ANBURY. 
of shell deposits, is not recorded, and possibly | 
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once draining, tilling, and manuring. A general 
was not known to even the parties who applied | law of the controlling providence of God over all 
and tested it. Yet if one variety of marl were 
proved to be of the most decided efficacy, another 
variety might be perfectly powerless or even a 
little noxious; and hence the want of a chemical 
analysis and proper nomenclature of marls, com- 
pletely prevents the judicious imitation of any 
successful use of them either against anbury or 
for any other specific and difficult purpose. Com- 
mon salt has been much recommended, and ap- 
pears to have, in various instances, been employed 
with decided success; but it is very liable to be 
exhibited in such overdose as to be temporarily 
poisonous to the soil, and, even when adminis- 
tered in the best possible proportion, is probably 
an imperfect Serena Dry hydro-sulphuret of 
_ lime, such as may easily be obtained at the pub- 
| lic gas-works, has been recommended, in the form 
of a slight dressing of the surface soil, as a pre- 
ventive fof both anbury and the attacks of the 
turnip-flea. Air. George W. Johnson, who sug- 
gests this last remedy, says, “I entertain this 
opinion of its efficacy in preventing the occur- 
rence of the ambury, from an instance when it 
| was applied to some broccoli,—ignorantly grown 
upon a bed where cabbages had as ignorantly 
been endeavoured to be produced in successive 
crops. These had invariably failed from the oc- 
currence of the ambury; but the broccoli was 
uninfected. The only cause for this escape that 
I could trace, was, that just previously to plant- 
ing, a little of the hydro-sulphuret of lime had 
been dug in. This is a very fetid, powerful com- 
pound,/ When dry lime purifiers are employed 
at gas-works, it may be obtained in the state of 
a, dry powder ; but when a liquid mixture of lime 
and water is employed, the hydro-sulphuret can 
only be had in the form of a thick cream. Of 
the dry hydro-suphuret I would recommend 
eight bushels per acre to be spread regularly by 
hand upon the surface, after the turnip seed is 
sown, and before harrowing. If the liquid is 
employed, I would recommend thirty gallons of 
it to be mixed with a sufficient quantity of earth 
or ashes, to enable it to be spread over an acre 
in a similar manner. For cabbages, twelve bush- 
els, of forty-five gallons per acre, would not pro- 
bably be too much, spread upon the surface, and 
turned in with the spade or last ploughing. To 
effect the banishment of the turnip-flea, I should 
like a trial to be made of six or eight bushels of 
the dry, or from twenty-two to twenty-eight gal- 
lons of the liquid hydro-sulphuret, being spread 
over the surface immediately after the sowing, 
harrowing, and rolling are finished. Although I 
specify these quantities as those I calculate most 
correct, yet, in all experiments, it is best to try 
various proportions. Three or four bushels may 
|| be found sufficiexft; perhaps twelve or even twenty 
may not be too much.” But the grand and only 
really efficient preventive of anbury, as we for- 
merly hinted, is thorough cultivation as to at 
agriculture, is that careless cultivation is pun- 
ished by eventual devastation and sterility, and 
that wise and sedulous cultivation is followed by 
soundness and luxuriance; this law associates 
the reflection and labour of man with his well- 
being, subordinates his enlightened toil to his 
happiness and prosperity, and comprises all the 
multitudinous influences which bear upon the 
physical history of a farm ; and, in few instances, 
does it operate more conspicuously than in those, 
like the anbury, in which the ill-directed and in- 
adequate labours of the sloven are utterly dis- 
comfited by the silent and almost invisible anta- 
gonism of one of the tiniest of insects.— Stephens’ 
Book of the Farm.—Kirby and Spence’s Introduc- 
tion to Entomology—Marsham’s Entomologia Bro- 
tannica— Paper of G. W. Johnson, Lsq., in No. 
39 of Q. Journal of Agr—Paper by Mr. Stephens 
m No.4 of Q. Journal of Agr—Papers of fev. 
Jas. Farquharson, Mr. M. Birnie, and Mr. John 
Abbay in Transactions of Highland Society. Pa- 
pers of Mr. George Sinclair, Arthur Young, Esq. 
Messrs. D. and A. Macdougall, Rev. Geo. Jenyns, 
and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., in Memoirs of Cal. 
Horticultural Soctety. 
ANCHUSA. See Atkanet. 
ANCHYLOSIS. A disease in animals’ joints, 
consisting of ossification of the ligaments which 
unite bone to bone. Few horses which were 
overworked in their youth, or strained or sud- 
denly pulled upon their haunches in maturer age, 
escape anchylosis in some of the bones of the back 
or the loins; and all horses which have, to any 
considerable extent, became anchylosed, are un- 
pleasant to ride, turn with difficulty in their stall, | 
are reluctant either to lie down or to rise, have 
a singular straddling action, and are popularly 
said to be broken-backed or chinked in the chine. 
ANDROMEDA. A large genus of ligneous, 
evergreen, ornamental plants, of the heath family. 
About forty species are known to botanists ; twen- 
ty-six species have been introduced to Great Bri- 
tain ; and about twenty well-established varieties, 
as well as the twenty-six typal species, are cul- 
tivated in our shrubberies and gardens. Most 
are neat and even handsome plants; and all grow 
naturally in either bogs or alpine districts, and 
require peat earth and a moist situation. The 
Jamaica species is a stove-plant ; and the Japan 
species requires the greenhouse ; but all the other 
introduced species, as well as their varieties, are 
hardy. The wild rosemary variety of the marsh 
species grows wild in the turf bogs of Britain, | 
and is the only indigenous plant of the genus; 
the globe-flowered variety of the box-leaved spe- 
cies is a native of Russia; two other varieties of 
that species are natives of Newfoundland; the 
moss-like species, Andromeda hypnoides, is a na- 
tive of Lapland; the Jamaica and the Japan spe- 
cies are natives of the countries whose names 
they bear; and all the other species are natives 
