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his keeper, to whom the animal was much attached. During his last illness he 
was lying in a position which evidently aggravated his sufferings ; twenty men* 
with strong ropes, and the power of a capstan, were found necessary to move 
him into a better position. M. Blainville is dissecting the body; and M. 
Werner, a painter attached to the museum, is delineating the pathological 
peculiarities which the operation exposes. 
In this case the French u do-nothing policy” appears to have been followed. 
We should take it as a favour, if any of our French readers would inform us 
how many eminent veterinary surgeons “ watched” the progress of the disease! 
BOTANY. 
3. Beet-root Sugar. —The manufacture of sugar from the Beet-root extends 
every year in France. An eminent French sugar-speculator has attempted the 
manufacture on a considerable extent in London; but it appears that success is 
here less complete, on account of the greater frigidity of our climate. 
4. Georgian Clover-seed. —A new and highly prolific seed has lately been 
introduced to the notice of British agriculturists. It was imported from Buckhara, 
Georgia, in which country the plant grows to the height of about twelve feet. 
From its stalk a kind of hemp is prepared by the natives, which they prefer to 
any other sort. Should the plant succeed in this country, its cultivation will 
render us independent of Continental importation of Clover-seed; for it is asserted 
that a single plant will produce an average supply of 300,000 seeds. The 
Georgian Clover should be sown in the month of April. 
5. The Lapacho-tree. —The Lapacho is not only the finest but the most 
magnificent of all trees. English Oak is very fine, but never to be compared 
to Lapacho. From the solid trunk of one of these trees a Portuguese scooped 
out at Villa-Real a canoe, which brought down to Assumption a hundred bales 
of yerba (that is 22,500 lbs. of Paraguay tea), several hides made up into balls 
and filled with molasses, a load of deals, seventy packages of tobacco, and eight 
Paraguay sailors to manage the three masts and sails of the large, but yet 
elegantly scooped-out trunk of the Lapacho-tree. Of this tree are constructed 
vessels which, when fifty years old, may still be called young. Their frame is 
not shaken, nor is their constitution debilitated by all the bumps they receive on 
the sand-banks of the Parana, nor by the searching rays of a tropical sun, nor by 
the “ even down pours,” as the Scotch have it, of tropical rains. 
6. Management of Gardens in Persia. —Many owners of gardens near cities 
in Caubul, are accustomed to charge a certain sum to visitors, who are allowed to 
enter and eat fruit a discretion. The Persians, who must invent a joke upon 
every thing, declare that at Caubul the eaters of fruit are weighed on entering 
and on coming out of the gardens, and are charged for the difference; and they 
