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laya, especially the Rhododendrons Edgeworthii — a dwarf shrub 

 crowned with white flowers, larger and more lovely than our 

 largest lilies— and whi{5h promise to the hybridizers a vast field 

 for experiments, and probably successful ones. Among the 

 flowers we noticed fine Salvia Splendens, and Diervilla roses. 



[Revue Horticole, PariSj June, 1854.] 



Mr. Godron, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Besancons, has 

 carefully examined the theory of Mr. Fabre as to the transforma- 

 tion of ^gilops Ovata into wheat. It is a hybrid between com- 

 mon wheat and it; so that We must now reunite it to the genus 

 Triticum — that is really true wheat after all. We are about to 

 experiment the artificial fecundation of the ^gilops with wheat. 



According to Mr. Godron, who has industriously sought for 

 specimens of this J^gilops, and discovered that it is j)eculiarly 

 fond of the immediate vicinity of wheat fields . 



COTTON SEED OIL. 



Capt. Wm. De Peyster laid upon the table specimens of soap 

 and oil from cotton seed, manufactured by a new patent process 

 at New Orleans. Oil from cotton seed is not new, though we 

 believe nearly all the attempts to extract it in this country have 

 proved unsuccessful. The seed of cotton is more than twice the 

 weight of the lint ; it is about the size and somewhat like sun- 

 flower seed, and equally rich in oil. It is either wasted or used 

 for manure on the plantations, except an iticonsiderable quantity 

 fed to cattle. It is poor food, except when cooked with other 

 stuff for hogs. The last Journal of Jlgriculture of the Highland 

 Society, Scotland, publishes a long report upon feeding cattle 

 with cotton seed and cotton seed oil cake, which proved the lat- 

 ter, fed with turnips equally valuable as linseed oil or bean meal. 

 One of the faults of beef made from oil cake is, that it has a taste 

 like tallow candles. Cattle are more fond of cotton seed oil cake 

 than that of flax seed, and it is decidedly better food than raw 

 cotton seed, for they are not good. The cooking and extraction 

 of the oil leaves the residue better than the whole seed, which 

 are too oily, for the digestive organs of the stomach of the ox. 



