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WM. TURQUAND, Stock and Exchange Broker, No. 9, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill.

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MONTHLY MAG. No. 183.

MONTHLY

MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

THE Wheat crops of both the late and early fowings have come on well fince our last, and at prefent in many places quite cover over the furface of the ground. They, perhaps, never looked more favourably, in general, at this period of the year. The winter Barleys and Ryes are also pretty much in the fame fituation.

The Winter Tare and Rape crops in different diftricts have likewise a very fine appearance at this time.-In England and Wales, Wheat averages per quarter, 94s.; Barley, 46s. 4d.; and Oats, 34s. 8d.

The late turnip crops have alfo afforded a large fupply of both green and other food for the fupport of fheep and cattle ftock, during the latter part of the prefent month, and have been particularly favourable for the lambing ewes in many fituations.

The unufual fineness of the feafon, through most of the month, has afforded a fine opportunity of putting in fpring crops in complete perfection, and great breadths of ground have been already fown with Oats, fpring Wheats, and other fpring crops, in the beft poffible ftate of preparation.

Great breadths of early Potatoes have likewife been fet in some districts in the early part of the month.

The weather has likewife been extremely favourable for the making of new, and repairing the old fences, and much work of this kind has been well accomplished.

The bufinefs of ploughing was, perhaps, never better performed than in the prefent feafon, the land having broken up remarkably well.

The Tup ftock, as well as that of Cattle, have done hitherto extremely well: the Ewes have lambed down very well, in a vast number of inftances, double lambs having been produced.

The uncommon warmth and fineness of the Fruit-trees into much too forward a state, to them.

month have, in various cafes, brought the expect any very great produce of fruit from The sales of both fat and lean ftock feem rather brifker.-In Smithfield market, Beef fetches from 4s. 6d. to 5s. 6d. per ftone of 81b.; Mutton, from 4s. 8d. to 5s. 10d.; and Pork, from 6s. to 7s.

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In the above market, Hay fetches from 61. 6s. to 61. 10s. per load; Clover, from 71, to 71. 7s.; and Straw, from 21, to 21. 5s.

NATURALIST's MONTHLY REPORT.

FEBRUARY.
Thawing Month.

The rivers swell

Of bonds impatient, sudden from the hills,
O'er rocks and woods, in broad brown cataracts,
A thousand snow-fed torrents shoot at once.

FOR the last thirty years, it is not remembered that the fresh-water floods have been so tremendous as during the present season. They have been known higher, but by no means of such long continuance. Sonie houses have had the water covering the rooms on the ground floor, for near a month, without intermission; and it was not till about the 15th of February, that it began at all to subside. On the 12th, and 14th, we had some heavy hail-storms, accompanied with violent gusts of wind. On the latter day, I heard several distant claps of thunder. About the 21st the weather became settled, and continued so, with a few occasional showers, to the end of the month.

February 1. Garden peas begin to shoot out of the ground.

February 2. A small sycamore tree in a garden is now in full leaf. This is a singular circumstance, as the same tree has not been removed since its leafing last year, which was at the usual time.

February 13. A skate's egg, containing a live young one, was this day picked up on the seashore.

Op sunny banks in the fields the pilewort (Ranunculus ficaria) is in flower: and in the gardens, snow-drops, crocuses, mezerium, and hepaticas. Daffodils, narcissusee, and hyacinths, are beginning to shoot up their flower buds.

February 19. We have indications of the reviving year from insects as well as plants. Several species of ptinus begin to come abroad, the lady cow (coccinella septem punctata) and some of the kinds of cicada. I'have not yet heard the death-watch, (ptinus tessellatus); in the course, however, of a week or ten days these insects, I expect, will commence their beating.

Daffodils

Daffodils and primroses are in flower. The blackbirds and thrushes sing. Partridges begin to pair.

