BOTANY AS APPLIED TO VETERINARY SCIENCE, 38? 
least five years, then, and not till then, can they have the 
remotest chance of success. During this stay amongst the 
people, they will have an opportunity of promoting education, 
I would earnestly warn all young men, prior to embarking, to 
look well to the future, and to make themselves certain of 
having funds to enable them to wait whilst they are opening 
the eyes of the farmers. No practitioner would hail with 
greater delight than I should the day wffien the millions are 
enlightened in these matters. 
Messrs. Editors, I will conclude by placing before you a 
query. The following question was put to me the other day 
in Dublin, by a physician—“Suppose I sell this mare with 
the following warranty :— ( She is sound in wind, sight , and 
limb? could she be returned to me if the purchaser dis¬ 
covered a large sinus in the groin, believed to be by me (the 
physician) a psoas abscess?” 
[In this case, as in numerous others relating to the sound¬ 
ness of horses, the correctness of the opinion on the law of 
warranty must rest on the time which had elapsed between 
the sale and the discovery of the disease. In the above case 
of abscess, the animal would, without doubt, be held to be 
unsound, unless a sufficient period had intervened to have 
given rise to the malady.] 
BOTANY AS APPLIED TO VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
By W. Watson, M.R.C.V.S., Rug%, 
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(Continued from p. 259.) 
Having given a description of the general characters of 
the natural order “ Crucifera,” we will now proceed to con¬ 
sider some of the more important plants belonging to it. 
In doing so, none will be found occupying a more con¬ 
spicuous position as an article of food for animals than the 
turnip . No plant probably has received greater attention from 
the agriculturist, and in none, perhaps, have his efforts been 
more crowned with success. To describe all the varieties of 
this plant, which Rave been brought into cultivation, would 
fill a volume, each having its admirers, as yielding a large 
supply of valuable food. I shall therefore be content with 
giving a brief description of the botanical characters, &c., ot 
the two original plants from which most, if not ail, the varie- 
