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eent.—Fast India Dock, 1251. per cent.-—-Imperial- cae: 121. per cent. preminm.—Aj- 
bion Assurance, 1] per ceot. premium —Rock Life Assurance, 7s. p=r share premium.— 
Southwark Porter Brewery, 10) co 1%! 10s per cent. premium — he tollowing Navigable 
Canal Shares. were seid by Mr. scoct. at Garras way’s. by order of the Court of Chancery — 
The Ashtonand Oldham Canal at 91! —Manchester Bolton anc Bury, 501.—Ellesmere, 531. 
e— Worcester and Birmingham, 331. to 3Al including che new calls paid,—-Hudders field, Als 
o—~ Brecon and Abergavenny, 341 --Union, 311. for 911. pe share paide 
MONTIILY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
N strong clay soils the wheat crops have suff. red much from the prevalence of dry wea- 
ther, and the varley and oats, owing io the continuance of rain in the spring, did not ad- 
mit of early sowing; and when sown, the growth of the tender plant was consideraply checked 
by the cold and chilling winds, w Heh made those crops, in many places, thin,’ scanty, aad 
Gwarfish, and the ear and straw of the wheat very short. Beans and pew are, in general, 
€qually indifferent crops, and in some few places have totally failed, and the Bysund J is in pre= 
paration tor wheat. 
However, it must be observed, that. en rich loams,. sandy and flinty satls, the wepter and 
spring crops ef corn are in general very good and promising: the whee it stands well, and the 
barley and oatss- rong and h savy Th ve average price of Wheat per quarter, sbrongnene Eng- 
dand and Wales, is 73s. Gd.3 Barley S7s3 Oats 28s. 1id. 
The sowing of turnips hes. been atte ded with various success ; in some situations the early 
sown crop stands well; in others, tey have partially or totally tailed, and the- work nas been» 
to be done over again The pastures .rom the dryness of the season, are burnt up; and the 
eddishes are in « state of great backwardness, which has occasioned a great reduc:ion in the 
prices of lean stock, brought in immense numbers to the late great northern. fair, where 
store-sheep were much lower ; and wel! br:d lambs have been sold irom 251. to 301. per cent. 
cheaper than last year. Young: ‘res horsesare still dear, and much in request; inferior ones 
are very low. In Smithfield market, Beer fetches from 3s. 10d to 4s. 10d per ; tone Mut- 
ton irem4s to 5s 
The hay harvest has been well get together, and proves large in bull, and of a good 
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In Sarre y and Essex some rye and peas have been already cut, and the harvest is in a state 
of teat for wardne £88, wth plenty o hands. 
ihe wool trade is very brisk, and fine wool maintains last year’s prices. Long wool rather 
Jower. 
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MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. 
y E. shall proceed to give a short account of the periodical publications on Botany, mene 
tioned in our last communic:tion. The Botanical Magazine tor July contains 
1. A new species oi Menyanthes from New Sonrti Wales, under Dr Solander’s name of exazd- 
tata, which has a near affini ity with M. ovata, and belungs to the divison of the genus, which 
the French botanists have called Villarsia, but which Dr. sims has not thought fit to adopt 5 
nor indeed do we think it was at ali necessary to separate the species o: so small a genus, 
Merely on account of tve seeds in some. or rather in one oi them being attached to the centre 
of the valves of tie capsule, and in otbers to their margins.-- 2. Iberis cikata, a small al- 
pine hardy plant, oi no great beauty, but which mey serve among others to decorate rock- 
work, or an old wall . Chorizema zanum, one of the New Holland papilionaceous plants, 
having ten distinct Efe 3 and is perhaps the smallest shrub known. The leaves of this 
plant more resemble those of Holly than the one cailed from this circumstance idicifolam by 
M. Labiliard-ere, an ingonvenience, wich unto-tunately often aitends the naming plants 
from any particular quality mew species being irequently afterwards discovered, which pos- 
sess that quality in a still more eminent degree, and thus a name at first highly appropriate 
is rendered of no avail for the purpose of distinc-ion : another inconvenience is eften round 
to arise from such names being*taken rom quaitties that are not essential, by which it not 
unfrequently happens that a piant named Airsuta, or acuieata, and so on, strall, when culti- - 
vated. usually ogcur without hairs or t.orns. 5. Morzea co/lina, a rare Cape bulb, of which, 
according to My. Ker. there are severai varieties ; three o° them are particularly specified, 
the first with sniall and brighter red flowers than the second here figured, anda third with 
yellow flowers, figu: ‘ed by facquin. 6. Crinum americanum, Mr. Ker bas framed a sew 
generic character ior this genus (the Bulbine of Gzrtner, whe applied the name of Crinum to 
the Agapantaus 6f Hoitus Kéwensis), and very properly remarks, that, it is not to be dis- 
tinguished from the tubular fowcred Amaryllises, except by the more regular expanston of 
tne sezivents of is ‘corolla, trat it approaches the genus Hemanthus by means ot H/ multi- 
forus; aud it only wants the crown in the centre o7 the flower, the nectarium of Linnus, to 
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