122 General Notices. 



commendation. Perhaps you can refer to it more readily 

 than I can. 



Feb. 2\st, 1848. 



Our thanks are due to Mr. Teschemacher for his reply to 

 the query of our correspondent, in regard to the management 

 of that beautiful plant, the Epiphyllum Russellid?»/m. Few 

 of the Cacti deserve so much at the cultivator's hands as this 

 brilliant species, and all lovers of the family must be highly 

 gratified to learn the routine adopted by Mr. Teschemacher to 

 produce such excellent results, not only with this species, but 

 with others, more particularly the too much neglected, but 

 lovely Echinoc actus Eyriesii, a plant which is so admirably 

 adapted to parlor cultivation, that every bod}'' should possess 

 it. Mr. Teschemacher has paid a just tribute to the merits of 

 the Cacti. Flourishing as they will, where most plants present 

 only a " half-starved vegetation", — they present the strongest 

 claims to the attention of all who love window gardens, and 

 who love to see a thriving vegetation, though it be in the sin- 

 gular or grotesque form of the Cacti tribe. 



We are glad our correspondent has alluded to the new 

 variety of cabbage introduced by Mr. Colman ; a few heads 

 were given to us last fall by Mr. L. Stone, and we were struck 

 with their peculiar pointed and sugar-loaf form. Upon receiv- 

 ing the above, we immediately turned to our volume where 

 the Pomeranian Cabbage is noticed (X. p. 98), and we have 

 no doubt it is the same variety. So delicious a vegetable is 

 deserving of extensive cultivation, and the testimony of Mr. 

 Teschemacher to its excellence, is sufficient to recommend it 

 to all cultivators. — Ed. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices. 



On the Art of Hybridizing Flowers. — Although hybridizing, as an art, be 

 of recent date, there is not the least doubt but that Nature herself practised 

 it from time immemorial, the agents employed for the purpose being winds 

 and insects, and, of the latter, more particularly the bee. But he stated 



