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e autumn and winter cuttings have hitherto been complete 
failures and the greatest success has been secured with those made 
of younger wood. In June some cuttings made of the new shoots - 
were put in mild bottom heat in a close frame ; they were three or 
four inches long with a “heel” of older wood at the base, and 
50 per cent. took root. In early July, when the wood had, of 
course, become firmer, a second batch of similar cuttings was put in 
under the same conditions ; of these about 85 per cent. took root. 
From present experience, therefore, it would seem that July is the 
best month to take cuttings. Vegetation in the earlier part of the 
may expect to get an almost perfect “strike ” of July cuttings. 
w. J. B. 
Botanical Magazine for November.—The plants figured are 
Eriopsis Helenae, Kriinzl, (t. 8462); Mesembryanthemum Pearsonii, 
N. E. Brown (t. 8463) ; Cornus controversa, Hemsl. (t. 8464) ; Iris 
caroliniana, S. Wats. (t. 8465) and Corokia virgata, Turrill 
(t. 8466). 
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time in 1909 ; the plant having been presented by Messrs. Sander 
m 1894. The description was drawn up by Krinzlin from a 
specimen which flowered at St. Albans in 1897. The flower scapes, 
some 60 cm. long, with their numerous yellowish-brown flowers are 
very striking. 
Mesembryanthemum Pearsonii is one of this remarkable group of 
South African plants with a single pair of leaves and shows consider- 
able resemblance to M. testiculare and M. Bolusii. The leaves, 
owever, are much larger than those of the former species and from 
the latter it differs particularly in having no style but a large 
sessile discoid stigma. The plant which forms the subject of the 
illustration was collected during the Percy Sladen Expedition to 
the Orange River and sent by Prof. H. H. W. Pearson to Kew in 
1911 where it flowered shortly afterwards. 
he Cornus is one of the most elegant of small deciduous trees in 
cultivation. he leaves are alternate, though this is not very 
clearly shown in the figure, i 
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figured was obtained from M 
C. brachypoda has been dealt with under C. macrophylla, Wall. 
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