A turtle, weighing fourteen pounds and a half, was seen floating in the sea, near the rocks of Christchurch head, by a man who succeeded in getting it out. The animal was purchased by the keeper of the hotel at Christchurch; and a party of gentlemen had a dinner on the occasion. I am inclined to suppose, that this turtle, which was of the species testudo mydas of Linnæus, had been drifted by the late storms from some distant sea to our shores; and not, as some persons believed, that it had been washed overboard from some West-India ship. It was of a size too small to be of any value for sale; and it is known that on various parts of the southwestern coasts of France, turtles of the present species, have not unfrequently been known to approach the shores.

February 20. The bear's foot (helleborus fœtidus), the gooseberry and currant trees, are in flower. The leaves of the weeping-willow appear.

The yellow-hammer and wood-lark sing. The green wood-pecker begins to make its harsh

scream.

February 21. This, on the whole, was a fine day. I found on the sea beach a carp, weighing about half a pound, which had been cast ashore by the tide. It had burst in spawning; and had been carried by the fresh-water floods into the sea. It was still alive.

February 25. A very large kind of common gnats (culex pipiens) which bite very severely, are flying about in small numbers, in houses, and other buildings.

February 27. In the evening there was one of the most beautiful halos round the moon that I ever beheld. The prismatic colours were peculiarly bright. I of course expected that bad weather would follow, but this was not the case.

February 28, was, in almost every respect, a complete spring day.

Gossamer floated in

the air in considerable quantity. The larks, blackbirds, and thrushes were singing in almost as great numbers as in the middle of summer. Three kinds of butterflies were flying about, viz. The large white cabbage butterfly (papilio brassica), the peacock butterfly (papilio io) and nettle butterfly (papilio urtica). Several of the spring scarabei were likewise flying about the roads and the dusty places. The woodbine, elder, lilac, and bramble, are all putting forth their leaves; and on a few branches of hawthorn, I remarked that the leaf-buds were turning green. The sweet-scented violets are in flower in gardens; and the flowers of the pilewort (rønunculus ficaria) now cover almost every sunny bank.

Hampshire.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.

Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of February, to the 24th of March, 1809, inclusive, Four Miles N.N.W. of St. Paul's.

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Only on three days since our last report, has there been any rain, and on these a very trifling quantity, we shall accordingly defer our report of it till the next month.

The mean height of the thermometer, not withstanding several warm days, is less than it was for the last month. For the present it is 429.536. That of the barometer is much higher, being last month something less than 29.3 inches, and the present 29.886: the last was accordingly a very wet month, this has been a remarkably dry one The barometer has in several instances risen and fallen for two or three days together, without any change with regard to rain. From the 21st, to this day, (25th) it has gradually fallen, and we have had during the last night, several hours of very gentle rain, of which the gardens seem to have stood in need. More may probably be looked for: since it is a maxim with all.observers of the weather, "In fair weather, when the mercury falls low, and continues to fall for three or four days before the rain comes on, then much wet may be expected."

The wind has been variable, blowing about 14 or 15 days from the easterly points; and about as many days may be reckoned very brilliant; the remainder have been pretty equally divided between what are denominated fair and cloudy, including the three in which there was some rain.

Astronomical

ASTRONOMICAL ANTICIPATIONS.

The present month is remarkable for the occurrence of several very curious celestial phænomena. The change, or new moon, will be on the 14th, at 564 minutes past seven, in the evening; and the opposition, or full moon, on the morning of the 50th, at 19 minutes before one. On the morning of the 4th, there will be an occultation by the moon of the v, a star of the fourth magnitude in the constellation of the scorpion. The immersion will take place at the bright edge of the moon, at 34 minutes past two, apparent time; and the emersion will be at the dark edge of the moon 1h. 12m afterwards. At the commencement of the phænomenon, the star will be 34 minutes, and at the end 24 minutes, to the south of the moon's centre. At the time of the above occultation, a well-regulated clock will be 3m. 133. before a true sun dial. On the 14th, there will be a return of the visible solar eclipse of April 3, 1791; but happening, this month, in the night-time, it will, of course, be invisible to Great Britain. This eclipse will be central and annular, at noon day, corresponding to our 35 minutes past eight, evening, in that part of the globe having 74 degrees north latitude, and 128°52′ west longitude from Greenwich. There will not be a return of the above eclipse visible in Britain, before May 6, 1845. On the 29th will take place a notable eclipse of the moon, visible from beginning to end to Great Britain. The circumstances of the eclipse will be as below : Meridian of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich.

