The Salem (Mass.) Gazette says: - " We were informed by Mr. Asa Bushby, jr., of South Danvers, that he lately gathered 6000 bunches of onions-from half an acre of land, which sold, delivered at our whaves, for more than $200".

Bayard Taylor's India, China, and Japan contains less information of a positive or scientific kind than could have been expected. The only gleanings from it we have been able to make are the following: -

"The husk (of the tamarind tree,) incloses a thick paste, wrapped around the seeds, with an intensely acid, but agreeable taste." p. 52.

" The acacia and tamarind are occasionally met with, and the date and brab palms thrive in the valleys. The tamarind frequently rivals the banyan in size, while its foliage is wonderfully graceful and delicate. The leaflets of its slender pinnate leaves are so small, that the Koran could not more forcibly describe the torments of Mahomedan hell, than when it says that the sinners in the nether fire shall receive, to cool their thirst, just so much water as will lie on one of these leaflets, once in a thousand years." p. 82.

" In the valleys is found the deodar, or Himalayan Cypress, which grows to a height of more than 200 feet" p. 190. This is a brief notice for the Deodar!

The description of Agra and its architectural reamins, is the redeeming feature of the work.