[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 28 Oct 1815 - Natural History

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 28 Oct 1815   (p. 4, col. 5)

 

NOTICES IN NATURAL HISTORY. 

 

An apple was lately blown from a tree in the orchard of Mr. Thomas DAVISON, Rein-house, Castle Sowerby, weighing 17½ ounces, and
measuring, from the stalk to the blossom, 9 inches, and in circumference, 13½. It is of the species called the Tankard apple. There
are several more on the tree nearly of the same size. 

 

A few days ago, was dug up by Mr. Alexander JARDINE, in his garden at Watch-hill, near Annan, a potatoe of the very remarkable
weight of 26oz. 

 

Mr. Peter GOURLY, in Whithorn, produced from his garden, a few days ago, a carrot which measured 12 inches in circumference by 24
inches in length, and weighed 40 ounces. 

 

There are now in the garden at Lochvale, in the neighbourhood of Dumfries, several pear trees which have produced a second crop, now
in perfection on the trees. They are the Crawford pear, and the first crop was pulled in August last. 

 

An ewe, belonging to John CHRISTIAN, Esq. of Unerigg Hall, on the 1st March last, had three lambs, two of which she reared; and
about the middle of August she produced another, which is now fat and ready for the butcher. The shepherd is confident that, before
next March, the same ewe will have twins. 

 

On the farm of the above-mentioned gentleman, this season one grain of wheat produced upwards of 1000 fold! 

 

Last week, the head and horns of a huge animal, supposed of the elk species, were dug up in a marl-pit, 13 feet below the surface,
in the Isle of Man;—the head scarcely so large as that of an ox—the horns six feet long, and the tips five feet asunder. 

 

 

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