Beginning of the Eclipse,

End of the Eclipse, April 30,

Clock Time. 11h. 2m. 37s. night 12 32 29

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11h. 5m. 28s. night
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Digits eclipsed on moon's south limb, 10°29′45′′. This is the largest eclipse of the moon that will happen before the great total one of February 15, 1812; for at the time of the greatest obscuration not less than seven-eights of the lu nar disk will be immerged into the earth's shadow. Mercury will be in his aphelion, and at his greatest maritine elongation, on the 1st, when his angular distance from the sun will not be less than 27°45', a quantity very rarely exceeded by this planet. But the great rapidity with which 28 degrees of the sign Pisces, where the planet is, rises, will prevent his being seen at all with the naked eye in our high northern latitude. Venus will appear remarkably bright and splendid this month. On the 1st, her angular distance from the sun will will be 44°59'; on the 15th, 40°35′, and on the 30th, 31°7'. The time of her greatest apparent illumination, as it respects the earth, will be on the 18th, when the planet's elongation from the sun is 39°15', according to the theorem of the great Dr. Halley. She may be seen this month with the naked eye in the middle of the afternoon, long before sun-set. planet will make a fine appearance among that remarkable group of faint stars in the neck of On the 2d this beautiful the bull, commonly known by the name of the seven stars, and by the ancients named Pleiades, from their supposed rainy influence on our globe. If it be a clear evening, she will be seen very nearly in conjunction with them, of the third magnitude, the brightest of the seven. The conjunction taking place on the morning of the Sd, at about three quarters past our three o'clock, long after the planet is set, will consequently be invisible to Great Britain. Throughout the month Venus will not set till after eleven. Mars will be up the greater part of the night. On the morning of the 9th, at our half past one, he will be in opposition to the sun, at which time he is nearest to our earth, and consequently appears the brightest. On the morning of the 1st he will come into conjunction with the Virgin's spike, a star of the 1st magnitude, when the planet will be 4° 38' to the north; and on the 17th he will he in conjunction with the & in the Virgin, when their difference of latitude will be only 20 minutes of a degree, the star being to the south. Jupiter will be up in the mornings; but on account of the sun rising soon after him throughout the month, he will not be seen at all by the naked eye. Saturn will be still a morning-star. On the night of the 1st, he rises at one minute past eleven; in the evening of the 15th, at six minutes past ten; and in the evening of the 30th, at six minutes past nine. In this month he will be found in that part of the zodiac, which lies between 3 and 4 degrees of the sign Sagittarius. will be up almost the whole night. On the morning of the 28th, at nine, he will be in opThe Georgium Sidus position to the sun. On the 1st, the difference of longitude of this planet and the a Libra, will be 3o 41'; on the 15th, 4o5; and on the 30th, 4° 52'; the planet in all three cases being about seven minutes to the north of the star.

Erratum In the Astronomical Anticipations for March,

Line 14, for after sunset," read before sunset.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

If the gentleman, under the signature Salam in the Monthly Magazine for March, will send a note to Mr. Meyler, next to the pump room at Bath, addressed to T. C. he shall receive every information concerning the subject of his enquiry.

The Plate announced in the Paper of the Dilletanti Tourist, not being ready in time, is unavoidably deferred till the next month,

No. 184.]

MAY 1, 1809.

[4 of VOL. 27.

"As long as thofe who write are ambitious of making Converts, and of giving to their Opinions a Maximum of "Influence and Celebrity, the most extenfively circulated Mifcellany will repay with the greatest affect the "Curiofity of thofe who read either for Amusement or Inftruction."-JOHNSON,

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

For the Monthly Magazine.

LETTER IVON TEA.

