346 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Mons. Fontainer, of the Shanghai Consulate, presents a very large tulier 

 of the Su-tchuen— a sort of Truffle. 



Mons. Jacqueminot exhibits Ignamer, (Chinese yams) already shortened 

 considerably in culture. 



Pisciculture ably done at the Buisse, on the Ireve, by Pierre Tartar, un- 

 der Count de Galbert. 



The red and gray partridges, pheasants and moor-hens, of California, 

 are successfully raised at Mulhouse, by Mons. Haffely. 



[Journal de la Societe Imperiale et Centrale D'Horticulture. Paris, December, 1859. 



Napoleon 3dj Protecteur.] 



The President, Mons. Payen, remarked that it is certain that frauds are 

 sometimes committed in Egypt upon strangers, and in the seaports, where 

 every day wheat is sold as mwniviy toheat. The varieties of v/heat are 

 grown from them. As to the grain actually found in the mummy cases, we 

 have never known it to germinate, and its great antiquity and the effect of 

 the bituminous material about it destroys all germinating power. But we 

 must take care not to confound such grain with that which, by accident, may 

 have been buried so deep as to be out of the reach of oxygen, without the 

 presence of which the grain cannot germinate. 



DISEASED CELERY. 



Last year a disastrous malady raged among our celery. This year it is 

 extending, and immense losses are known, particularly near Liancourt, on 

 the meadow lands very suitable to the celery. It is difficult for me to de- 

 scribe the disease ; but first, black spots come on the leaves, increase rapid- 

 ly, and in eight days the whole plant becomes scorched so as to break all to 

 pieces on the least touch. In appearance, it is similar to the potato dis- 

 ease when that is at the worst. It has appeared near Paris, and engages 

 much attention. 



The 7-ose colored Malaga potato, three sorts, is approved much better 

 than our yellow one. 



The Swiss onion is an excellent variety ; much grown at Roannes. 



DIOSCOREA BATATA, OR IGNAME. 



South America has this precious plant. There are many species of it in 

 Venezuela. It is indigineous in America, as well as in Africa and China ; 

 is found wild in the virgin forests of America. The Spanish name is 

 Name. Three sorts are cultivated : the Name de St. Domingo, the Name 

 liso, and the Name de espina. The St. Domingo, like the rest, is a vine ; 

 has small bulbs on the foot stalk of the leaf and the root bulb. They let 

 the vine grow on trellis. 



The Name liso — its tuber is longer ; opal white ; fleshy ; milky juice ; 

 yellowish brown skin ; roots run down deep. The Name de esfina, the 

 thorny one ; the little, rootlets, are thorny ; the flesh fat, marrowy, succu- 

 lent J its vine grows several yards high. Some of the Venezuelan ignames 

 grow roots weighing over 200 pounds ; they are very nutricious, and easy 

 of digestion. It is the Yam ! 



