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is now living, I cannot say, or he could furnish you with all particulars. We 

 have grown it, I should think, twenty years ; which is, probably, as long as it 

 has been cultivated; but of this I am not certain. It is distinguished by its 

 bright green leaves (from which it takes its name), and also by the light colour 

 and smooth round wood of the young shoots. — Frederick Maclcie. Nortvich 

 Nursery, Dec. 1836. 



Acficia and Eucalijpfus in the Norwich Niirseri/. — The acacias are looking 

 well, and are covered with flower buds. One of them lost its leader last winter, 

 which somewhat spoils the appearance of it; but it has made a vigorous growth 

 this season. I have tried a good many species of Eucalyptus abroad ; bat I 

 think none will stand our winters so well as the E. alpina. It grows much 

 slower than any of the others ; and its wood, therefore, gets better ripened. 

 Both E. robusta and E. resinifera have had their younger shoots injured this 

 autumn ; but E. alpina looks as well as it did at midsummer. It grows on 

 the highest parts of Mount Wellington, and was thence sent to me by James 

 Backhouse. — Id. 



Growing Grajjes in ilie open Air in Herefordshire. — Mr. Moss, gardener at 

 Eastnor Castle, is one of the best and most successful grape-growers in Eng- 

 land, both in and out of doors. He had 5001b. of grapes last season, from a 

 black Hambui'g vine ; the circumference of the stem of which, at the collar, 

 or surface of the ground, was under 4 in. In 1835, the crop on the same vine 

 was equally as heavy. Mr. Low of Clapton, and many other nurserymen, 

 saw both crops. In 1833, I had three bushels of bunches of the esperione 

 grape on one plant, in the open air, 12 years old, and 5 in. in the circum- 

 ference of its stem : several of the bunches were 2ilb. ; audit has produced 

 equally good crops since. The border was neither dug nor dunged in any 

 way whatever for the last eight \ears. The above is adduced in order to 

 afford me an opportunity of saying that 1 do not think that the circumference 

 or diameter of the stem of a vine has anything at all to do with the weight 

 of crop that vine is capable of producing. Mr. Moss, 1VL-. Brown, gar- 

 dener at Stoke Edith Park, and several other gardeners in this neighbourhood, 

 are all of the same opinion ; but all of them approve of Mr. Hoare's Treatise 

 on the Vine in every other respect but this. — D. Beaton. Haffield, near 

 Ledbury, March 24. 1837. 



Trimestrian, or Three-month, Wheats. — I am persuaded that the term 

 trimestrian is not applicable to wheats grown in any of our British climates. 

 The shortest time in which I have raised wheat by culture, adapted for the 

 general purposes of husbandry, has been 154 days, instead of 90 days, the 

 trimestrian period. I suspect, however, that most kinds of wheat will ripen 

 in six months, if judiciously treated. — John Le Couteur. Bellevue, Jersey, 

 Feb. 27. 1837. 



Col. Le Couteur informs us that his collection of wheat in actual cultiva- 

 tion, consisted of more than 150 varieties or subvarieties, previously to receiv- 

 ing the 54 sorts which, through the kindness of M. Vilmorin (see p. 45.), we 

 were enabled to send him. Col. Le Couteur has lately published a small 

 work On the Varieties, Properties, and Classification of Wheat, of which a very 

 interesting notice will be found in tlie British Press for Feb. 24., and another 

 in the Scotsman of Feb. 8. Col. Le Couteur being in correspondence with 

 Mr. Lawson of Edinburgh and M. Vilmorin of Paris, all his sorts of wheat 

 will speedily be tried by the best cultivators in Europe. When an amateur 

 cultivator, such as Col. Le Couteur, is seconded by tradesmen so scientific, so 

 ardent, and so extensively connected, as Mr. Lawson and M. Vilmorin, the 

 greatest good to society is likely to be the result. — Ccnd. 



SCOTLAND. 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh. — JMarch 9. Professor Graham, who was 

 in the chair, alluded to the flourisiiing condition of the Society, wliich, 

 although not yet a year old, had enrolled above a hundred members, ex- 

 clusive of the British and Foreign honorary members recently elected. After 



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