PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 85 
reproduce themselves slowly and with as a i 
happens эку же n that they disappear 
in part to such a degree that in a short зая те жее 
an amateur here, who should des 
rted collection = the finest sates Orchids, will 
perhaps be o to cause to be ack fro 
pe more than one species no longer to be 
found ieee eet от M. le Major Taunas, in 
Rio Janeiro—Belgique Horticole: Nov. an 
1863, р 
Rots and Queries, 
IUM Arp —Can any one help me 
to the in nibérdamt: Gossypium Arboreum of 
the East В. Trevor CLARKE 
Loca jd CIETIES.— Will you kindly inform me 
whether the e Royal Society ever interferes to assist 
establishment of local Societies—as, for in- 
milar 
name of the Ronal adr Vo 
with any local Society, са for * ndred 
— Iam, &c., C. L. 
anyb 
а cat itat apicc ter for Valerian ? 
The books, heaven help them! talk of eats 
in beds o have held it, h the 
commercial drug and the plant, to their noses, and 
y always “у № By t y, did 
ed 
anybody ever cultivate or hear of beds of Valerian? 
а > 4 certain that the root smells power = э 
Felines Fur 
м LIA GRaATISSIMA.— The periodical ade 
of the leaves of noe 80 Yo similar to which 
occurs 
elegans, is on hose strange 
ways certain plants which one can 2 
cr in ^ к» light t of i idiosyncrasies. | Possibl 
ео 
wild state, - eould tell us runu it is owing to 
the ways or d E rymen. Iam glad 
to see such wien $ put, and in n the right place to 
put them, for vhi оаа the grand mysteries of 
Ў be тоге fitly dise e] than in the 
of e ev east be, and has е the first 
scientific hort: ural journal in the world. 
AND Ape AGE,— regret БЫ I cannot 
уе уо correspondent a plain answer to a plain 
Peper АА but wi Wiis if I live, try the thing this sea- 
In the а ы ie эй experiment last year for 
the same purpose, 
e ritu 
e the plant to produce 
the case, for eve ту 
suppose, to the їп- 
, The experiment may be made roughly by plant- 
turnip and eabbage together now, and tying 
seaso 
tely, I may Sb apie that 
he first two or thre Heo: which fi en are 
apt to be barre rueiferze 
v leer 
"vois What is » Medie. is one Pie 
Swered. It has often engage Á— 
tion, ont has acit stronger heads than min 
5 
Wuaris A ox correspondent's 
r pu 
I do not know a more interesting or a more intri- 
cate line of ere than that which has for its 
object the tra ing of a long domesticated plant 
back to its wild ~~ al. І do not think it is a 
cowslip. Ina - mber 
of this sort, I hav eed 
иа cmi impe ss, but nothing like а РУз 
(Iw d recae ook to the Oxlip: by-the- 
eam d is an Oxlip 
A very high € — “re a ве 
that these and the primr d all со 
the same thing. I cultiv. 
rose for seven generatio h » banishing а all ааа.) 
sor са жай Polyanthuses from my garden. е 
уа 
rapid improvement їп florist’s qualities, but 
а in colour except paper white, which 
appeared in the third generation. I then seeded a 
ne pure white in a pot under glass, in company 
some handsome coloured sorts. Th seedlings 
Some are ур а "Polyanthoid Took, | es Тат by 
no means assured that the Polyanthus is a Prim 
rose yet. 
Obituary, 
Tue Society has to record e — loss by 
death of the undermentioned Fell 
17th Feb — Вау. tea, of king- 
ton, Almondsbury, Bristol, aged 88. The depart- 
ment of Hortieult ture which Mr. Peach apecisity 
as 
ER WADDINGTON, 
, Suffolk. . 
Y MAGNAY, of 24 ‚ Kensing 
March — Упалам WaRDELL, of Abbots 
field, чад 
22nd March.—Joun Barr, of Highbury Grove, 
aged 61. 
Miscellancons,. 
ARKABLE PORTU 
Rem AL LAUREL Тав. I а 
requested by Lord Wesson to furnish, for the И 
mation of the ie 
Roy 
n the grounds of Sudb 
fortunately. ‘sled to the ground A ac -. m 
winte 
this tree re 
fellows, "s feld = had fro remarkable per a its 
become а ] агре рт 
The points of the. lower 
the ground, had in time — root, which 
1 ad ed, and ultimately 
became independent plants ; itn, in their turn 
Fer : а 
successional layers, until И of Po 
Laurel was about 35 y: == in ameter havin 
appearance, at a ае dis 
bush, which i in al i me on 
t short 
s he eight was mot particularly remarkable, 
perhaps never much exceeding 20 feet, but the 
