Notes and Gleanings. 179 



Mildew. — At the present date (Aug. 12), mildew has appeared on the fol- 

 lowing varieties of grape-vines, those named first being most affected : Dana, 

 Delaware, Diana, Hamburg, Clara, and To Kalon (bad) ; Creveling and Rogers's 

 15 (slightly); and lona and Israella in the worst possible situation — wet and 

 undrained — are a little aifected on the lower leaves. The above-mentioned 

 vines are in a garden where the soil is very rich and damp ; but in a little vine- 

 yard I have on raised banks or terraces of light sandy soil, perfectly drained, 

 the lona, Israella, Adirondac, Delaware, and Rogers's 15, do not show a speck 

 of mildew. The Una and Cottage, Mr. Ball's new seedlings, are perfectly 

 healthy in the wet soil of the garden. 



The fruit of Rogers's 15 in the same situation is mildewed a little, and some 

 clusters of the 19 are affected with a kind of black-rot. 



Allen's Hybrid is growing in various places in the worst part of the garden, 

 green, vigorous, and untouched by mildew. 



In the garden of Alfred Loring, Esq., of Hingham, Mass., I recently saw 

 beautifully healthy vines of the Allen in full bearing, and also the Montgomery 

 Grape with very fine bunches. y. M. M., Jim. 



Aristolochia goldieana. — This remarkable West-African species flow- 

 ered for the first time in England last summer in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. 

 Its flowers from the base of the tube to the apex, measuring along the curvature, 

 are twenty-six inches in length ; and across the mouth, eleven inches in breadth. 

 It was managed thus : Early in spring, the tuber was repotted in a mixture of 

 two parts turfy loam, one of leaf-mould, and one of sharp sand, being watered 

 but sparingly at first. In autumn, the stem died back to within three or four 

 inches of the pot, from which water was entirely withheld during winter. The 

 temperature of the pit in which the plant was brought into bloom ranged from 

 65° to 70°, with a slight bottom-heat. 



Pyrethrum Golden Feather. — This pretty and distinct dwarf-growing, 

 yellow-leaved variety of the common feverfew has proved itself, during the past 

 summer, to be a very useful and effective bedding-plant ; its dwarf, feathery habit 

 and deep golden color forming an elegant contrast to the other colored-leaved 

 plants now so much employed. We have used it as an edging to a mass of 

 .(4 ;;/i2rr(2«//z«j r«(5^r with exceUent effect. The Floral Committee of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, too, has at last become satisfied of its merits, and g'ven 

 it a first-class certificate. 



Of all the palms, ChaiiKxrops excelsa is the hardiest. C. humilis, which is 

 indigenous in the south of Europe and grows well at Montpellier, is very hardy 

 when adult, but tender in the young state. M. Sahul, a nursery-man of Mont- 

 pellier, had, side by side, beds of young plants of C. humilis and of C. excelsa, of 

 one or two years' growth, each plant having three or four small leaves, exposed 

 to a severe frost in January last (therm. 10° Fah.) ; and all those of C. /uanilis 

 were destroyed, while those of C. excelsa were unhurt. Adult plants of c'. 

 humilis were not injured. 



