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January 2, 1849. 



R. T. Underbill, of Croton Point, in the Chair. 



Mr. Meigs presented and read the following translations made by 

 him from the latest periodicals and other papers received at the 

 Institute. 



Revue Horticole. Paris, September. 1848. 



Grafting Strawberries in Rose Bushes. 



M. Coquillard, gardener of Mr. James Rothschild, has grafted by 

 approach, the runners of strawberries on eglantine and monthly roses. 

 Many specimens of this kind of grafting were in the last exhibition 

 of the Horticultural Society, and we have also seen them at a flower 

 dealers' in the Boulevard des Italiens. These grafts attract great at- 

 tention from the promenaders of that quarter, who behold bunches 

 of strawberries upon rose bushes and eglantine, and are quite aston- 

 ished at the phenomenon. But such graftings are not new. We 

 have seen the tomato grafted on the potato — the artichoke upon the 

 teazle — tobacco on the mullen, (Bouillon blanc) the melon on the 

 cucumber, &c., are plants of the same family, as well as the rose and 

 strawberry, but these ill assorted unions are of short duration, after 

 some weeks of this common life, each separates from the other, leav- 

 ing a deep and often mortal wound. 



The following is the method pursued by M. Couquillard, viz: He 

 plants in pots, in autumn, his eglantine and roses, and at the foot of 

 them, monthly strawberries. In the spring, when the strawberries 

 are grown, he chooses the best of them, and grafts by incision, the 

 buds of the strawberries, in the eglantine and rose bushes. 



Annales De La Sogtete Centrale D'Horticulture de France. 

 Paris, August, 1848. 



Report on a Treatise upon the Fuchsia by Felix Porchier, by Mens. Boussiere, 

 Secretary of the Society. 



I present to you an analysis of this Treatise upon the Fuchsia, its 

 origin and its culture. The work is preceded by an introduction, 

 and terminates with an account of the species and varieties of Fuch- 

 sia, its name and its synonyms, a table of the varieties of the first 

 and second order, and finally by a list of the principal gardeners 

 who cultivate it in France. The incessant progress, the rapid me- 

 tamorphoses of this flower, are due to the introduction of new bo- 