Nec vero terre ferre omnes omnia possunt:
Fluminibus salices, crassisque paludibus alni
Nascuntur, steriles saxosis motibus orni;
Littora myrtetis lætissima: denique apertos
Bacchus amat colles; aquilonem et frigo-
Virg. G. ii. 109.
ra taxi.

FTER the subject of tea had been
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introduced into your twenty-fifth
Volume, page 305, by E. N. and page
518, by Phytophilus, I presented three
letters on this exotic, pages 1, 97, and
201 of your twenty-sixth volume. Feel-
ing then, a reluctance in too often in-
truding upon your readers, on a solitary,
though interesting vegetable, I courted
the assumption of it by some more able
pen; and which indeed was accepted in
page 414, of the same volume, though I
cannot add that my expectations were
fully gratified: I should not, however,
have troubled you with any further re-
marks, had it not been for the botanical
notices of Capel Lofft, esq. which also
have not afforded me that clear infor-
mation, which might have been antici-
pated from this able writer. Hence I
am encouraged to offer a more copious
Instory of it, for the amusement, if not
information, of your readers.

Some account of coffee has been in troduced into your miscellany, vol. xxvii. page 23; and by Capel Lofft, esq. p. 28. In a subsequent number I may presume to trouble you with a few additional remarks upon it, which will probably be the last letter on these beautiful everTJAA-PHILUS. greens, from

London, March 18, 1809.

BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION.
xiii. ORDER

CLASS

1.-POLYANDRIA

MONOGYNIA.

The CALYX.-Perianthium quinque-partire, very small, flat; the segments round, obruse, permanent.

The COROLLA.-The Pitals six, subro

Among some hundred specimens of teaflowers that I have examined, the greatest number consisted of six large petals, and exMONTHLY MAG, No. 184.

tund, or roundish, concave: two exterior, less,
unequal: tour exterior, large, equal, before
they fall off recurvate.

The STAMINA.-The Filaments nume.
rous, filiform; shorter than the corolla.
The Antheras cordate, bilocular.

The PISTIL.-The Germen, three globular bodies joined. The Style simple, at the apex trifid. After the petals and, stamens are fallen off, they part from each other, spread open, increase in length, and wither on the germen.

The Stigmas simple.

The PERICARPIUM.-A Capsule, in the
form of three globular bodies united, trilo-
The SEEDS. Simple, globose, angular
cular, gaping at the top in three directions.
on the inward side.

The TRUNK.t-Ramose, ligneous, round,
the branches alternate, vague, or placed in no
colour, towards the top reddish.
regular order, stiffish, inclining to an ash

The PEDUNCLES.-Axillary, alternate single, curved, uniflorous, in crassate, the peduncies encreafing in thickness, stipulate, the stipula single, subulate, crest alternate, elliptical, obtusely serrate, edges between the teeth recurvate.

The LEAVES.-Apex emarginate, at the

ternally three lesser ones of the same form; considerably, which may account for the however, the number in the flowers vary described this plant on Dr. Hill's authority,) mistake of Dr. Hill and Linnæus, (who who make the green and bohea tea two dis tinct species, giving nine petals to the former, and six to the latter.-See Ameen. Acad. v. vii, p. 248. HA, Exot. i, 22. Kampfer. Cent. i. 3. Hist. de l'Acad. des Scien. 1776. Amanitat. Exot. p. 607. Breyn. Exit. Plant. p. 52.

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* From 250 to 300.

+ Authors differ much as to the size of the tea tree.bee Le Compt, Lond. 1697, 8vo. p. 228, Da Halde, Descr. Générale de la Chine, Paris, 1755, fol. 4 tem. Lond. 1736, 8vo. Osbeck's vol. 4, p. 22. Guil. Pise; in Itin. Bras. Aman. China, vo. 1, p. 247. Eckeberg's Account of Exot. Lemgoie, 1712, 8vo. p. 605. the Chinese Husbandry, vol. 2, p. 303.

No author hitherto has remarked this obvious circumstance; even Kampfer himself base that the leaves terminat: in a point. Areen Exot. page 611.

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