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laciniata we can supply, it grows about half a yard high. The Bignonia we 

 will inquire about. The Ipomea will do in a warm conservatory, but blooms 

 later in the summer than in a plant stove ; it is, however, far surpassed by the 

 I. Learii. a more rapid grower, and a much more profuse bloomer. Both, how- 

 ever, well deserve a place wherever they will flourish. — Conductor.] 



REMARKS. 



On Abutilon Vitifoi.ium, &c. — Having been a subscriber to your " Cabinet" 

 from its first commencement, I think it is but proper to correct any error into 

 which that useful publication may inadvertently fall. 



In the notices of new and rare plants appears under the head Nurseries, &c. 

 No. 18, September Number, Abutilon Vitifolium. Three plants were raised from 

 seeds five years since by Captain Cottingham, Belfield, near Dublin. It is per- 

 fectly hardy, stands in an open exposed situation, nut on a south border. The 

 foliage is larger than any vine leaf, evergreen, and now upwards of eight feet 

 high, growing rapidly. 



It is in truth a noble evergreen, perhaps the greatest ornament to our pleasure 

 grounds yet introduced. 



There are also growing in the open air, in the same gentleman's gardens, 

 Ceanothus Azureus, covering nearly thirty feet of wall, Carmichaelis Australis, 

 Vestia Lycioides, Escalonia Rubra and Alba, Philladerphus Gordoniana, toge- 

 ther with many others hitherto supposed to be tender. 



Dublin, September 14, 1840. 



On the Prangus pabularia. — Mr. Vigne (Personal Narrative of a visit to 

 Ghuyris, Kabul, and Afghanistan) says, " I have long supposed the Silphium of 

 Arrian to be the Prangus of Mr. Moorcroft. At least, I know of nothing else 

 that is so husbanded as food for cattle, excepting perhaps the willow-leaves in 

 Kashmir. It is in favour of this theory that the Prangus was well known to 

 the ancients as a gigantic species of parsley. I have seen it growing at a 

 height of 6000 feet, in Kashmir, and in ranges between that and 8000 feet. I 

 find that Dr. Royle is of the same opinion. He informs me that the seed of 

 the Prangus {Prangus pabularia) is brought down by the northern merchants, 

 and sold in the bazaars of Northern India under the name of" Fiturasalyon," 

 to which name, in Persian works, is attached a translation of the description of 

 the Petroselinon, (ntrgoiriXiviv, or rock-parsley. — Diosc. lib. 3. § 77.) Mr. Masson, 

 I think, told me that he imagined the Silphium to have been the scented worm- 

 wood (Artemisia) which is so common throughout the East. I did not find it 

 (the Prangus) on the Suliman range, though perhaps it may exist there." — See 

 page 100, 101. 



It has been ascertained that the Prangus Pabularia has been tried on a large 

 scale and in various ways in "England ; but no instance of the germination of 

 the seeds has occurred. Probably it has beeu imperfectly preserved, damaged, 

 or too dry ; would it be impossible to procure from some person on the spot a 

 sample carefully collected, and preserved, and judiciously forwarded ? The pre- 

 sence of the Northern Indian army may afford some facilities at present, by 

 means of friends and connexions of scientific individuals on the spot. 



Transcriber's Note. 



[We sowed the seeds sent us, hut none appear to vegetate yet. By a power- 

 ful microscope we found a grub had destroyed the seed we examined. — Con- 

 ductor.] 



Pillar Roses. — Several of our correspondents have obligingly attended to 

 the request of Azalea in giving a list of Pillar Roses; to what has thus been 

 given, we extract the following descriptions from Mr. Rivers's excellent publica- 

 tion, 'The Rose Fancier's Guide,' a new edition of which has recently appeared, 

 and in which are many additions to what was in the first edition. We strongly 

 recommend the work to all rose fanciers. 



" The Bourbon Rose (Rosa Bourboniana). — It is now, perhaps, about twelve 



