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watered, and it will give fruit in proportion to the heat, the manure and 

 the watering you give it. It much resembles in its growth and culti- 

 vation the Tomato. The fruit for table should be picked before it is 

 quite ripe. Plants for seed should be left, and seeds taken only from 

 the finest largest fmits. The seed degenerates soon, and ought to be 

 renewed from the south of France. 



A few years ago there was introduced here from Cliina, a variety 

 of it bearing white fruit, smaller than the violet colored, but preferable 

 for the delicacy of its taste and flesh. 



Annales De La Soeiete Centrale D'HorticuUure De Fiance. 

 De Candolle. — Author of Flore Francaise — 5 volumes Octavo^ 3d 

 Edition in 1805. Of Vegetable Physiology in 3 volumes Octavo^ in 

 1832. — Pyramus de Candolle was born in Geneva, came to France 

 while young, soon made himself remarkable as an able Botanist. He 

 was aided in his studies by the deserved friendship of Baron Delessert. 

 After many important publications on the subject of vegetables, and 

 after having filled for many years the place of Professor of Botany at 

 Montpellier, he returned to Geneva, where he remained a Professor of 

 Botany, until his death in December, 1841. 



INIons. Pyramus de Candolle held for many years, the sceptre of 

 descriptive and historical botany. From Geneva, he dictated laws 

 which were received as so many oracles, by the majority of European 

 Botanists. According to the doctrine of de Candolle, Botany had 

 hitherto remained a useless science to the human race. Those learned 

 men who had cultivated that science, had occupied themselves only 

 with those differences which exist between plants, in augmenting the 

 number of their genera and species, and not at all with their applica- 

 tion to the wants of men. Their science was absolutely sterile, unless 

 to Society, and common sense was astonished always at beholding so 

 many grave and learned Botanists, who never considered at all the 

 advantages which plants offered to human support, to the arts, to in- 

 dustry or to commerce. Mons. de Candolle deserved well of all 

 sensible men by his division of the Science of Vegetable into organic 

 Botany, descriptive, and applied to some use ! 



