. — W. W. 



Masdevallia Schroederiana. By Sir J. D. Hooker (Bot. Mag* 

 tab. 7859).— Nat. ord. Oi'chidea, tribe Epidcndrea. Native of Peru (?). 

 The flowers have yellow tails to the sepals, which are white, bullate, 

 with crimson stripes. — G. H. 



