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but with regard to the branchlet Mr. Brown says “ Perhaps, to be very 
critical, we might object in a small degree to the rather high orange colour 
which pervades the picture. The grounds for this objection are somewhat 
more imaginary than real, as the young wood and flowering buds of the 
particular mallee are generally of a bright orange colour, as depicted by the 
artist.” It would be useful if all botanists followed Mr. Brown’s example 
in such notes. The letterpress gives in each case a “popular description” 
of each plant, so that the work is of interest to a wider circle than that of 
scientific botanists alone. The work aims at being popular, and the 
u botanic description ”'is in each case printed in small type at the end of 
the general description. Under the “bottle bush tea tree” is given a brief 
historical notice of the discovery by Captain Cook’s men of its use as an 
anti-scorbutic. There are “ salt water ” and “ fresh water ” tea trees, and 
the bushmen know by them what quality of water abounds in the districts. 
“Snail farms” have been introduced in Switzerland, where many gardens 
round Davos and Landguart, in the Grisons, are used for the sole cultiva- 
tion of that Continental delicacy, “Escargots de Bourgogne.” Children 
gather the snails off the hedges in summer and place them on bushes in the 
farms. There they are fed on refuse vegetable leaves, and surrounded by 
a thick barrier of sawdust, which prevents their escape. When the cold 
weather comes the snails, grown fat, bury themselves in the sawdust to 
begin their long winter sleep, but they are soon collected and sent off to 
Italy to be sold for 14s. and 16s. the basket of 2 cwt. 
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