Literary Notices. 463 



This plant has no attractive beauty ; but its small greenish flowers are 

 highly fragrant, especially in the evening. It grows well in the green-house ; 

 but, when about to bloom, is benefited by a removal to a cool part of the 

 stove. Professor Lindley appends to the description of this species nu- 

 merous valuable remarks on its structure and that of allied plants : these 

 appertain to systematic botany. {Bot. Beg., July.) The exquisite fragrance 

 in the evening, and by night, of the common two-leaved orchis of English 

 woods, Platanth era bif61iai?ic/«. has been already declared in Vol. VII. p. 203. 



OrchidecE § Vandeae Lindley. 



2537. MAXILLA^RIA. 



viiidis Lindl. gteensepaled £ E] cu | my G.P.Li Rio Jan. 1829? D p.r.w Bot. reg. 1510 



The flower is radical, solitary, and globose ; the sepals green ; the petals 

 purple ; the lip lilac. The plant in the Horticultural Society's garden is 

 rather a weak-growing one ; requiring shade, much moisture to its leaves 

 and little to its roots, together with a high temperature, and decayed 

 vegetable mould. It seems to have no tendency to form those pseudo- 

 bulbs which are generally so characteristic of the genus. (Bot. Beg., July.) 

 CCXLVII. KsphodUecE. 



i 1053. ORNITHO GALUM. 



alliaceum.S.C. Allium-like IJ lA) or | au W Cliile 1821. O s.l Bot, cab. 1818 



Only two white blossoms are exhibited in the umbel figured, but this may 

 be the effect of weakness. The plant was sent home in the beginning of 1821 

 (query 1831) by Mr. Cumming. Messrs. Loddiges havegrown it in thegreen- 

 house, in a mixture of loam, peat, and vegetable earth. {Bot. Cab., June') 



1061. v^SPHO'DELUS 8869 luteus. 



2 sibiricus imrf/. Siberian ^ A or 2 ap.my Pa. Y Siberia 1829? Deo Bot. reg. 1507 



The seeds of this kind were received from Dr. Fischer, under the name 

 of A. sibiricus. Tt differs from A. luteus in its dwarfer stature, earlier and 

 paler flowers, more glaucous leaves, and shorter bracteas: Professor 

 Lindley cannot, however, on these accounts, consider it more than a 

 variety of that species. It is a perfectly hardy perennial, and requires to 

 be treated precisely in the same way as A. luteus. (Bot. Beg., July.) 



Art. VI. Literary Notices. 



Outlines of the First Principles of Horticulture, in one small volume, 

 18mo, are in preparation by John Lindley, Esq. A work which will be 

 hailed with delight by every gardener throughout the world. 



Tlie Apiarian's Guide, containing Practical Directions for the Manage- 

 ment of Bees upon the depriving System, is in prepararation by J. H. Payne, 

 of Bury St. Edmunds, author of " The Cottager's Guide, for the Manage- 

 ment of his Bees," a work distributed gratuitously among cottagers by the 

 Suffolk and Norfolk Apiarian Society. The Apiarian's Guide, the result of 

 thirty years' experience, will comprise useful and authentic information 

 relative to every department of apiarian science, and will render the most 

 inexperienced in the art capable of managing his bees at a trifling expense, 

 so as to obtain from them an annual supply of honey without destroying 

 them, leaving a sufficient quantity for their support throughout the winter. 

 Amongst other matter, an immediate remedy will be given for the sting. 

 The author has under his care a stock of bees, a swarm of May 1831, which, 

 in July of the same year, produced a glass of the finest honey weighing 

 19Jlbs., leaving, at the same time, upwards of 30 lbs. in the hive; and it 

 has already this year filled a glass of JO lbs., and is now filling a box which 

 will contain nearly the same quantity. The work is to be published by 

 subscription. 



