46 Observations on depriving Flowers of their Anthers. 
from such mutilated flowers produce double flowers. Dr. Messer 
gave notice of it to the Horticultural Society of Berlin, (Prussia,) 
-but with the remark, that he was less fortunate in experiments made 
on flowers in his garden than on those which he had in pots, perhaps 
because they were less distant from other flowers. The Horticul- 
tural Society encouraged him to continue his experiments, which he 
performed with great success. At the same time Prof. Bauer, Prof. 
Schuebler, Mr. C. Orthman, (inspector of the College garden,) 
and myself, made experiments, in Tubingen, on the same subject; 
and the results are now concentrated as follows. We could not find 
much difference between flowers in pots and the same flowers in gar- 
dens. Seeds produced by prevented fructification, always showed | 
in one hundred plants sixty or seventy with double flowers, while 
one hundred plants, when in the same ground, in a natural way, pro- 
duce no more than twenty or thirty. . Even the seeds of the former 
produced: flowers larger.and more full, tlian in the natural way. In. 
some of the flowers, the number of the petals was multiplied from - 
fifty to fifty five, when in single flowers there were no more than 
arrived in New York, last year. Having little knowledge of the language, I at first 
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the learned and scientific. I came to outh ee after I had wandered through 
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nevolence, and they do every thing in their power to extend my views. I shall 
finish, h, in Cintas: my studies of medicine, being with Dr. J. Edwards Holbrowns 
Anatomy in 
lectures erictianis in that institution. I was indeed enepvieed and delighted, to find 
more spirit here for natural history, than in any part of the United States which I 
ve visited. About seventeen ladies and fifteen gentlemen attend my jocturess a 
Sea number in the summer season. 
ve in view an expedition to Florida next March, the time at which the lectures 
ter ialiais. I shall visit first the Fiorida Reefs, (perhaps accompanied by Mr. Audu- 
and penetrate from thence into the heart of the territo ory, ‘to explore its ree eat 
teaures, ee to lift the veil which-now covers that “the United Sta 
y there until the sickly season begins, and then return to Charleston, 
if God steel my undertaking, to distribute the collections among the subscribers. 
The subscription i is only $10 for each member, and the money is returned in =—_ 
, plants, insects, reptiles, and some stuffed birds, and seeds. I hope to pro- 
cure. ‘about thirty subscribers in this city. If I succeed next year in my expedition 
to » and finish my studies in medicine, I shall very probably undertake an 
aipedidian ona larger sca scale, to the western states. I hope the gentlemen at the 
North will not overlook such a an occasion to enlarge their museums and herbarium, 
I now take the liberty, Sir, to offer a few observations only, for the pages of your 
Journal. - Very respectfully yours, E. 
