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THE CANADIAN HORTTCtTLTtTRIBt. 



it appears to occupy at present. It re- 

 minds one of an old favorite greenhouse 

 plant, viz., Clethra arborea, but sur- 

 passes it in its crop of ornamental ber- 

 ries and the pleasing fragrance of its 

 flowers. Although there are about half 

 a dozen specific names attached to this 

 genus in gardens, they are capable of 

 being reduced to two, viz., E. dentatus 

 and the subject of our article. Alto- 

 gether there are some fifty species of 

 Elaeocarpus distributed over Tropical 

 Asia and Australia. Many of them 

 are found in India, where they form 

 beautiful trees, bearing in many cases 

 racemes of berries as large as a Black 

 Hamburgh Grape. The freedom with 

 which they produce their flowers in a 

 young state renders them available for 

 pot cultivation, and where room can be 

 spared for them to develop themselves 

 they form handsome evergreen shrubs 

 when planted out in a greenhouse bor- 

 der. 



E. CYANEUS is an old garden plant, 

 having been cultivated at Kew and else- 

 where eighty yeai*s ago. Its foliage is 

 very leathery in texture, and the nerves 

 are conspicously reticulate. The flowers 

 are pure white, and each petal is divid- 

 ed into abont a dozen acute lobes, M'hich | 

 give the flowers a most delicately fring- 

 ed appearance. The figure in the Bot- 

 anical Register named E. reticulatus is 

 E. cyaneus. It is a native of Australia, 

 about Queensland, New South Wales, 

 and Victoria. 



E. DENTATUS is an Indian species, dis- 

 tinguished from the above by its brown 

 bark, the silkiness of its branches when 

 young, and the silky down which clothes 

 the underside of the foliage. The flow- 

 ers are smaller than those of E. cyaneus 

 and not so deeply fringed. 



The propagation of these plants may 

 be effected by means of cuttings, which 

 strike freely at any season of the year, 

 or by sowing the berries in the spring, 



when they germinate freely and grow 

 quickly into flowering plants. A loamy 

 soil suits them, and plenty of water 

 should be given at all seasons of the 

 year. An ordinary greenhouse tempe- 

 rature will be found suitable for them. — 

 The Garden. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Transactions and Reports of the 

 Fruit Growers' Association of Nova 

 Scotia, 1883. 



Proceedings of the American Asso- 

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 Salesmen for 1883. 



American Treasury of Facts, 

 statistical, financial and political. H. 

 H. Warner & Co., Rochester, N. Y. 



Mineral Resources of the Domi- 

 nion of (Canada, specially adapted for 

 capitalists and settlers : Ottawa, 1882. 



The Calligkaph Quarterly, 25cts. 

 per annum, A. J. Henderson, 77 St. 

 Patrick street, Toronto, General Agent 

 for Canada. 



Book of Engravings, by A Blanc, 

 314 North 11th Street, Philadelphia, 

 1884, electrotypes of which are for sale 

 by the publisher. 



Shorthand Writer. — A monthly 

 eight page paper devoted to the inter- 

 ests of shorthand writers, published by 

 D. P. Lindsley, Plainfield, New Jersey. 



Forestry in Europe, and other pa- 

 pers, by B. G. Northrop, Secret;iry of 

 the Board of Education, published by 

 Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor,' New 

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The Floral World is a new month- 

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 at $1 a year. The first number is well 

 tilled with information of special inter- 

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Autumn Descriptive Catalogue 

 and price list of American grape vines, 

 small fruit plants, trees, &c., of George 



