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whose formation can by any one be rendered evident, the inner leaf form- 

 ings appare7itlys the cells of the potato in which the starch is deposited, 

 while the enioraypijig leaf forms the skin. When this shoot is about two 

 inches long, we introduce it carefully into a large bunch of soft moist moss, 

 and in ten days or a fortnight, a minute potato, not larger than a duck- 

 shot, will be found instead of the two terminal leaves before mentioned. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM. 

 By H. Meigs. 



This interesting plant is now cultivated in many varieties, extensively. 

 From being a.' gold-flower, as its name implies, it has become of many 

 colors. The metal-like durability of its buds and full blown flowers caused 

 it to be call the Eternal and Immortal. Lindley, in his Vegetable King- 

 dom, places it among the Asteracete, making about sixty in number under 

 the title Chrysanthemum only, and of the whole class of Asters he makes 

 one hundred and one genera. 



Grenus Chrysanthemum contains Steiroglossa, Lidbeckia, Gamolepis, 

 Lasthenia, Hologymne, Psllothamnus, Jacquemontia, Spiridanthus, Coino- 

 gyne, Egletes, Xerobius, Eyselia, Venegasia, Leucopsidium, Xanthocepha- 

 lum, Phymaspermum, Hisutsua, Braeanthemum, Nananthea, Leucan- 

 themum, Phalacrodiscus, Phalacroglossum, Diabasis, Enuchoglossum, 

 Phalacrocarpum, Prolongoa, Adenachsena, Matricaria, Pyrethrum, Gymno- 

 cline, Xanthoglossa, Coleostephus, Tridactylina, Dendrathema, Allardia, 

 Chrysanthemum, Ismelia, Pinardia, Centrospermum, Heteranthemis, Cen- 

 trachaena, Spermoptera, Mayarsa, Preauxia, Monoptera, Stigmatotheca, 

 Argyranthemum, Dimosphotheca, Meteorina, Grattenhofia, Cardispermum, 

 Lestibodia, Blaxium, Castalis, Rutidocarpgea, Arnoldia, Triplocarpoea, 

 Acanthotheca, Monolopia, Steirodiscus, Schistostemium, Chlamysperma, 

 Villanova, Brachymeris, Brachystylis and Jacosta. 



I have Chrysanthemum buds and full blown flowers from my garden 



thirty years ago, and not more faded than if made of any metal except 



gold. 



Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Part 1. No. 41. Vol. 19. Pre- 

 sented by the Society to the American Institute. 



We are always pleased with this journal, and extract good from it. 



ON THE MANAGEMENT OF BREEDING CATTLE.— A Prize 



Essay. 



By Edward Bowly. 



"Success depends on good forms and constitutions. I refer on this 

 point to a letter written on this subject, by Major Rudd, to an American 

 friend, many years since, on pure Short-horns, which is equally applicable 

 to any breed of cattle at the present time, viz : 



"A small and fine head, a capacious chest, the shoulders lying back in 

 the body, the ribs round and barrel-like, the back straight from the neck 

 to the top of the tail, the loins wide, the hind quarters long and straight, 



