[547] 'Journal of Horticulture,' 1862, p. 476.
[548] 'Gardener's Chronicle,' 1852, pp. 435, 691.
[549] Bechstein, 'Naturgesch. Deutschlands,' 1801, B. i. s. 310.
[550] Prichard, 'Phys. Hist. of Mankind,' 1851, vol. i. p. 224.
[551] G. Lewis's 'Journal of Residence in West Indies,' 'Home and Col. Library,' p. 100.
[552] Sidney's edit. of Youatt on the Pig, p.24.
[553] 'Journal of Horticulture,' 1862, pp. 476, 498; 1865, p. 460. With respect to the heartsease, 'Gardener's Chronicle,' 1863, p. 628.
[554] 'Des Jacinthes, de leur Culture,' 1768, p. 53: on wheat, 'Gardener's Chronicle,' 1846, p. 653.
[555] W. B. Tegetmeier, 'The Field,' Feb. 25, 1865. With respect to black fowls, see a quotation in Thompson's 'Nat. Hist. of Ireland,' 1849, vol. i. p. 22.
[556] 'Bull. de la Soc. d'Acclimat.,' tom. vii. 1860, p. 359.