228 Glyptostrohis Pendiilns. 



The conspicua is a promising kind to cross with the purpurea, glanca, and 

 acuminata. By resorting to this method, the pollen might be preserved till 

 these later blooming kinds are fitted for its reception. 



For the same purpose, and in the same manner, the pollen of the grandi- 

 flora might be collected at the South, and conveyed to the North. 



Who among our ingenious young people will test these suggestions? 



lo. M. SoULANGEANA. — This is a very distinct variety, raised, it is said, 

 by Loudon, from a seed of a conspicua which stood near a piupiirea ; but, 

 according to Meehan, it is a cross between the purpurea and acujninata. 

 If either be correct, the fact is established that Nature has produced one 

 hybrid in the vegetable kingdom ; and it may be received as an assurance 

 by the phytologist, that, by the appliances of art and science, he may pro- 

 duce others in unlimited numbers. 



The leaves and flowers of this variety appear coincidently about ten 

 days after the conspicua ceases its bloom ; and, in favorable seasons, a suc- 

 cession of smaller and less perfect flowers are put forth even as late as the 

 month of September. 



Seeds in small quantities are produced, especially by trees exposed in 

 open grounds. Several seedlings have been raised in this vicinity. They 

 vary slightly from their parent and from each other. 



Loudon says that the Soulangeana " can hardly rank as a tree, though of 

 much stronger growth than Xho. purpurea." Had he seen the sturdy speci- 

 mens of both the Soulangeana and conspicua growing in my grounds, he 

 would have considered them entitled to the appellation of trees. They are 

 on acuminata stocks. Dr. Jared P. Kirtland. 



Cleveland, O. 



(To be continued.) 



Glyptostrobus pendulus. — A plant cultivated at Kew, side by side with 

 Taxodium distichum. Was considered to be merely a variety of that species, 

 to which it is strikingly similar ; but Professor Oliver, having examined the 

 flowers last year, observed some points of difference, by which he has 

 succeeded in referring it to the Chinese Glyptostrobus pendulus. It forms 

 an elegant, straight-stemmed, slender tree, forty feet high, with horizontal 

 or slightly pendulous branches, which are deciduous in autumn. — Botani- 

 cal Magazine. 



