FLORICULTURE. 



vigorous habit , with green stems and petioles , furnished 

 ; with long soft white hairs ; leaves green , dentate-ciliate 

 i nerves white, petioles long, erect red near the top • bracts 

 large, somewhat heart-shaped, keeled ; pedicels stout red • 

 ovary green ; corolla very large, more than three inches in 

 diameter, consisting of 4 petals , the two outer suborbicular, 

 tin- two inner oblong-spathulate , of a bright vermilion red; 

 stamina] column nearly spherical. 



,■> Uoinn-r, plant somewhat branching; leaves 

 small, narrow, dentate; flowers numerous, of medium size 

 and of a drop magenta colour. 



St. Jean, a branching very floriferous variety 

 with small toothed leaves and semi double, rather ragged 

 flowers, of a beautiful bright cerise. 



ii. M,i,Mi, t e Almelet,& plant with long, green leaves and 

 somewhat shrubby in habit, with small delicate pink flowers. 

 The foregoing six varieties are all extremely pretty, and 

 might have found numerous companions in the splendid lot 

 grown by Mr. Gaulain, but, as we said before, nearly all 

 are good that are raised from mixed seed. 



Ihiplification in the flower of tuberous-rooted Begonies, 

 if not absolutely a new fact, was observed for the first time 

 at Lyons, and has recently been repeated at Mr. Lemoine's, 

 Nancy. The plant named by Mr. Gaulain in honour of 

 Mr. Leon de St. Jean exhibits a decided tendency in this 

 direction. 



We understand that this variety has already furnished 

 some noteworthy results at Nancy, to which we shall allude 

 again very shortly. E- * 



ZD-A.TIE IFLTJIMIS. 



rords respecting the 

 and botanically. 

 re were only three 



Japan [ Lacro 



as a fruit tree, under the name of Kaki. {D. Kaki.) This tree 

 will only succeed in the orange region, where it bears a 

 roundish fruit as large as a small apricot, yellow and sug- 

 ary when ripe, and known under the name of Figues caques. 

 It is now rather widely dispersed in the south of France. 

 \\ e saw a fine specimen of it in Italy in the botanic garden 

 at Pisa, and Prof. Caruel, the Director, kindly gave us some 

 of its fruit, which has something the taste of a thoroughly 

 ripe medlar, but it is more sugary. 



Things remained thus until about the year 1859, when 

 th ° 1>uns Museui » o1 ' Natural History received a consign- 

 | meat from Mr. E. Simon in China, which contained a new 

 | species of Diospyros. The plant grew and flowered, and 

 shewed fruit in 1869. At first Mr. Carriere thought he had 

 the true D. Kaki, but soon discovered his error and de- 

 scribed the new plant as D. costata. Afterwards he attempted 

 to snow that the supposed D. Kaki cultivated in the South 

 v>as really a Nepalese species, which he proposed to call D. 

 oxburghii. In reply t0 thiS) Mr Decaigne dedared the 

 Plant named costata by Carriere to be no other than the D. 

 ScM-tse of Bunge. 



nalp 6 ^ ^^ WRS propagated and dis P ers ed under the 



.costata. We possess a fine specimen of it at 



m Touraine, where it grows vigorously. Its large 



