861"Report on-the Subject of Agriculture.[Sept.

This tree is called by naturalists the Sea Pine, and is the 5ame as the Pignola, in Les Landes of Gascony, from which is ex- tracted in Such large quantities resin, tar, and oil of turpen- une. The method best Suited to obtain these valuable commo- dities, after a Series of trials, has been accurately ascertained, and is clearly pointed out, and particularly the mode of purg« ing the tree, by an incision, of its Superabundant Sap.- In the Course of the examination of this Subject, a matter which is rather curious, than immediately useful, has been explained: we mean the reason why this tree, and otbers of the Same Species, retain their verdure through every vicissitude of the SCaSONS.;

In agriculture, nothing is indifferent, every additional ar- ticle of information increases the value of the former Stock of knowledge; therefore objects comparatively inferior have been examined, Such as the means of exterpating the race of cater- Pillars, and of the destruction of moles; the culture of the white Poppy, from which the opium is extracted, has been attended 10, the means of forming the apertures, and of expressing from the plant the narcotic oil with which it abounds.

Sheep constitute one of the most interesting branches of rural economy, and the eubject has received that portion of regard from the Society, which its importance demands. The members have been constantly occupied with trials on the mode of training, or on the attentioy they require in their pro« oress from infancy to maturity, on the diseases to which they are Subject, on the pharmaceutie assiStance that may be given them, on the most rapid means for the multiplication of the Species, and of bringing it to perfection, both in respect to the flesh and the leece. Some Specimens have been procured from tbe jnstitution at Rambouillet, in order to procure in tbese distriets a breed of the genuine Spanish race*.

The Society has published, the expedients pointed out by tbe Minister of State to obtain with the best advantage, either from the flock of Rambovuillet, or from the other establish« ments of government the rams and ewes of this Species.

Such ate ihe exertions which have been made, and Such are the talents which have been employed in the conduct of this justituion» It the Same Spirit be exerted under equally bene- fieial, circumstances in the other departments of France, She will. no less be favoured by art than by'nature, the latent trea- Sure will be extracted from tbe earth, her vast provinces will be converted into an exuberant garden from: which Europe may be Supplied with ali wie necesSaries, the comforts, and ue blessings of existence,

* See an account of the celebrated inſtitution at' Rambovillet in our pr8- <ediivg Number, ps 97