The continuation of the papers on "Tea" in this number furnishes some interesting and even startling information as to the adulteration of this favourite article of food. Tea is both adulterated by the foreign makers and by the importers or dealers in this country. The last is of far less importance than in the first case. From this paper we learn that - "The adulterations practised before import are varied and disgusting. They consist in ' facing' common tea with deleterious substances, in drying up foreign leaves (chiefly those of the willow) along with tea, and in re-drying leaves which have already passed through the pots of the celestials, and which are doubtless considered quite good enough for us barbarians. A great trade has lately sprung up in this branch of industry, and the result is known as 'Maloo mixture.' It seems that the leaves are industriously collected and spread out to dry in the sun, when they again become shrivelled, and besides being thus, after a little facing, rendered saleable, they form a most excellent resting-place for the pigs and other domestic animals attached to the cottage where the manufacturer resides." A coloured illustration is given as a pictorial delineation of this wonderful mixture, which was taken by the artist from a saucer, in which had been spread the various constituents as picked out from the several samples.

These included rice husks and straw, rice blackened with plumbago, silk-worms' droppings, maggots, iron-filings, fragments of limestone, minute seeds, scorched tea buds and husks, and fragments of willow leaves and stalks. Truly this "Maloo mixture " is one of a not very inviting character.

Transactions of the Scottish Arboricultural Society, giving the proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual General Meeting held in November 1869, with the various papers read on that occasion.