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REMARKS. 



On the name Hyacinth, Sec. — Yakinthos, is a name adopted from the ancient 

 Greeks, who applied it to the flower supposed to have sprung from the blood of 

 Ilyaciuthus, the favourite of Appola, when accidentally slain. Great differences 

 have arisen amongst commentators concerning the plant of the ancients, which 

 we cannot presume to settle, but there seems no paramount authority for the pre- 

 sent application of the name in question. — Smith. Linnaeus supposes it to 

 have been the wild Larkspur, Sprenoel, the common Gladiolus or Cornflag, 

 Martin and Fee, the Martagou Lily, while others have endeavoured to shew- 

 that the Hyacinths of the Greeks were same as the Vaccinia nigra of Virgil, or 

 the Bilberries of the English. Bot. Reg. 



On the Double yellow Rose. — "The double yellow Rose does not flower 

 with ine as a standard bush, in fact it does not blossom well except in certain 

 situations and soils. Three years ago I had buds of this rose as well as some of 

 the dark and of the sweet-scented Chinese Roses, inserted on strong shoots of a 

 musk cluster Rose, which is trained on the east front of my house. Last year, 

 both of the Chinese varieties flowered in great beauty during the whole of the 

 season; a few blossoms of the Yellow- Rose also opened finely. This year the 

 latter produced many buds, several became perfect flowers, and I think all would 

 have opened, had it not been for the unusual coolness of the spring, and the at 

 tacks of the green fly. The dark Chinese Rose succeeds particularly well, the 

 flowers are much larger than when grown on its own roots ; in fact my roses 

 have been the admiration of every person who has seen them. As the budding 

 season is now approaching, I mention this to you, that you may try how far the 

 Yellow Rose, so treated, will thrive in the garden of the Horticultural Society at 

 Chiswiek. 1 expect it will succeed particularly well, as it grows best in deep al- 

 luvial loams, on the banks of rivers. My buds were inserted ten feet from the 

 ground, and Mr. Knight thinks the large size of the blossoms of the dark Chi- 

 nese Rose, is owing to the distance the sap has to pass from the root before it 

 reaches the flower buds. 



June 9th. Hort. Transactions. 



Brlgmansia- — (or Datura of former years.) — The B. suaveolens is certainly 

 one of the most splendid flowering plants — whether it be a plant cultivated in a 

 pot with its thirty flowers, or growing in a conservatory without controul and 

 there producing its several hundreds, it is in each an object of admiration. There 

 is a delicacy and purity of splendour unequalled in any other flower — and at 

 night a fragrance most powerful and agreeable. The following mode of culture 

 was practised at Syston Park a year or two ago, with dwarf plants, in a most 

 successful manner; plants three feet high, having twenty (or upwards) blossoms. 

 Early in February, cuttings of the young wood, about three inches long, having 

 an eye in each, are taken and potted in sixty-sized pots, placed in a hotbed 

 frame of good temperature ; they soon take root, which is easily ascertained by 

 tlie roots protruding through the holes at the bottom of the pot When this is 

 discovered they are repotted into twenty fours — using a compost of well enriched 

 loamy soil, one half being leaf mould and rotten dung. The plants are kept in 

 the frame for a few weeks, during which period they are supplied freely with 

 liquid manure water. When the pot is pretty well filled with roots, the plants 

 are repotted into those three sizes larger. At whatever height it is desired to 

 have the plants the top is pinched off, and laterals are produced. When in the 

 frame a good moist heat is kept up, by sprinkling and watering, this is necessary 

 to prevent an attack of the red spider. When the plants cannot be kept longer, 

 for height, in the frame, they are removed into the greenhouse and repotted 

 when r< quisite, freely supplied with liquid manure, and syringed every evening 

 with water, particularly at the under side of the foliage. The lateral shoots will 

 produce a profusion of flowers at the height the lead was stopped, and continue 

 in bloom for a long time. 



Mail) "I lh( readers of tile Cabinet, will have heard of, or seen, the new species, 

 DOW called I!, sanguinea, raised from seed gathered by Mr. Crawley, at Guayquil, 

 in the stati "I Equador, and dowered for the first time in this country, in tin 

 colli ction of Miss Trail, llase Place, Kent, in 1834, I had a plant of thisspeciei 



