EDITOR'S TABLE. 



New Plants exhibited at the London Crystal Palace lately, were Abies Kaempferi, a new 

 Larch, from the North of China, said to grow one hundred and fifty feet high, and perfectly 

 hardy ; its foliage is very fine. Leptodactylon Californicum, from South California, foliage 

 and habit resembling Roellia ciliata, fiowers two inches in diameter, light rose, tinged 

 with lilac, and pronounced one of the most beautiful greenhouse shrubs. Gesneria Donc- 

 kelaari, a foot and a half high, with spikes of blooms a foot in height. Philesia buxifoUa, 

 with two or three new Ixoras, and Begonia Thwaitesii, with handsome, brown foliage, having 

 blotches of dull green. A Rhamnux, of a species producing a celebrated Chinese green dye. 

 The C'ollinsia verna, a native of Kentucky, attracted much notice, and is recommended as a 

 charming bedding-out plant, having a profuse succession of flowers, the upper lip of the 

 corolla being pure white, and the lower one azure blue, with white rays, and the under side 

 pink. 



Answers to Correspondents. — (P. T.) — Chimonanthps Feageans. Your disappointment 

 with this deliciously scented plant is very natural. Tlie English writers place it on all their 

 lists of garden shrubs, and, in England, by training it against a wall, they get the finely 

 scented flowers from November till March. By placing a protection of glass around the 

 shrub here, we have no doubt the bloom might be obtained in perfection ; as it is in our 

 own garden, the buds form in great numbers, but are destroyed by the cold of December 

 before the bloom appears. At the South, it would be a most valuable addition to the winter 

 garden. It is a native of Japan ; from cheimon, winter, and anthos, a flower ; of the order 

 Calycanthacse, of which our Allspice shrub is an example. 



(C. S.) — Wistaria Chinensis. This beautiful vine may be made to flower several times 

 in the year, by the following simple treatment : After the first flowering is over, strip off all 

 the leaves, and cut off all young and superfluous branches which have been formed, to within 

 a few eyes of the stem, which causes it to throw out fresh leaves, and to flower again ; after 

 this bloom is over, the same process will produce a third bloom, late in the season. The plant 

 does bloom naturally twice, and even thrice, biit the flowers are so very weak and so few, 

 that it is never worth notice ; whereas, by the above simple process, an abundant succes- 

 sion may be insured. These remarks will not apply to young plants, but only to those that 

 are well established. By severe trimming, this plant may be grown as a bush. 



(H. R. RoBEY, Virginia.) The oak shrub, growing about seven feet high, and bearing a 

 fine crop of acorns, and sometimes only two and a half feet in height, of which you have 

 sent us the leaves, is the Quercus prinoides of Wildenow, and the Prinus chincapin of 

 Michaux. 



(Catawissa.) Yes; the Catawissa Raspberry is a "perpetual bearer" up to late frosts, 

 and it produces abundantly ; the flavor of the raspberry may thus be had all the season, 

 but the berry is not of the highest character or aroma ; we are, nevertheless, pleased with 

 it, and consider its introduction a valuable acquisition ; we say this, which we could not 

 conscientiously say last year, after having grown it successfully. 



T. S. Gold ok the Kaxmia was received, but we have not been able to find a place for it, 

 which, however, we hope to do. 



Electrotypino. — Perhaps the largest application of the Electrotype, or Galvanoplastic pro- 

 cess, mentioned in a former page, has been made in the Cathedral of St. Isaac, at St. Peters- 

 burg. The dome is superbly electro-gilded with two hundred and forty-seven pounds of 

 ducat gold ; the metal employed in its construction is — copper, 52^ tons ; brass, 321^ 

 wrought iron, 524^ tons ; cast iron, 1,068 tons. Total, 1,9G6^ tons ! 



