Indications of the Fertility or Barrenness of Soils. 443 
Hopins: I mav have aflforded, in some degree, the information 
vou require (and that in a plain, though not in a learned or an 
eloquent manner), I will conclude by saying that I have inclosed 
a few specimens of different plants, with the names attached — at 
least the names by which we know them in the country, — and 
have classed them as they appear on the different soils, as far as 
they relate to indications of barrenness. The vegetation on good 
land, every one knows, is of the best kind, consequently it needs 
no description from me. 
Plants found on poor Wet Clay Pasture- Land. 
No. 1. Wood-wax. 
No. 2. Moon. 
No. 3. Fire-leaves. 
No. 4. Black- bents. 
No. 5. Carnation-grass. 
To which may be added gurse, rushes, and a blue-flowering plant, 
which does not blossom till September, when many acres of this farm 
actually look blue with the flowers of this plant. 
Plants found on poor Wet Clay Arable-La?id. 
No. 6. Wild tansey. 
No. 7. Wild teasel. 
To which may be added those that the present season will not afford 
specimens, viz. : — 
Horse-mint. 
Wild withy. 
Hollow Farm, Elmore, near Gloucester. 
XXVI. — On the Use of Bones as a Manure with Sulphuric Acid. 
No. 1. — Experiments made on Turnips tcith different Manures, 
on the Home Farm of Gordon Castle, Morayshire, in the year 
1843, with the effect on the succeeding crop in 1844. — From 
the President, the Duke of Richmond. 
The soil is of a poor, light, sandy nature; the turnips, which 
were Dale's Hybrid, were sown in drills "27 inches apart, and one 
half drawn for cattle in the yards, the other half eaten on the ground 
with sheep. The land was afterwards sown down with Chevalier 
barley and grass seeds, without any manure. The lots consist of 
