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WHEAT.

There are 330 varieties and sub-varieties of wheat said to be growing in-Britain, perhaps scarcely a dozen of which are generally known to farmers.

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DUTCH BUTTER.

Is made with cream alone, and is best preserved in casks or tubs, with a pickle made of salt, which is removed from time to time.

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SIAMESE COMMANDMENTS.

The moral precepts of the Siamese are comprised in the following Ten Commandments:—­

1.  Do not slay animals.

2.  Do not steal.

3.  Do not commit adultery.

4.  Do not tell lies nor backbite.

5.  Do not drink wine.[4]

6.  Do not eat after twelve o’clock.

7.  Do not frequent plays or public spectacles, nor listen to music.

8.  Do not use perfumes, nor wear flowers, or other personal ornaments.

9.  Do not sleep or recline upon a couch that is above one cubit high.

10.  Do not borrow, nor be in debt.

    [4] The punishment for drinking wine is to have a stream of melted
        copper poured down the throat; but wine is drunk, and all classes
        feed upon flesh.

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ANNUALS FOR 1830.

The Supplement published with the present number contains a Fine Large Engraving of the Leaning Towers of Bologna; humorous cuts from the Comic Annual; and interesting Notices and Unique Extracts from the Keepsake, Landscape Annual, Forget-Me Not, Bijou, Emmanuel, &c. and with No. 400, forms the SPIRIT OF THE ANNUALS FOR 1830.

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LIMBIRD’S EDITION OF THE
Following Novels is already Published: 

s.     d.
Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling            0        6
Paul and Virginia                     0        6
The Castle of Otranto                 0        6
Almoran and Ham et                    0        6
Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia   0        6
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne    0        6
Rasselas                              0        8
The Old English Baron                 0        8
Nature and Art                        0        8
Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield        0       10
Sicilian Romance                      1        0
The Man of the World                  1        0
A Simple Story                        1        4
Joseph Andrews                        1        6
Humphry Clinker                       1        8
The Romance of the Forest             1        8
The Italian                           2        0
Zeluco, by Dr. Moore                  2        6
Edward, by Dr. Moore                  2        6
Roderick Random                       2        6
The Mysteries of Udolpho              3        6
Peregrine Pickle                      4        6

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