Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853

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Dahlias at Surrey show

Drainage discussion

Evergreens at Antwerp, effect of the winter on

Gomphrena amaranthus

Grass land, to improve

Ground nuts

Gymnopsis uniserialis

Henderson's (Messrs. E. G.) nursery

Hop mould

India, climate of (with engraving)

Leaves of the ash tree

Leschenaultia formosa

Manure, saw-dust as, by Mr. Mackenzie

Manuring, liquid

Martin Doyle

Milk preserving, by Mr. Symington

Newcastle Farmers' Club

Nuts, ground

Onions, by Mr. Symons

Orchard houses

Pig breeding farm, by Mr. Hulme

Pine wool, by M. Seemann

Plants, variegated, by Mr. Mackenzie

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Plums, Dowling's

Potato sets, dried, by Mr. Goodiff

Radish, Black Spanish

Reaping machines

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1

Fuller might have quoted the Greek proverb, Τύχη τέχνης ἔστερξε καὶ τέχνη τύχης.

2

The seal of the vicars of Southwell, ann. 1262, had in its circumference the words "Commune sigillum Vicariorum Suuell."—Vid. Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, North Muskham, ed. 1796, vol. iii. p. 156.

3

In Monumenta Historica Britannica the passage reads "Quia Maun prius vocabatur." In a note from another MS. the word is spelt Mauun.—Ed.

4

His first appointment, as minister of the Gospel, was at Kirkstead Chapel.

5

The Petromyzon by attaching itself to a stone forms a drill, by which it furrows the shoal for the deposit of its spawn.

6

Pronounced Cawcote.