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PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Foreign Notices. 



FRANCE. 



Remarkable Variety of Apple Tree. In the annals of the Linnaean 

 Society of Paris for May 1824, M. Tillette de Clermont-Tonnere has de- 

 scribed a remarkable apple-tree as growing at St. Valery in Normandy. 

 This apple-tree, which they believe to be between thirty and forty years' 

 growth, has constantly produced flowers of one sex, and consequently 

 barren ; the flower is composed of an external and internal calyx, with 

 neither stamens nor corolla. The female organs consist of fourteen 

 styles, with oblique stigmas. At the period of flowering it is customary 

 for every young woman of St. Valery to go and make her apple, (d'aller 

 faire sa pomme) by fixing a nosegay of the blossoms of any common 

 apple-tree on a tuft of those of the one described ; this is attached by 

 a piece of ribband in such a manner that in autumn every one knows 

 the fruit that her nosegay has been the cause of producing. It is re- 

 marked that these fruits differ among themselves in flavour, colour, and 

 size, and that they bear some relation to those of the different her- 

 maphrodite trees, the blossoms of which have been used in their fecun- 

 dation. Grafts from this tree remain always barren, notwithstanding 

 attempts to fecundate the blossoms artificially. Seeds sown have come 

 up very well, but the plants are still too young to produce blossoms. 



Multiplying Roses by Cuttings. Towards the 34 



end of July, M. Gossart rings young shoots of 

 the same year, covering the space where the 

 bark was taken off by a little woo,. In a short 

 time a thickened ring (une bourrelet) appears 

 round both edges of the ring : in November he 

 cuts off" the shoot close under the upper ring, 

 plants in light soil, keeps rather moist and shaded, 

 and the cutting shoots freely the following spring. 

 Another mode is, fifteen days after ringing the 

 shoot, to lay it in the soil, or draw it through a pot 

 of earth or tin case (cornet) {Jig. 54.) in the Chi- 

 nese manner, and it will root and grow the same ' 

 season. A third mode is adopted, after the se- 

 cond sap, commonly called that of St. John, by 

 slipping off young shoots of that second sap be- 

 fore they are longer than the little finger; plant 

 them as cuttings in peat earth, cover them with 

 a bell-glass, and shade them, and six out of nine 

 will take root. 



Garden of Fromo?it. This establishment is 

 situated at Ris, in the department of Seine et 

 Oise, a few miles from Paris. It was founded 

 by M. Soulange Bodin, the proprietor, member 

 of several societies, and author of Recit d'une 

 Excursion Horticulturale, faite a Londres dans le 

 mois d'Avril, 1824. It is said to contain a good general collection which 



