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hope that some of our cultivators who have leisure, will he induced 

 to see with what efTect. We think tlie remarks of M. Audouin are 

 worthy of reflection, and cannot l)ut lead to im|)ortant results. 



M. Audouin is a tliorouirh entomoiojrist, and, in directing his atten- 

 tion to the destruction of insects injurious to agriculture, is accom- 

 plishin<r muf'h more good than in merely studying their classification 

 and nomenclature. — Ed. 



Victoria regia Lindl. — Living plants of this vegetahle prodigy, 

 noticed in our Vol. IV., p. 211, have reached Demerara in safety, 

 and may soon be expected in Eiiuland, proliahly ere this. That 

 they will prove as cap;ihle of culrivatlou as tropical iVy mphaeacese, 

 cannot he doubted. {Bof. Res;;. Chronicle, Jiug. 1840.) 



A weeping common Oak, (Quercus pedunculata ))endula,) was 

 found in a bed of seedlings, sown at Ochrertyre, Scotland, in 1825. 

 It was planted on the lawn, at Ocditertyre House, and is now, (1840,) 

 thirty-three feet high, with regularly droofiing branches, w hich, after 

 they touch the grouml, run along it for some distance. Plants of it 

 have been y)ropairated by grafting on stems five or six feet high, 

 vvhieh form beautiful weeping trees. (Gard. Mag.) 



The roots of CE?io//ier« biennis L. (onagre French,) are eaten in 

 Germany, like those of scorzonera, and the points of the shoots 

 may be used in salads. The herbage woidd form a eood forajre for 

 cattle, which are very fond of it. (Annales des Sciences, Fhys- 

 iques. S;c.) 



Elbrus Seringeknn, (in compliment to the director of the Botanic 

 Garden of Lynns,) has I)een raised from seed of the M6\'us multi- 

 caulis, and is considered |)referable to that variety, from its hardi- 

 ness, and the largeness of its leaves. The fruit is small, and of a 

 dark vi(det color. (Id.) 



Gladiolus cardinulis, at Hafton Gardens, the seat of James Hunt- 

 er, Esq., in Arjjyleshire, Scotland, measures twenty-three feet in cir- 

 cumference, and exhibits u|)war(ls of one hundred stems, terminating 

 in spikes of its rich scarlet flowers. This plant, in common with 

 various others at Hafton, says much for the mildness of climate, and 

 does great cre<lit to the skill and care of the head gardener, Mr. Mc 

 Dermaid. (Glasgoio Courier.) 



Pumpkin Sugar. — We find a notice in the Gardener's Magazine, 

 of a method of manufacturing sugar from pumpkins, for which a 

 yjatent has been procured by M. L. Hoff"man, of Hungary. M. Hoff- 

 man, tOL^ether with M. Devay, has established a smwll manufactory of 

 the artiele in Zanidor, in which they have already olitained forty hun- 

 dred of sugar from pumpkins, a small part of which they have also 

 refined. One hundred weight of pum|)kins yields as much sugar as 

 one hundred weight of beet roots, but the space of a hectare, viz. 

 two acres, one rood, and thirty-five perches, yields three or four 

 times as larse a quantity of jtumpkins, (according to their weight,) 

 as the beet root: the s|)ace occupied by Indian corn growing between 

 the row's not being included, eight hundred vvei<.'ht of sugar could be 

 raised on sixteen hundred square toises, from which two hun<lred 

 hundred weight of pumpkins is obtained, and sometimes over two 

 hundred and sixty hundred of putrijjkins. M. Hoifman has obtained 

 from between twenty-six and twenty-seven hundred weight of pum|)- 

 kins, one hundred weight of sugar, and as much syrup. In making 

 the sugar, the pumpkins are cut in pieces, and then, with the rind, are 



