FOEEIGN NOTICES. 



" I incline to the opinion that sulphate of ii-on might be used with advantage for the potato, 

 It will be necessary to lay the potatoes for two or three days in a solution of iron before putting 

 them in the ground. I have just watered with this liquid some potato plants attacked with the rot. 



"Mr. Denis Rovida, lawyer of K'ovara, a witness of the experiment, observed, that in those 

 vines where the issue was abundant, the disease had disappeared as by enchantment. Grapes 

 which some days before had been severely attacked, had resumed their beauty and their vio-or. • 



" It is worthy of remark that the intensity of the disease was always in proportion to the 

 greater or less abundance of the issues. Wherever they flowed freely, the disease had disappeared : 

 on the contrary, where the discharge was feeble, the scourge had continued to leave its mark. 

 These significant symptoms may furnish a key to a system of cure which may possibly be-exteuded 



to a large number of those plants which are attacked by a disease of an obstinate charater. 



Agricultural Echo, August 10, 1852- 



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LoNiCEEA FRAGRANTissiMA. — A sub-evcrgrecn hardy shrub. Flowers whitish, very sweet-scented. 

 Native of China. Belongs to Caprifoils. Introduced by the Horticultural Society. 



This is one of the'plants 

 obtained from China by 

 Mr. Fortune, while in the 

 service of the Horticultu- 

 ral Society, but has not 

 flowered in the Chiswick 

 Garden, where it has 

 been merely known as a 

 perfectly hardy " Caprifo- 

 lium." In January last it 

 blossomed in the garden 

 of the Marquis of Salis- 

 bury, at Hatfield, whence 

 Mr. William Ingram, the 

 gardener there, sent us 

 specimens, with the fol- 

 lowing note, on the 13th 

 April ; — 



"The plant which af- 

 fords me these flowers 

 has been in bloom since 

 January. It occupies an 

 east wall, and has enjoyed 

 no particular advantages 

 of soil or treatment. The 

 flowers appear with the 

 earliest development of 

 the leaves ; and although 

 not large or otherwise 

 striking in appearance, 

 compensate for any defi- 

 ciency by their exceeding 

 fragrance, combining the 

 richness of the perfume of orange blossoms witli the delicious sweetness of the honeysuckle." 



vergreen foliage distinguishes it from all the previously known species of the Chamrecera- 

 division of the genus. 



VOL. ni.3 



LONICEEA FUAGEANTISSIMA. 



