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JAnnaks De La Societe Imperiale D'Horticultnre De Paris- July, 1854. Translation of 

 H. Meigs ] 



HORTICULTURAL VISIT TO THE BARO^ ROTHSCHILD, 

 AT FERRIERES, BY M. JAMIN. 



Messrs. Maiifra, Durand and myself, on a recent excursion to 

 Ferrieres, had an opportunity to admire, on the superb property 

 of Monsieur le Baron de Rothschild, three great hot houses, or 

 conservatories of glass, grapes nearly ripe; they are forced, such 

 as the several Chasselas, Frankenthal, Boudales and others. 

 These conservatories are warmed by hot water in what are 

 termed Thermosiphons. (Meigs — This poor Greek word only 

 means hot pipes.) 



The oidmm soon showed itself on these vines, but at its first ap- 

 pearance the chief gardener of Baron Rothschild, Mr. Bergmann, 

 powdered the pipes with flour of sulphur, and the oidium soon 

 disappeared before the sulphurous exhalations; and yet no trace 

 of the sulphur remains upon the grapes. By the common me- 

 thods f f using sulphur, the grapes inevitably have a taste of it. 

 Mr. Bergmann has never failed in fine grapes those four years that 

 he has tried his plan. 



The evergreens of the Baron are transplantations in a dry sea- 

 son (some of them); all perfectly successful; and that with trees 

 thirty feet high. This shows great skill and care in his planta- 

 tions. 



A FLOWER. 



Linnseus, in the genial warmth of his love for flowers, called 

 it the nuptial bed, in which the mysterious fecundation operates. 



A flower is complete with a pistil and a stamen, for these are the 

 indispensable organs of fecundation, producing the seeds which 

 are destined to perpetuate the species. 



The most simple and complete flower is the Hippuris. (Note. — 

 Lindley's 277th order, Haloragaceae or Hippurids.) The Hip- 

 puris Palustris. 



The Honey cup, JVectariwn (nectar cup), is polymorphous (of 

 a great variety of shapes). 



Stamen is the male, usually of two parts, a filet or thread, and 

 an anther, which is the essential organ, for it contains the fine 



