Marshall's Dwarf Prolific was also much admired.------Dr. Lindsay has published a popular history of British lichens, from which we make the following extract: "When we consider that many species have a texture which, by readily imbibing and eagerly retaining moisture, renders them, in a sense, independent of all climatal changes, enabling them equally to brave polar cold and tropical heat; many not only cling with such tenacity as to be inseparable from, but even corrode or disintegrate the hardest and barest rocks, even pure quartz; the most ample provision has been made by the great Author of ail for their reproduction or multiplication, in spite of the most adverse external circumstances, and under conditions fatal to all higher vegetation, both by the multiplicity and abundance of their reproductive cells - which sometimes constitute almost the entire bulk of the plant - the extremely minute size and delicate nature of these cells, by virtue whereof they are disseminated by every shower or zephyr, and the readiness with which these germinate; and that, throughout the family, both in structure and products, there are many analogies which bind them closely to the Phanerogamia, we cannot fail to increase our surprise that a curiosity has not been sooner awakened to become familiar with the natural history of plants which strew the path of man wherever he roams over the wide world - which constitute the most universally diffused type of terrestrial vegetation." - Twelve hundred guineas, or six thousand dollars, was lately paid by Louis Napoleon for an English bull; but he gets his money cheap.------Late experiments of mixing Mangel Wurzel with flour, to make bread and pastry, have demonstrated a saving in the price of from thirty-five to fifty per cent.

Parsnips, carrots, and other roots, are also said to be applicable.------A writer, In London, says: "In my opinion, Prince Lear is the best and most distinct hybrid perpetual rose since the Giant, beautiful and erect in habit, and of very fine foliage. A good-shaped yellow or blue hybrid perpetual, are the two colors in which there is a good opening for hybridizers.----As an argument for steam-engines for farm-work, mowing-machines, Ac, a correspondent says: "A machine, by being composed of inanimate matter destitute of feeling and unsusceptible of fatigue, proceeds unswervingly in its assigned duty, and may be forced to accomplish tasks which it would be both inhuman and impolitic to demand from living creatures, and yet many human beings are employed as the moving force of very ill-constructed machines intended to lessen and aid human labor. We are told by those who have studied the subject, that the muscular energy of men forms the most insufficient or the weakest of all the prime moving forces. Human labor is very limited in its compass, and is the least to be depended on for regularity.

The power exerted by one man is comparatively small, and it is both inconvenient and expensive to cause a large number of individuals to unite their powers in a continued or concerted effort."------There are few good, hardy Evergreens that can stand sharp east winds in spring, not even the common Laurel. There are few better than the varieties of Hollies, Tree-Box, common Arbor Vitas, and Evergreen Privets.------Fowls, known in Normandy by the name of Creve Coeurs, are becoming great favorites abroad. They have more flesh on the breast than any other, except Bantams; they fatten externally, with a remarkable absence of offal; their eggs are remarkably large; the hens are low on the legs, with large, fleshy thighs, wings large, and body square. They walk slowly, scratch but little, and do not fly; plumage black, or black and white variegated; they carry on their heads a large tuft, and a small, upright, two-horned comb, whilst a large cravat of feathers under the neck gives them a matronly air.------Farm-yard manure is treated, by Dr. Voelcker, Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, in a way that will surprise some farmers.

For example: The liquid drainage of dung-heaps, he says, is more valuable than the urine of animals, because it contains phosphate of lime, which is scarcely to be found in the other. That no loss arises from spreading manure on the surface of a field; on the contrary, the fermentation is stopped, and the escape of volatile matters thereby ceases; and if it be left to lie till the rain has washed it in, is far more beneficial than burying it at once. And, "in the case of clay soils," he adds: "I have no hesitation to say the manure may be spread even six months before it is ploughed in, without losing any appreciable quantity of manuring matters." What is the true theory?------The Legislature of Victoria, Australia, have passed a law against thistles!

Farmers and others whose lands are overrun with the prickly intruders, are to be officially warned to destroy them, under penalty of a fine of from twenty to eighty dollars; or the authorities may cause the work to be done, and charge the cost to the offender. How would such a law be relished in oar free country?------The School Commissioners of Ireland have been considering the same subject, and approve a suggestion that the children of the national schools "should be instructed by the several teachers as to the necessity of destroying all weeds found on the farms of their parents, or on the highways adjacent thereto."

