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the circumstance to effect a few improvements. It is the best book of its class for 
the cultivator to keep at hand for ready reference. 
TILLANDSIA TENUIFOLIA, a pretty plant, with tufted grass-like, or rather luzula- 
like leafage and delicate purplish inflorescence, is figured in the August number of 
La Belgique Horticole. Inthe same number are figures of Bromelia Joinvillei, a 
very showy plant ; Miltonia Clowesi v. Lamarcheana, Cattleya dolosa, and Bilbergia 
nutans, 
PRESERVING THE CoLours or Driep Fitowers.—M. Boulade recommends the 
following plan for preserving the colours of flowers of the herbarium :—Lay out the 
flowers between several sheets of unsized paper—filtering paper; place these sheets 
between two fire-bricks, and put the whole in a stove or oven heated to 60° or 70° 
Cent. Change the papers after an hour. After two or three hours the flowers will 
be sufficiently dried, and their colours preserved. 
CoRRESPONDANCE BoraniQvE, edited by Professor Morren, is a singularly useful 
book to those who have occasion to correspond with botanists and horticulturists 
beyond the range of their home circle. It contains a complete list of gardens, 
botanical professorships, museums of botany, and representatives of botany and 
horticulture in all parts of the world, the arrangement being geographical, and the 
whole being supplemented by a good index. The latest issue is corrected to June, 
1876. Copies may be obtained at No. 1, Boverie, Liége. 
A FLoweRInG BRANCH OF CEDRELA SINENSIS Was exhibited at a recent meet- 
ing of the Académie des Sciences, Paris, by Professor Decaisne. This is an 
exceedingly ornamental hardy tree, resembling Ailantus zlandulosus in habit and 
foliage. It was introduced a few years ago by Messrs. L. V. Geoffroy and E. Simon, 
representatives of France at the Court of Peking; but it was originally discovered 
in 1743 by the Rey. Father Incarville, who transmitted specimens to Bernard de 
Jussieu. Being a native of the north of China, it is perfectly hardy in the climate 
of London; and from the descriptions of it in French jonrnals, it is a great acqui- 
sition to the small number of hardy trees with pinnate leaves. The white flowers 
are small, but numerous, and borne in erect panicles often more than eighteen inches 
in length. 
Tur LavenpErR Crop has been unusually abundant this year. Not half so 
much attention is paid by the public at large to lavender as it deserves. Of the 
different species which have been described by botanists only two are commercially 
valuable—the common lavender, Lavandula vera, and the French lavender, 
L. spica, The former yields the fragrant oil, the solution of which in spirits of 
wine is called lavender water; while the latter is used by painters on porcelain, 
and in the preparation of certain varnishes, Still, lavender has a right to com- 
plain of the slight amount of popular homage paid to it. The truth must be told— 
it is going out of fashion, Yet chemists declare that lavender flowers constitute no 
less than ten per cent. of the ingredients in eau de Cologne, the remaining compo- 
nents being balm, mint, marjoram, thyme, rosemary, hyssop, wormwood, angelica, 
cardamoms, juniper berries, carraway seeds, cinnamon, nutmegs, cloves, orange peel, 
jasmine, essence of roses, and bergamot. It is at the same time questionable 
whether this wonderful combination can in the long run approach in simple fra- 
grance our good old English lavender water. 
PROPAGATING XANTHOCERAS SORBIFOLIA.—M. Riviére states that this beautiful 
new shrub is rather difficult to raise from cuttings in the ordinary way, but that it 
may be propagated with the greatest freedom by means of root-cuttings formed from 
small portions of the root. 
NEW BOOKS. 
Tur Fern Parapise: A PLEA ror THE CuLturE oF Ferns, By Francis 
Gzorce Hxatu (Hodder and Stoughton).—The brave pioneer in the clearing out 
of trespassers from Epping Forest, and insuring to the people undisputed right to 
its enjoyment as a recreation ground for ever, has in this charming little volume 
given proof that his love of the country is as genuine as his political activity 
suggested. Mr. Heath, in his “ Fern Paradise,” discourses pleasantly on ferns as 
October. 
