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the people's food. We take a great interest in the character of the 

 tree out of which the timber used in the edifices of Nineveh was 

 made. 



[Annales de la Scciete Imperiale d'Horticulture, Paris, 1854.] 



Minutes of the sitting on 15th of December last : 



Mr. Flantin placed upon the table three bunches of magnificent 

 Chasselon grapes, of very high color, raised by him in his garden. 



Questioned — Did you prt serve from the Oidium by using sul- 

 phur ? Yes, when he had perceived that they were attacked, and 

 he had observed the disease this morning. He had preserved these 

 grapes by stretching a cloth over them. 



[Revue Rorticole, Paris, February, 1854 ] 



AZALEAS. 



Under this name are confounded four different types. 



1. Azalea proeunibens — a small Alpine plant, which de Can- 

 dolle has called by the generic name Loiseleuria. 



2. A sort of rhododendron — a sub genus to w^hich we apply the 

 name of azalea — a shrub. 



3. The so-called azalea of India— a mere sub-genus of the rlio- 

 dodendron. We propose to give it the name of tsutsia, by con- 

 tracting the Indian name, tsu tsutsi, taken by Kempfer and de Can- 

 dolle and Don from the Japanese name. 



4. The azalea ovata and myrtifolia — a third sub-genus of the 

 rhododendron. 



In the rich multiplicity of forms presented by great collections 

 of the azaleas, it is at first difficult to seize the well marked spe- 

 cific types; it requires much study and reflection to know them 

 well — to find out whether they are natural, or much modified 

 by ages of culture in Chinese and Japanese gardens, from whence 

 ours are dt-rived. We know th.tt the same kind of azalea brought 

 from Japan, nearly one hundred years ago, are identically the 

 same as those recently introduced ; and further, they are exactly 

 the same as those we find in the herbariums of R. Breynius, 

 Kempfer and Thurnberg, All the species (except one from Java) 



