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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. k : 
THE harvest is in general finished, and has been for sometime past in early districts. The 
fineness of the weather, and plesty of hands, contributed much to expedition and « oa 
The crops of Wheat were good ; Barley and Oats much better than were expected. Beans and 
Peas very indifferent ; a total failure of the latter was experienced in some courtics. In 
England and Wales, Wheat averages per quarter 71s. 2d.—-Barley, 58s. 7d.—Oats, 29s. 3d. 
Clover for seed, and secand crop for hay, either mown or ready for the scythe, yield a 
good swath. 
There is much land already sown with winter targs, and rye, and many acres of wheat 
stubbles turned in and sown with turnips, as spring feed for ewes and lambs. The lands fal-. 
Jowed this. summer for wheat have been well managed, are In a-state of great forwardness, 
and the sowing already commenced. Eddishes and the pastures look well, affording a good 
bite. But the too general failure of turnips, in the princ' ‘pal turnip counties, where the crops 
have suffered from the mildew, and the recent reduction of prices in the fat-cattle marker, 
have essentially affected the sale of lean s‘ock, at the late fairs, which although abuncantly 
supplied with Welch, Scotch, and Irish beasts, shewn in very fair condition, experience d 
dull sales : the graziers, having suffered muci: loss in feeding this summer, are slow and cau- 
tious in making purchases for the next. In Smithfield market, Beef fetches from 3s. to 4s, per 
stone of 81b.; Mutton, from 3s. 4d. to 4s.6d. Pork, from 4s. 8d. to 5s. 8d 
Weaned foals and cart colts sell weli, as do small porkers. Butter and cheese are much 
Yower at the late fairs. ' 
_Hop-picking i is going on with great spirit, and the crop turns out better than was.expected, 
The winter crops o: ‘potatoes promise well, both for quantity and qualify. Apples, plums, Keo 
have been sent to market in great abundance. 
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MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. 
WE have not received either the Botan#t's Repository, or the Paradisus Londinensis fox 
this month, consequently our present Report can contain no account of these publica- 
tions. 
In the Botanical Magazine we have 1. Anthericum revolutum; a Native of the Cape of 
Good Hope, and well distinguished from either species in this genns, by the segments ithe 
Corolla being : rolled back. 2. Morza bituminosa ; another Cape plant, very nearly allied to 
Morea Viscaria, and which Mr. Gawler seems to preserye as a distinct species, on! y In com- 
pliance with the opinion of other botanists. The Author takes the present opportunity of ac- 
knowledging an errer he fell into with respect to the filaments of the last-named plant, which 
he formerly described as connate, whereas he finds from examination, that they are really 
distinct. 3. Albuca physodes. Also a native of the Cape, but Mr. Gawler dogs not think 
Willdenow justified in setting down Anthericum mar ginatum, of Thunberg, as a synonym of. 
this plant. 4. Moraga tenuis. The southern extremity of Africa is more prolific in bule ’ 
bous plants, than any other known part of the globe. This has been considered as a variety of 
tricuspis, by Jacquin,’ nor does Mr. Gawler seem to think them really distinct. 5. Linum 
bypericifolium, We have here another figure of this newly introduced species, of which the 
Jast month afforded us two. A different cuitivation probably occasioned a variety in the habit 
of Mr. Loddiges plants, and those of Mr. Beil, from whoée collection the figure in the Para- 
disus Londinensis, and that in the Botanist’s repository were both taken: the present one 
gives us more the idea of an’ Alpine plant, being much less branched, and the flowers more 
compact. With respect to the comparative merit of the drawings, indisputably the palm must 
be given to the pencil of Mr. Edwards. While the Botanical Magazine shall continue to 
possess exclusively, the talents of this excellent artist, it certainly need fear no riyal. It seems 
doubtful from Dr. Sims’s account, whether this be not in reality a mere variety of Linum 
hirsutum of Linneus, or at least of Clusius’s plant, which is given as 2 synonym of that species. 
‘Botanists seem to have had great difficulty in determining the natural order to which Linum 
belongs; Linnzus classed it with his Gruing ; Jussieu, hesitatingly added to it his order of. 
Caryopbylle#, to which latter class, Mr. Salisbury, who has perhaps studied the natural or- 
ders more than any botanist in this country, seems more determinately to unite it, and yet 
afterwards acknowledges some difficulties, which lead him to doubt if it belonz to any natural 
order at present established at all, ‘Tous, perhaps from fooking at these matters too super- 
ficially,the affinity of Linum with the caryophylle@, does not appear very striking, and we ima+ 
gine that we can discover more points of resemblance, especially in regard to the structure of 
the seeds, with some of the plants collected by Linnzus in his order of Gruine, as with Ovxalis 
gnd Fagonia more: particularly, though the latter is referred by Jussieu to his Rutacee. Linum 
has also some characters which approximate it to the natural order of Malwacee ; the fila- 
ments are frequently united at the base, and although less numerous, are with respect to the 
styles similarly arranged 5 in the present species too, the petals fail off united by their claws, 
and the styles are grown into one- body at the lower part; and the abundance-of insipid mu- 
_cilage, which the seeds afford in this genus, shows an approximation iti the qualities ; Lut the 
want of the curled embryo sig it distinct. 6 Cardivspermum Hal: cacabum. The chief 
Spat curiosity 
