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European cultivation ; 2. By making it undergo, in the course of 

 successive generations, modifications different from those of the fruit 

 cultivated by us." I will take the liberty of making two remarks on 

 this note : 1st. There is a great tendency in seedlings raised from 

 apple, pear, and peach-trees to revert to something like wildings, i. e., 

 " trees with wild and austere fruit," and this is exhibited as strongly 

 in this country as it can possibly be in America. 2ndly. The mode 

 of transporting our best fruit-trees is not by seed, but by slips intended 

 for grafting. These should be stuck in the flat surface of a potato cut 

 in half, and these half potatoes arranged ""on some tenacious earth or 

 clay in shallow elm boxes, a large pane of thick tiling-glass being let 

 into the lid ; the lids should fit with some exactness, and the boxes 

 should be kept on the ship's decks. 



' Destroying weeds upon walks.' ' Correa viridiflora alba.' Va- 

 rieties of the Cherry. ' Pelargonium odoratum variegatum.' ' The 

 Nectarine a smooth Peach.' Mr. Calver, of Royalton, U.S., some 

 five or six years ago, planted a few thousand peach-stones. The 

 plants were in due time budded, except the end one of each row, 

 which was left as a marker. One of these last year produced a crop 

 of hondjide peaches and nectarines ; both were of small size, but well 

 flavoured. 



' Seedling Epacrises.' 



' The Genera and Species of Cultivated Ferns; by Mr. J. Houlston 

 and Mr. T. Moore.' The species described in the July number are — 

 Doryopteris sagittifolia, palmata, and collina ; Litobrochia grandi- 

 folia, denticulata, leptophylla, polita, and vespertilionis ; Lonchitis 

 pubescens ; Campteria biaurita ; Pteris longifolia, cretica, serrulata, 

 umbrosa, felosma, sulcata, Kingiana, crenata, lata, hirsuta, hetero- 

 phylla, arguta, tremula, aquiliua, and caudata ; and Onychium luci- 

 dum. The authors regard all those ferns which have what has been 

 termed the double indusium, and which I have separated as a genus, 

 under the name of Eupteris, as a single species. These are : — 



Pteris aquilina, Linn. Great Britain and Madeira. 



P. latiuscula, Desvaux. 



P. lanuginosa, Bory. Ceylon. 



P. lanuginosa, var. capensis. Mauritius and Abyssinia. 



P. decomposita, Presl. Sandwich Islands. 



P. caudata, Linneus. Mount Liban (St. Jago de Cuba), Jamaica. 



P. recurvata, Wallich. Nepal. 



P. arachnoidea, Kaulfuss. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Trinadad. 



P. escidenta, Forster. New Holland. 



