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which I did not like to use buds aud grafts, until I had 

 proved the fruit. This 1 have accomplished. One small 

 branch, covered by a bag, measuring six and a half by nine 

 inches, contained twenty-one beautiful plums, hanging in 

 one solid cluster, causing the little limb to bend so much 

 beneath its weight, as to require a prop to support it. Upon 

 another tree, (the Moorpuck Apricot,) I saved eight Apricots, 

 under a very small bag. I am training some apricots and 

 other trees in the form of a fan, to make them the more con- 

 venient to be covered with the muslin." 



We shall try this mode ourselves the coming season. 



Art. V. Heliotrope Souvenir de Liege, and Descriptions of 

 Six new Cinerarias. By John Cadness, Commercial Gar- 

 dens, Flushing, L. I. 



Heliotrope Souvenir de Liege. — This new plant has 

 now flowered in the Collection of Parsons & Co., Flushing, 

 N. Y., by whom it was imported the past summer, along 

 with two other new varieties, Grissau and Triomphe de 

 Liege : these last have not yet flowered. 



Souvenir de Liege was sent us as a yellow flowered variety ; 

 it is a plant of stronger habit, and more erect growth than the 

 well known Var. intermedia, is more disposed to branch from 

 the main stem, each branch being terminated by a truss of 

 bloom ; leaves larger, deeply veined, and of a yellowish green 

 color ; the truss is not much larger, but broader and better 

 formed, stands well up, not so triangular, and the angles very 

 little reflexed, which gives the flower a better appearance ; 

 the flower is much larger, the tube of the corrolla mora open 

 and campanulate. The centre of the flower is bright yellow, 

 shaded with very pale purple, which, however, changes 

 nearly to white ; it also promises fail- to be a free bloomer ; it 

 cannot, perhaps, properly, be called yellow, although yellow 

 is the ground color, and it is very distinct and bright, and in 

 this respect, we cannot say, that it has come up to our ex- 



