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dler, who has been nineteen jears engaged in the culture of RoseSj 

 and has now annually from twelve to fifteen thousand Eglantine 

 (sweet briar) stocks grafted with all the most precious kinds of roses, 

 among them many raised from seed. He has 1500 varieties of roses. 



The garden of Mons. Gau'hier contains 75,000 Eglantines en- 

 grafted with roses, of which 6,000 are choice. These eglantine 

 stocks are about forty inches high, with the roses engrafted on their 

 tops, and the ground is every where covered with strawberries, chiefly 

 the Alpine. Among the roses are those fine kinds from the Isle of 

 Bourbon. 



Mons. Jacques, chief gardener of the king, at Neuilly, has plant- 

 ed a great many rose seeds and obtained many very fine varieties. 

 He sowed the seeds of the rose of Bengal, from which we now have 

 roses called of the Isle of Bourbon. He plants rose seeds every year. 



PRESERVING VEGETABLES. 



Monsieur Masson, Gardener of the Royal Society, presented cab- 

 bages leaves dryed and prepared for keeping by a process of his in- 

 vention. These will keep perfectly good on the longest voyages, and 

 when cooked, almost resume their fresh condition, and will be of 

 great value as anti-scorbutic. Also radishes, turnips, spinach, chic» 

 cory, sorrel and some other plants, treated in the same way. 



MUSHROOMS. 



rrom the transactions of the Royal Horticultural Society of Paris. 

 Report hy the President, Viscount Hericart de Thury, on the cul* 

 ture of Mushrooms. 



An important branch of our Horticulture is the cultivation of the 

 mushroom. Great increase in their production has taken place in a 

 few years. They were formerly cultivated in beds in the open air, 

 but the frequent changes of weather and temperature being unfavor- 

 able to their growth, some gardeners undertook to grow them in cel- 

 lars where the temperature was more uniform. They were complete- 

 ly successful. At the beginning of this century a gardene: by the 

 name of Chambry, having remarked that good mushrooms grew in 



