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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



HOSTICULTUBAL ITEUS. 



Condensed from Foraign Journals for the Genesee Farmer. 



TnEHE were ninety-two varieties of potatoes 

 eeut from Swedea to the laternational Exhibition. 



At a sale of orchids from Mr. Reed's collection, 

 a large Cymhidium elurneum was sold for over 

 eixty dollars. 



Thk Lady Downe's grape, says the London 

 Florist, is a very valuable one. It has a slight 

 Muscat aroma. 



The heaviest five dessert pears at the Interna- 

 tional Exliibitiou were Oalebasse Grosse, their 

 total weight being 5 lbs. 10 oz. 



A COEEE8PONDENT of the Journol of Horticul- 

 ture inquires how to keep green tree frogs. They 

 are ornamental additions to a fern case. 



In Mr. Wood's nursery, Maresfield, Sussex is a 

 camellia which has endured the frosts of thirty 

 winters, and is now green and flourishing. 



Lady Dorotot Nevill is continuing her experi- 

 ments upon the Ailanthus silk-worm, and finds 

 that they endure the cold nights without any pro- 

 tection. 



The Viola pyrola/olia, a dwarf hardy herba- 

 ceous plant, has lately been introduced from Pata- 

 gonia by Messrs. Yeitoh, of Exeter. It is very 

 beautiful. 



The Golden Hamburg grape is still being dis- 

 cussed in the various English periodicals. One 

 pronounces it excellent, and another too poor to be 

 cultivated. 



The Oardeners' Magazine of Botany recom- 

 mends giving more attention to the cultivation of 

 aloes, as tliey are easily raised and many of them 

 very beauliful. 



Among the many decorations of the Legion of 

 Honor which were given by the Emperor of the 

 French on the 15th of August, three of them were 

 given to distinguished horticulturists. 



Ix the Gurdeners' Chronicle, in a short article 

 signed " Potato," that useful root offers itself as a 

 suitable material for paper, and gives quite good 

 proofs of its qualifications for this promotion. 



One of the best English rose-growers, Mr. 

 Wood, says that roses must not grow many years 

 togetiier in the .same soil. He was the introducer 

 of the Duchess of Norfolk, which has taken so many 

 prizes. He has one now in his garden, budded in 

 July, 18G1, which has made a " clean straight 

 »Loot of from 10 to 12 feet.'* 



The London Florist has a colored print of the 

 Rhododendron Princess Alice. The flowers are 

 white and delicately perfumed. It is of a dwarf, 

 bushy habit, and has flat, clean-looking foliage. 



M. Vkrlot gives in the Revue Rorticole a short 

 description of a new Zinnia lately imported from 

 Mexico. Its flowers are a fine rich orange, shaded 

 in the center. It is called Zennia Ghiesireghettii. 



The London Journal of Horticulture has quite 

 a scientific account of Panama hats. It says that 

 plaiting the straw is hard work — common quality 

 taking a day or two, and fine ones upward of three 

 months. 



The "Warrington Plant Case, an engraving of 

 which is ' given in the Gardeners^ Magazine of 

 Botany, is a combination of the aquarium and the 

 "Wardean Case, being covered like the latter and 

 also partly filled with water. 



The Journal of Horticulture says that when a 

 Wistaria Sinensis does not flower, close prun- 

 ing is the remedy. The shoots should be thinned 

 out, and on every well-ripened bud, whether it 

 be on a short spur or a long shoot, you may expect 

 a bunch of flowers. 



TnE Eemie Horticole of September 16th has a 

 colored plate of a new pear — " Souvenier Favre." 

 It was introduced in 1860, and in 1861 received 

 from the Imperial Society of France a silver medal. 

 It ripens in October, but will last through Novem- 

 ber and into December. 



In Mr. Beaton's account of the Gourds at the 

 Great International Exhibition he says the Ameri- 

 can Gourds, whether Federal or Confederate, seem 

 really to come within Bdbns' meaning of the pud- 

 ding race, and to be a great help in filling up a 

 valley in the regions of the inner man. 



The lievue Horticole for October has an ex- 

 quisitely-colored plate of Canna rotundifora. 

 Tlie leaves are quite round and of a brilliant green, 

 slightly shaded; the flowers are a vivid scarlet, 

 and the spathe is quite long. TMs is a seedling, 

 accidentally discovered among some Canna discolor 

 in the garden of M. Annee. 



M. Jules de Liroe d'Arioles proposes to cover 

 fruit trees with fine powder or ashes to protect 

 them from the frost, as he says it has often been 

 remarked that fruit trees planted near a public 

 road were not as much affected by frost as those in 

 the interior of the garden, and it is thought that 

 the dust arising from the road is the cause of this 

 difference. 



