72 THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. [March, 



©he Cocoa Plant (Theobronia Cacao) lias just produced fruit in the 



Glasnevin Botanic Garden, being the first instance recorded of its fruiting in 

 Ireland, and almost the first in Great Britain. The plant is some six feet high, 

 and bears the fruit on its trunk near the base. 



©he word Bouquet, as -we are accustomed to see it spelt, is a French 



perversion of two Tartar- Arabic words, bo, beautiful, and ha, perfume ; hence, 

 the original meaning is anything which possesses a beautiful perfume. In like 

 manner, the luscious Tokay wine (of which the Austrian Emperor is reputed to be as fond as 

 the King of Prussia was of Champagne), is indebted for its name to the two Arabic words, to, 

 royal or imperial, and ka, perfume. "When, therefore, connoisseurs speak of their wines having 

 a " beautiful bouquet," they are correctly using the word in its original sense, but they are in- 

 correctly and unwittingly using the adjective twice, first in English, and then in Arabic. 



iir/RiNG the past autumn, Messrs. Eivers and Son, of Sawbridgeworth, 



sent to South Kensington some remarkable examples, varying from about 18 in. 

 to 2 ft. high, of Dwarf Apple Trees on the English Paradise Stock. The number 

 and size of the fruit with which they were laden were extraordinary, Mela Carla, Coe's Golden 

 Drop, and Stamford Pippin having each from six to eight fruits, Calville Blanc a dozen, and 

 the beautiful Pomme d'Api nineteen, and there had been several more on the trees. The 

 advantages such small trees offer to those who have but a small extent of garden ground are 

 very great. They are, of course, the result of working on a dwarfing stock. This subject of 

 Apple Stocks in connection with Cordon Trees has latterly excited much discussion, but no 

 satisfactory conclusions can yet be drawn, as it is clear that by the Pommier de Paradis, or 

 French Paradise Stock, the disputants are not all speaking of the same plant. This Stock 

 question is to be put to the test at Chiswick. 



©he whole mystery as to the falling off of Camellia buds (writes Mr. 



Barnes,) lays in a nut-shell. At Bicton the outdoor plants, with thick, dark- 

 coloured leaves and plump fleshy buds, are exposed to wind, sun, and rain, and 



never in the least protected. The indoor plants bear foliage and buds of a still more luxuriant 

 character. The outdoor plants get at all seasons all that drops from the heavens. The indoor 

 plants are abundantly supplied with soakings of water, the engine being set to work freely 

 amongst them, morning and evening, so that during the growing season they are deluged, and 

 manure-water and soot-water are freely applied. These Bimple facts, ho thinks, show 

 conclusively that bud-dropping is caused by stint of moisture ; and that herein may also be 

 found the explanation of deficiency of bloom-buds. 



^ouNa Gardeners, and old ones, too, for the matter of that, would do 



well to read, and mark well, the following monition : — "A man, now-a-days, must 

 have something of the steam-engine in him. A lazy, snail-paced fellow might 

 have got on in the world fifty years ago, but he won't do in these times. "We live in an age of 

 quick ideas ; men speak quickly, think quickly, and slow-coaches are not tolerated. Be up 

 and dressed always — not gaping and rubbing your eyes, as if you were half-asleep, but wide- 

 awake for whatever may turn up, and you may do something before you die. Think, plan, 

 reflect as much as you please before you act ; but think quickly and closely, and when you 

 have fixed your eye on an object, spring to the mark at once." 



ffin. George Jackman, sen., of the Woking Nursery, died somewhat 



suddenly on the 12th of February, from syncope, following an attack of gout. The 

 nursery, which was founded by his father about sixty years ago, has been most 



successfully carried on since 1S30 by the late Mr. Jackman, latterly in association with his 

 son, Mr. G. Jackman, to whom we arc more especially indebted for the hybrids of Clematis. 

 Mr. Jackman was in his 68th year. 



