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: circumference of the 

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 items, 30; girth of one 

 about 10 inches; length 

 s ; width of the largest 

 nl in June; and at the 



taction of another spe- 

 cnt from Nicaragua by 



stem, and less hardy. 



— Exhibition at Philadelphia. — The works for the 

 exhibition gain in importance from clay to day. Each state 

 and each country that has signified its intention of sending 

 products to the exhibition will have a separate pavilion at 

 the disposal of its delegates. 



The area devoted to the purposes of the exhibition is 



rent railways are already 

 nth the exhibition. And a 

 :ourse of erection hard In. 

 English, will be strongly 

 culture will not be left in 



— On caenivoeous Plants. — From Prof. Ed. Morren 

 we have two extremely interesting pamphlets, embodying 

 the results of a series of experiments, undertaken by him 

 from reading Dr. Hooker's address and Mr. Darwin's recent 

 book on insectivorous plants. Mr. Morren does not arrive 

 at the same conclusions as the English naturalists. Although 

 he proved that the glands on the leaves of Drosera longifolia 

 and Pinguicula longifolia are the means of capturing and 

 causing the death of insects , he is of opinion that the latter 

 decay in the ordinary course of nature , and not through 

 the action of a parti* 'idar fluid analogous to pepsin, con- 

 veying the digested mass into the system of the plant. 



— Exhibition of Potatos. — On the 29 September, 

 Messrs. Abbis and Shirley Hibberd presided at a dinner, 

 given at the close of the international show of Potatos at 

 the Alexander Palace , London. The first prize of 10 guineas 

 was awarded to Mr. Dean of Ealing. The exhibition was a 

 great success , and it is proposed to hold another next year. 



— The teilobed Ceotons. — In our last number we 

 gave a figure of the first type of the race of Crotons having 

 three lobed or hastate leaves, of which Mr. Moore of 

 Sydney showed us some dried specimens at Florence. Several 

 varieties are spreading in cultivation , and it is as well that 

 we should come to some understanding as to the tribual 

 name to adopt for them collectively. Thus , in the Gardeners' 



j Chronicle for the current month (Oct. 2) there is a descrip- 

 \ tion , illustrated with wood-cuts , of one of these varieties 

 called C.Disraeli, Veitch. Simultaneously Mr. Bull adver- 

 tises for sale a similar form, under the name of C. trilobum. 

 It is our duty to put our readers , and more particularly 

 plant merchants, on their guard against these three different 

 names for the same, or very slightly different plants. We 

 would suggest giving to the new varieties of this race which 

 are sure to spring up the distinctive appellation of hasti- 

 ferum, adding the name of the sub-variety, for there is no 

 use in trying to evade the fact that they are the issue of 

 Codiaeum pietum. Hence we might say C. hastiferum, 

 Disraeli, C. hastiferum trilobum, etc. 



- Agave Consideeanti. — This handsome new species 

 was exhibited by Mr. De Smet at the late exhibition at 

 Cologne , who sold his stock of it to Mr. Peacock of London , ■ 

 the well-known amateur of this class of plants. He at once 

 telegraphed home for permission from Her Majesty the 

 Queen to dedicate to her this North American novelty, which 

 was granted. But there is a little difficulty in the way of 

 accepting this name. It is this : the same plant was intro- 

 duced into the Museum gardens at Paris, where for the 

 last six months it has borne the name of Agave Consideranti , 

 from the name of its introducer. Mr. De Smet was aware of 

 this when be bought the plant, and that nobody has the 

 right to rename a known plant. All the noise about this 

 curious plant from Texas, leads up to the discovery of a 

 ittle p,ece of horticultural dissimulation , which we cannot 

 Ed. Andee and W. B. H. 



' over in silence. 



