FOREIGN NOTICES. 



47 



sent by him fo his brother in Paris. Now this does 

 not happen to be true. It was raised by a gentle- 

 man on Long Island; a plant was brought from 

 there by Monsieur Lamlonne, an intimate acquain- 

 tance of the raiser, to Rouen, where it was culti- 

 vated in large quantities. Pailland, a gardener 

 at Rouen, when Noisette of Paris rcceivetl a plant 

 from liis brother in America, (who by the by, 

 might o'jject to inf;)rm us how he got it from Long 

 Island), grew it under an iron cage in one of his 

 houses for protection, while it was being common- 

 ly sold in Rouen at a moderate rate Prevost, the 

 well known cultivator at Rouen, can attest to these 

 facts. — Annals of HorHculture- [If this be true, 

 (v\hich we doubi,) why not give the name of the 

 the ''gentleman on Long Island" who originated 



it.— Ed.] 



London Horticul. ural Society. — The last 

 (May) exhibition of this Society is represented 

 as " perhaps the best that has ever graced the gar- 

 dens." The day was very j)ropitious, and the gar- 

 dens were thronged with four thousand eiglit hun- 

 dred and forty-four visitors, including Prince Al- 

 bert. " As for the flowers,"' says Dr. Lindley 

 " their beauty was beyond description. Never be- 

 fore was there such a blaze of rich colours, deli- 

 cate tints, and magnificent vegetation assembled. 

 The great table on which the Chinese Azaleas and 

 Cacti were assembled was a pyramid of flame, and 

 the exhibition of Orchids alone was 4S yards long, 

 in a double bank; nor was there a bad specimen 

 amona; them." 



The Yellow P^ony. — (Pisonia wiltmannia.) 

 < A more remarkable acquisition than a yellow 

 Pffiony, not a stravv-coloureil species, (which is only 

 a spoiled white,) but a true yellow flowered plant 

 does not often occur. All that we know for 

 certain of its history is that it was received in Oc- 

 tober, 1842, in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society from M. N. de Hartwiss, the director of 

 the Nilika garden in the Crimea; that it wasjust men- 

 tioned in the '■ London Journal of Botany" for 

 April, 1842, by Dr. Fischer of St. Petersburg, who 

 in a letter to Sir VV^m. Hooker makes the following 

 statement: — "Mr. Hartwiss has received many inte- 

 resting plants from Abcharia, sent by Count M. 

 AVorontzoff. Among them he has found a yellow 

 flowered Pceony. Epimcdium pinnatum, and 

 Pinus nordmanniaiia, the latter an Abies, said to 

 be a beautiful tree." 



We unilerstand that 25 guineas was demanded for 

 a s'ngle plant of it in one of the great continental 

 nurseries. The species has much the ajipearance 

 of Pneonia cretica, is quite hardy, ami grows where 

 any other Pa;ony will grow, and flowers in May. 

 At present we believe that the plant in the garden 

 of the Horticultural Society, is unique in this coun- 

 try. — Botanical Register. 



Pre r.RviNG Pollen. — M. H. Haquin, a zealous 

 and intelligent horticulturist at Liege, has succeed- 

 eil perfectly in impregnating lilies with pollen 

 ke|)t for 48 days; the Azalea, with pollen kept 42 

 days; and, what is still more surprising, the Camel- 

 lia has borne perfect seeds when the pistils were 

 fertilized with pollen, gathered 65 days previously. 



M. Haquin has now fine hybrid seedlings from 

 these plants, to the flowering of which he is anx- 

 iously looking forward. 



As soon as the blossoms open, M. Haquin cuts 

 off the jiollen, (anthers,) and treats it in the follow- 

 ing manner : " I cut off the stamens as soon as I see 

 them, put them in a paper packet closely pasted, 

 and place the packet for 24 hours in a warm and 

 dry jilace. At the end of this time, the pollen dust 

 is perfected. I then take the pollen out of the pa- 

 per packet, and put it in another, matle of very thin 

 sheet lead. Afterwards, I place this in another 

 paper packet, label it, and put the whole away in 

 a place that is cool but not moist." — Revue Horti' 

 cole. 



[M. Haquin adds that he has the pollen of the 

 Azalea ami Camellia, preserved in this manner, 

 with which he intends to fertilize the blossoms of 

 the ensuing year. The fact of being able to pre- 

 serve pollen, is one highly interesting to all ama- 

 teurs who desire to raise new varieties, whether of 

 flowers or fruit, by crossing or hybridizing; since 

 it often happens that the plant to be fei-tilized 

 bloonis too early or too late, for the blossoms of 

 the male parent. Or perhaps the sort to be fertili- 

 zed, may be in one place, antl the one which we 

 desire to fertilize with, may be in another an hun- 

 dreil miles. off. It is easy to see, that since it is 

 found that pollen may he preserved, this is of no 

 moment. The pollen may be gathereil when 

 scarcely mature, and kept for days or weeks; and 

 it may be sent by mail from one part of the country 

 to another. — Ed.] 



Earthing up Potatoes. — On this subject, Mr. 

 C. W. Johnson says: — " I have long had doubts re- 

 lative to earthing up potatoes being a beneficial 

 practice, and now I am convinced that it is detri- 

 mental. The variety employed in my exjieriments 

 are the Pink Kiilney; all the sets were planted at 

 the same time, (the first week in April,) in rows 

 two feet apart, and eighteen inches in the rows; 

 and were taken up September 24ih, and weighed. 

 The average of all my experiments gives exactly 

 an increase of one-fourth in favor of 7iot earthing 

 up ; but some of the plants gave still more, viz: as 

 42 lbs. is to 31i lbs. The exjierinient has been 

 made on the sixteenth of an acre of gooil ileep loam, 

 with a cool, moist subsoil." — Annals of Hart. 



Camellia japonica. — Of the many ways ol 

 propagating this plant, few succeed better, for a 

 new and dear variety, than that we should call bud- 

 grafting. This used to be done by INIessrs. Brown 

 of Slough, very generally, ami with good success; 

 everj' butl, with the smallest portion of wood at- 

 tached, made a plant. The stock was cut down to 

 within two inches of the surface, and the small 

 piece of wood, with the bml attached, grafted on 

 the top. ISIany ways may be employea to join 

 these, and the only necessary precautions are, first, 

 to leave a bud at the top or highest point of the 

 stock itself, and to insert the graft so as fo bring 

 down the butl in it below the level of that of the 

 stock, but on the opposite side. Whether this is 

 by a sloping cut, (splice-grafting,) or by notching 

 the stock and placing the graft on a wciigc, (cleft- 



