(ind a Soil suitable to its Culture. 
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where the seed woukl most likely be brought to perfection. On 
the 24th September the produce of exactly 4 poles of ground 
was taken from this part (without the roots) when almost free 
from adhering moisture, and weighed : — 
Tons. cwts. lbs. 
4 poles gave 903 lbs. = for 1 acre .. .. 16 2 56 
The produce of 4 poles in another part of the field, where the 
crop was rather more bulky, was also taken and weighed. 
Here 
Tons. cwts. lbs. 
4 poles gave 1210 lbs. = for 1 acre.. .. 21 12 16 
I think the lupine crop is likely to prove valuable on light 
sandy soils, where there is a difficulty of growing large crops of 
the ordinary farm-plants. Of the great quantity of green food 
which it produces 1 can speak with certainty, and I can express 
a favourable opinion of its feeding value. If it will produce a 
crop of ripe seed of a nutritious nature in ordinary seasons, it 
will become still more valuable. 
Next season I shall venture to plant about the middle of 
March. 
Ja.mes W. KcdBER. 
Tuhney Warren, Ahiiigdon, 27th Nov., 18G0. 
Report of an Unsuccessful Experiment in growing Yellow and 
Blue Lupines. By P. H. Frere. 
It is with some feeling of disappointment that I put on record 
results which tend to the conclusion that the lupine is a plant 
not adapted to all the varieties of dry soil which are indis- 
criminately called sandy or heath lands. If, as I trust may be 
the case, it thrives well on fields whose yellow or reddish colour 
indicates the presence of sand in the most popular acceptation of 
the word, it does not seem adapted for those black, gritty, sili- 
ceous heaths overlying chalk-rubble and chalk which abound in 
Cambridgeshire around Newmarket. 
On my appointment last spring, being anxious to investigate 
thoroughly for the Society the merits of a plant which seemed to 
claim attention as being appropriate to soils for which some 
change of croj^s was especially desirable, I set aside 9J acres 
for the growth of the yellow and blue lupines. The result was 
a total and costly failure, and my present object is only so far to 
state in detail the method of my proceeding, that others may be 
able to judge whether the result turned upon mismanagement or 
the peculiarity of the last season, or whether my experience is a 
legitimate warning against a repetition of the attempt on soils 
really resembling mine. 
