FOREIGN NOTICES. 



Culture of the Chinese Primrose. — I generally sow my seeds about tins time, or a little earlier, 

 in shallow pans, in light sanJy soil, without any manure. They are sown thinly and pressed 

 down on the surface, so as just to be covered with the soil. After a gentle watering, the pans 

 containing the seed are removed to a hot-bed, where they remain until the young plants are about 

 an inch in height. At this stage, they are pricked out into the same sort of pans, an inch apart, 

 adding this time onc-thii-d leaf-mold to the soil. The plants are put into the hot-bed again until 

 they have attained the height of two inches, when they are taken out of the pans, and shifted 

 into 5-inch pots that have been well drained. The compost for this and their final shift consists 

 of equal quantities of cow-dung two years old, leaf-mold, peat earth, and sandy soil. After pot- 

 ting, the plants are removed into a cold frame, with an eastern aspect. The lights are kept close 

 for a few days, and the plants are shaded from the mid-day sun until they commence growing. 

 Air is then admitted, gradually at first, but as soon as I perceive the plants to be fairly in a push- 

 ing state, I ventilate freely. The sashes are, however, always put on when it rains, for nothing 

 is so injurious to Primulas as water overhead, at any stage of their growth. As they begin to fill 

 their pots with roots, I give them liquid manure once a week, made from pigeon's dung. I permit 

 the first flower stem to rise, but only for the purpose of judging of the merits of the flower. As 

 soon as that is decided, the good flowers are picked out, and when the pots are filled with roots 

 the plants are finally shifted into 8 or 12-inch pots, and treated in precisely the same way as 

 at the former shifting, and with the same situation and aspect. They remain in the cold frame 

 until the middle of October. After that they are brought into their winter quarters to flower in 

 the green-house. As soon as the j^lants have stopped growing, I withhold the dung-water, as a 

 continuance of it would be likely to destroy them in the winter months. — /. H., in London Gar- 

 deners' C/ironicle, August 6. 



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Standard Rose Trees. — I offer to the lovers of standard Roses a little plan of my own ; it has 

 succeeded admirably. An artificial prop to standard Roses is unsightly, and is both exposed to 

 decay in the run of time, and to disasters from the raging of the wintry blast. In order to do 

 without this prop, plant three standard Roses, (the longer the stem, the better,) in an equilateral 

 triangle. If on a slope, one leg must be longer than the other two. They may be from eight to 

 fourteen inches apart. Bring the stems together at the top, and bore a hole through each of 

 them, a little below where they have been budded ; then through these holes thread a copper 

 wire, such as is used for soda-water bottles, and bring the lieads of the three plants quite close 

 together, making the ends of the wire fast. This is all. You have here a group so firm and 

 strong, that it can never break down, or ever require an artificial support, I made four groups 

 last autumn. They are now in fine blow, and are much admired. — Charles Waterion, in London 



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The Nijirod Strawberry. — "We have received samples of this from Mr. Sanders, the intelligent 

 gardener at Tedworth, with a request that we would state our opinion of it. So far as we can 

 judge of it, after having been packed in a post-oflace bag for several hours, we should say it is 

 superior to the British Queen; it is large, oblong, or rather x-onical, with the same color as that 

 variety, but sweeter and richer. It is said by Mr. Sanders to be an excellent bearer, and to force 

 well ; in addition to which it is reported to be much hardier than the British Queen, nearly all 

 of which perished last winter round Tedworth, while this A^wnrorf suffered in no degree whatever. 

 — London Gardeners' Chronicle. 



The late Professor Adrien de Jussieu. — Advices from Paris mention the decease of this dis- 

 tinguished botanist, upon whom the mantlo of his great ancestors may be said to have fallen. 

 Among the most conscientious and exact of systematical writers he also ranked high as a physio- 

 logist, as his well known elementary work has shown the world. For many years his health had 

 been delicate, and of late had been deplorable. By his decease a vacancy occurs in the Presi- 

 dent's chair of the French Institute, in that of Professor of Rui-al Botany in the Jardin des Plantes 

 , it is said, will not be filled up), and among tlie twenty foreign members of the 11' 

 Society of London. — J. L., in London Gardeners' Chronicle. 