The British Association has granted one hundred and twenty-five dollars for further examination of the natural history of the ocean by dredging; and fifty dollars for promoting the multiplication of salmon, particularly in the Tay.------Happy the mortals whose building is restricted to castles in the air, for they know not the bother, when once the bricklayers have got into the house, of getting them out again!

Emerson's English Traits has entertained us very much, and we venture to make a few extracts below, the only ones, indeed, adapted to this journal: -

"The native cattle are extinct, but the island is full of artificial breeds. The agriculturist, Bakewell, created sheep, and cows, and horses, to order, and breeds in which everything was omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his surloin. Stall-feeding makes sperm-mills of the cattle, and converts the stable to a chemical factory. The rivers, lakes, and ponds, too much fished, or obstructed by factories, are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot, and herring.

"Whatever is excellent and beautiful in civil, rural, or ecclesiastic architecture; in fountain, garden, or grounds; the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home. The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations; the gardens which Evelyn planted; the temples and pleasure-houses which Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren built; the wood that Gibbons carved; the taste of foreign and domestic artists, Shenstone, Pope, Brown, Loudon, Paxton, are in the vast auction, and the hereditary principle heaps on the owner of to-day the benefit of ages of owners. The present possessors are to the foil as absolute as any of their fathers, in choosing and procuring what they like. This comfort and splendor, the breadth of lake and mountain, tillage, pasture, and park, sumptuous castle, and modern villa - all consist with perfect order; They have no revolutions; no horse-guards dictating to the crown; no Parisian poissardes and barricades; no mob: but drowsy habitude, daily dress-dinners, wine, and ale, and beer, and gin, and sleep. * * *

"An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway, and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone masonry, solid as the walls of Cumae, and all Europe cannot prevail on him to sell or compound for an inch of the land. They delight in a freak as the proof of their sovereign freedom. Sir Edward Boynton .at Spic Park, at Cadenham, on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side. Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpoie, Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks; and Newstead Abbey became one in the hands of Lord Byron. * * *

"On general grounds, whatever tends to form manners, or to finish men, has a great value. Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship, will respect every social guard which our manners can establish, tending to secure from the intrusion of frivolous and distasteful people. The jealousy of every class to guard itself, is .a testimony to the reality they have found in life. When a man once knows that he has done justice to himself, let him dismiss all terrors of aristocracy as superstitions, so far as he is concerned. He who keeps the door of a mine, whether of cobalt, or mercury, or nickel, or plumbago, securely knows that the world cannot do without him. Everybody who is real, is open and ready for that which is also real".

Descriptions of places are rare, but we like the following so much that we must make room for it: -

"We came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall - the renowned seat of the Earls of Pembroke, a house known to Shakspeare and Massinger, the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney, where he wrote the Arcadia; where he conversed with Lord Brooke, a man of deep thought, and a poet, who caused to be engraved on his tombstone, 'Here lies Fulke Greville Lord Brooke, the friend of Sir Philip Sidney.' It is now the property of the Earl of Pembroke, and the residence of his brother, Sidney Herbert, Esq., and is esteemed a noble specimen of the English manor-hall. My friend had a letter from Mr. Herbert to his housekeeper, and the house was shown. The state drawing-room is a double cube, thirty feet high by thirty feet wide, by sixty feet long: the adjoining room is a single cube, of thirty feet every way. Although these apartments and the long library were full of good family portraits, Vandyke's and others; and though there were some good pictures, and a quadrangle cloister full of antique and modern statuary - to which C, catalogue in hand, did all too much justice - yet the eye was still drawn to the windows, to a magnificent lawn, on which grew the finest cedars in England. I had not seen more charming grounds. We went out, and walked over the estate.

We crossed a bridge, built by Inigo Jones, over a stream of which the gardener did not know the name (Qu. Alph?); watched the deer; climbed to the lonely sculptured summer-house, on a hill backed by a wood; came down into the Italian garden, and into a French pavilion, garnished with French busts; and so, again, to the house, where we found a table laid for us with bread, meats, peaches, grapes, and wine".

That little table of meats, fruit, and wine, is as rare as it is capital, and might safely be imitated, sometimes, in America.