General Notices. 509 



of green, red and yellow in them." The anterior petal is 

 wholly red, and of remarkable shape ; all of it is a sack, or, 

 as Dr. Wight observes, there is no limb. At Kew it flowered 

 in the greenhouse, but with ns it would probably be as easily 

 grown in the open air as the common Balsam. If not, it will 

 be a very fine summer greenhouse plant. {Bot. Mag., Sept.) 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General JVotices. 



Propagation of Plants from Buds. — In the month of March, 1852, 

 I disbudded several plants of the " Daphne Laureola," and left the buds 

 scattered on the ground beneath. A montli or five weeks afterwards I was 

 not a little surprised to find that they had almost all sent out roots. This 

 hint induced me to make experiments upon other plants; and at the end of 

 April I took several slips of the "Lagerstrasmia Indica," a stove shrub, 

 which had just burst forth, and had advanced to the length of from twelve 

 to twenty lines, taking care to reserve with each a small portion of the 

 parent bark. I then stripped them to the extent of seven or eight lines from 

 the base upwards, and planted them in a pot filled to the depth of two inches 

 with broken potsherds, and above with a compost, two years old, of willow 

 mould, the refuse of the vintage, and pit-sand well washed. They were 

 then well watered, and placed in a hotbed under a bell-glass, and care was 

 taken to shade them and give them air ■when necessary. The first fort- 

 night several damped off from the glass, not having been property attended 

 to; but on the twenty-second day after they were planted, I found that the 

 rest had piissod from the herbaceous to the half-woody state, and the term- 

 inal bud seemed to announce that there would shortly be a rise of the sap. 

 Six days after this I pricked them out into small separate pots, and dis- 

 covered that each had made a thick tuft of roots, and twenty-seven out of 

 thirty-eight succeeded completely. I tried the same plan, and with equal 

 success, upon four varieties of the " Metrosideros," upon the " Melaleuca," 

 "Clethra arborea," and " Magnolia grandiflora," besides Acacias, Roses, 

 and many other stove and greenhouse plants. By this means I have ob- 

 tained a considerable number of plants fit for sale, if so inclined, in the 

 course of twelve months, remarkable for tlieir strength and beauty, and from 

 eighteen to twenty-four inches in height. 



This simple method, I think, may be applied to all kinds of plants ; and, 

 as I have never seen it alluded to in any horticultural work, I venture to 

 think that, if you consider it worth publication, it may be of some service to 

 practical gardeners. 



[We have seen this method practised with admirable success in a small 

 nursery near London.] — [Hor. Cab., 1853, p. 18'2.) 



Culture of Pyramidal China Asters. — M. Truffaut, well known 

 as a good practical horticulturist at Versailles, has published in the Rtvue 



