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1803. ] 
_ A’ new edition of Mr. Jounes’s 
Tranflation of Froiffar€ is printing in oc- 
tavo, a portion of which’ wiil be pubhithed 
in the courfe of the fummer. 
Dr. S. H. Jackson has in the prefs 
‘An Inquiry into the Nature of the Dif- 
eale which fo lately prevailed’ at Gibral- 
tar, with Remarks on epidemic Fevers in 
general. 
Dr. HARTY will’publithyin'the courte. 
of the prefent month, a work. entitled, 
Obfervations on the-fimple Dyfentery and 
its Combinations ; containing a review of 
the moit celebrated» authors who have 
written on that fubject, and likewife an 
inveftigation into the fource of contagion 
in that and feme other difeafes. ea 
A trantlation of WiLLDENOW’s Prin- 
ciples of Botany and : vegetable Phyfio- 
logy is in the prefs. tae ’ 
A new edition of the whole works of 
Archbifhop Letcaron, in fix volumes 
oftavo, will be {peedily publifhed. 
The Socrety for bettering the Condi- 
tion of the Poor have in the prefs their 
‘Twenty-fixth Report, which is expected 
to contain fome very interefting articles. 
Meffis. Srorer and Greicwill hhortly 
publifh a werk entitled BLoomriztp E£l- 
luftrated;: including all the local fcenery 
noticed in'the poems of that author, ac- 
companied with Defcriptions; and Anec- 
dotes written by Mr. BLOOMFIELD. 
‘The late Dr. Gagnet‘r’s Zoonomia, 
or popular Le&tures on the Laws of orga- 
nic Life in Health and Difeafes, is in the 
courle of delivery to the fubferibers. 
The Rev. J. Evans, well. known to 
the public by his numerous publications: 
for youth, is preparing a new edition of 
bis Juveniie Toarift through Great Bri- 
tain. 
A fecond Edition of THomson’s Sea- 
fins, with the ‘ufcful accompaniment of 
notes and head-lines, by the fame gentle- 
man, is likewite in the prefs. ° 
' A new edition of the works of that 
-celebrated American patriot, Dr. PRaNK- 
LIN, confifting of his Life, by himielf, 
together with his philofophical and other 
papers, will fhortly be publifhed, in pe- 
rivdical numbers, forming, when com- 
plete, two haodfome volumes in octavo. 
Mr. Bicuanp, who has announced a 
ColleStion of Effays to be publifhed by 
fubfcription, is likewife engaged in pre- 
paring for the pre(s a new edition of his 
much-admired Letters.on.Hiftory. 
Mr. MarsHALuL, in a new ‘edition, 
now inthe prefs, of his valuable book on 
va . 
,fevering labors-of botanifts: - But fungi, 
Literary and Philofephical Intelligence. 587 
the Rural Economy of the Wet ef Eng» 
Jand, will introduce fome Obfervations on 
the Blight or Mildew of Wheat — 
‘* The caufe of the difeafe, fays Mr. Mar- 
fhall, in the country in which 1 had the beff 
opportunity of obferving it (Caermarthenthire 
in 1804), appeared, very evidently, to: proceed 
from fome cold rains, which fell about the 
middle of Auguft. Before that tme, wheat- 
crops in general, looked healthy, and were 
beginning to change to a bright color, Burt 
prefently after a few cold wet days, the malady 
became obvious to the naked eye. ‘The ftraw 
loft its {mooth, varnifhed furface; being occu~ 
pied by innumerable fpecks; which changed, 
in a few days, in lefs than a week, to a dark 
or blackifh color; giving the ftraw a dufky 
appearance, A gentleman .of Caermarthen- 
fhire, who is attentive to agricultural Concerns, 
is of opinion, that this deftructive difeafe may 
be -preyented, by fowing old feed; namely, 
wheat.of the preceding year’s growth, in'tead 
of new wheat; agreeably to the practice of the’ 
Cotfwold Hills of Clecefterfhire. Pam much 
inclined to think, that, by fowing early, agree- 
ably to that practice (fee Glocefterfhire, Ii- 
5X), this fatal dfeafe might® frequently be 
avoided; early ripe crops being, from all the 
obfervations that £ have hitherto made, the 
leaft fubieét to its baleful eect Corn which 
ripens under the hot fummer fun of By is not 
fa liable to cald chilling rains, as that which 
“remains unmatured, until the fun begin to lofe 
its power, and the nights to emcréafe in length 
‘and coolnefs. _A-certain preventive of this 
difafter would be a difcovery worth millions to 
the country. Until this be made, let the grower 
of wheat, not. only endeavour to fow early 5 
but let him Jook narrowly to his crop, during 
the critical time of the filling of the grain; 
and’ whenever he may perceive it 'to be {mitten 
with the difeafe, let him lofe no time in eutting 
it: fuffering itto lie on the ftubble, until the 
{trav be firm and crifp enough, to te fet up ia 
fheayes, without adhering in the binding places 
—allowing it to remain in the field, unul the 
grain fhall have received the nutriment which 
the firaw may be able toimpart. Where wheat 
has been grown on “ lammas land,’? and the 
ground obliged to be cleared by the firft o: Au- 
guft, crops have been known to be cut, “* as 
green as grafs,’® and tobe carried off and ipread 
upon grafs land, to drys’* Yet the grain has 
been found to mature ; and ‘always to afford a 
fine-fkinneéd beautifn) fample, “Raygrafs that 
is cut, even while im bloffom, is wel) known ta 
mature its feeds, withthe. fap that’ is lodged 
in the ftems. Hence, there ismothing to fear, 
from cutting wheat or-other, corn, before the 
ftraw be ripe. That the opetatidn of this 
.difeafe is carsied on bythe fungus tribe, “ev- 
per- 
it is 
equally evident, are an effect, not the caufle of 
the difeafe... They are the-vermin of the moi 
dently “appears, fromthe ingenious ana 
” perfe& vegetables; ‘and. faftenon them, whe- 
ther in a dead, or-in difeafed, ftate ; ‘but tel- 
dom; I believe; “white they are in full ph 
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