246 THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. [November, 



In reference to the question of dimorphism, M. Carriere observed that we have 

 some quite analogous examples — plants with white flowers producing deep rose 

 and even red ones, or plants with red flowers producing white ones. Thus, Spircea 

 sorhifolia has been seen to produce, on the same trunk, side by side, branches 

 with red flowers, and others with white flowers, which is the normal colour ; 

 while from a yellow-flowered Canna a bud with red flowers has issued ; and the 

 Four-seasons Rose, whose flowers are normally of a fine rose-colour, has produced 

 the four-season white Moss Eose, called Rose de Thionville. Similar changes 

 occur amongst fruits. Thus, on a red-fruited Gooseberry, has been seen a branch 

 bearing some quite white ; on a Cherry-tree, with fruits almost black, has been 

 noticed branches bearing white or flesh-coloured fruits. When it is added that 

 very often the appearance of the plant — that is to say, the leaves, habit, or vigour, 

 &c., of these dimorphisms — differs from that of the plants on which they are 

 produeed, it will be evident, he argues, that it is not impossible that the Rohinia 

 hispida may be the result of dimorphism. In the Eose de Thionville, for 

 example, independently of the colour, which differs entirely, we find in the mossy 

 hairs of the branches of the peduncle and of the calyx, quite the analogue of 

 the hispid hairs on the branches of the R. hispida. Notwithstanding this, says 

 M. Carriere, we do not hesitate to believe that R. hispida issued from seed of 

 the common Eobinia, and that it is very probably a variety which originally 

 grew up without being remarked, as such cases still happen frequently. 



The fact of the absolute sterility of R. hispida presents no obstacle to this 

 conclusion, for it seems proper to a considerable quantity of known plants, and 

 Rohinia Pseud-Acacia itself presents numerous examples of it. For instance, 

 there are of Non-flowering Varieties : — R. dissecta, umhraculifera., tortuosa, 

 bullata^ angidata, glaucescens. Of varieties flowering very little, rarely giving 

 seed : — R. Bessoniana, monstrosa, coluteoides, ivji^amidata, crispa., tortuosa major. 

 Of varieties flowering occasionally, often freely, yet giving few seeds, and some- 

 times none : — R. Decaisneana, viscosa, monophylla., sophorcefolia, microphylla, 

 and Bella rosea. — T. Mooee. 



STRAWBERKIES IN AUTUMN. 



0T1I,Y E are just now picking some very good fruit of Strawberries out-of-doors, 



j'l^jU' from plants that were forced in March in pots, and planted out on a 



W;^ warm sunny border in June. Tlie variety is the Prince of Wales, an old 



i(f one, but nevertheless a good forcer, and also a good out-of-door cropper. 



After flowering we placed over each plant a bell-glass or French cloche, and they 



arc swelling off some very fine fruit under them ; and had we more glasses, more 



might be got. Without the assistance of the boll-glass none of the fruit would 



have swollen to maturity, and hence I find that no protection is so convenient 



and perfect as a good bell-glass. The Keens' Seedling, too, often throws up trusses 



of flowers and fruit, but not in such abundance as the Prince of Wales. Every 



plant has from one to three trusses of flowers, and each truss is swelling off one 



