92 Miscellaneous. 
Advertisement fob a Gardener's Situation. — We particularly call the 
attention of any gentleman wanting a good Gardener, to the Advertisement on 
our cover. We have known the advertiser a considerable time, and can speak 
with confidence of his abilities. 
We may perhaps be excused for offering a few hints on the manner of Gar- 
deners advertising for situations. We think it essential for the person adver- 
tising, to state explicitly where he last lived, and how long ; and also as many 
previous situations as he may think necessary. This will inform a gentleman 
what may be expected from engaging him, and will completely distinguish 
him from one of those jobbing men who brew, bake, milk, and (as the phrase- 
ology goes) "have no objection to take care of a horse and gig." This method 
will prevent much future dissatisfaction, as a judgment of the applicant's 
abilities may be easily formed from the situations he had heretofore held. 
Such is the plan we would recommend, and we feel confident that it would be 
soon more approved of, than the dog-trot method of applying to A. B. &c. 
which, by giving an air of mystery to the announcement, leaves an opening 
for sinister interpretations. Conductors. 
IV.— COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
ZooLOtiiCAL Society. — The most sanguine wishes of the founders of this 
establishment must be more than realized ; its rate, in progress and advance- 
ment in prosperity, is rapid beyond the most flattering anticipation. At the 
annual meeting, held at the usual time (tlie beginning of last month,) 
in the Theatre of the Royal Institution, a most gratifying report was read, 
from which we select the few following brief, but volume-speaking parti- 
culars — "For the year 1827 the receipts were but £4,079; for the last year, 
1830, they came to £15,806, and, all expenses paid, there remains in the hands 
of the treasurer, a balance in favour of the Society, amounting to £776 6*. lOd 
The number of visitors to the garden, during the last year, was 224,715, and 
to the museum 14,323. The number of members too, or fellows, (including 
many ladies,) belonging to the Society, has increased very considerably within 
the year-: they reckoii 1814 at present. And in conclusion, we may add another 
pleasing circumstance, — Lord Stanley has been elected the new President, to 
succeed the Marquis of Landsdown, resigned. 
RURAL AFFAIRS. 
To ExrEHMiNATE DocKS AND DANDELIONS. The Dandelion is a most trou- 
blesome weed, in grass-plats and gravel walks. — To eradicate them thoroughly 
from pleasure grounds or pastures, cut them off below tlie surface with a knife, 
and fill the?iole with salt. 
To Destroy Thistles, Fern, and Coltsfoot. "Having once a pasture 
field" says a correspondent in the Country Times, "that seemed one entire 
bed of common Thistles, and having occasion to carry manure across it, to 
another field, I observed all the Thistles completely killed, wherever the carts 
went; I therefore set to, and rolled the whole field with a cast-iron roller, 
once in the latter end of May; and twice in the beginning of June. The field 
has been free from Thistles ever since. The expense was only 3s. per acre. 
Fern and Coltsfoot I have exterminated in the same way. 
HORTICULTURE. 
Charcoal Dust. — A writer in tlie "Gardener's Magazine" asserts, that si.x 
years' experience lias convinced him tiiat charcoal dust is a remedy for grubs and 
iiiouldiness in onions ; and he has repeatedly proved, that it efiectualiy prevents 
• he clubbing in the roots of cabbages and cauliflowers. 
