Annales de la Societe de Horticidture de Paris. 265 



Liv. VI. for February, contains 



1. Mdmoires, Rapports. — Continuation of Description of Bog earth 

 Plants, by M. le Chevalier Soulange-Bodin. — History of the genus Mag- 

 nolia, to which is added a short account of American plants, and those 

 from other countries, which are cultivated in peat earth, and which bear 

 the open air. — On the method of treating the layers or cuttings of the 

 J'bies lanceolata Per. (Cunninghamia lanceolata R. Br., Vol. II. p. 410.), 

 and A. columbaria Dum. Courc. {Araucaria imbricata Pav., Vol. II. p. 410.), 

 so as to obtain trees of the same growth and character as if raised from 

 seeds, by M. Poiteau. After noticing the diiFerence of character between 

 the upright and lateral shoots of these trees, and that the latter, whether 

 as grafts or layers, never depart from their first tendency towards a horizon- 

 tal direction, M. Poiteau proceeds to say that, by a little violence, the trees 

 may be made to produce what fruit-growers call goii?-mands (glutton-shoots'). 

 From these shoots, which will rise from the bottom of the stem on the head 

 of the tree being forcibly bent down, grafts, layers, or cuttings may be 

 taken, which will form handsome plants. M. Poiteau adds, that the diffi- 

 culty of obtaining seeds, and the known circumstance that such trees occa- 

 sionally produced adventitious shoots, first suggested to Messrs. Cels and 

 Noisette, and afterwards to M. Soulange-Bodin, the practicability of pro- 

 pagating them by cuttings. — Report from the Committee of Fruit Trees, 

 on three pears examined by M. Du Petit-Thouars. In this paper, a great 

 deal is said about the difficulty of identifying fruits by nurserymen's lists, 

 and the admitted eiToneousness of all fruit-catalogues; expressing properly 

 what every one feels on the subject. It alludes to almost all that has been 

 said and written lately on fruit trees, as well in France as in other countries, 

 and contains much useful information. 



2. Notices, Analyses, Sfc. — On the increase, cultivation, and advantages 

 of the Egyptian or bulb-bearing Onion, by M. Vilmorin. This species, 

 though not equal in quahty to the common onion, is preferable for its 

 earliness, abundant return, and the ease and certainty of its cultivation. It 

 is annually propagated, by planting the bulbs produced on the stems of such 

 as are left to run up for the purpose. — Le Bon Jardinier for 1828. This 

 periodical appeared first in 1755, published by M. AUetz, of Montpelier, in 

 the shape of a small tract, corresponding to the state of the business and 

 the abilities of its practitioners in those days. It was continued by M. de 

 Grace, enlarged by M. Mordaunt of Launay, carried on and augmented by 

 Messrs. Feburier, Noisette, Vilmorin, Loiseleur, Deslongchamps, Pirolle, 

 Boitard, &c., up to the edition published by M. Audot, which has been 

 carefully digested by Messrs. Poiteau and Vilmorin. It has been disseminated 

 over the whole field of horticulture, and is in every practical gardener's 

 hand, as well in Germany as in France. It is dedicated to Her Royal 

 Highness the Duchess of Berri, who patronises all works of public utility. — 

 On the Winter Precautions particularly necessary in the Management of 

 Hot-houses for Propagation, by M. le Chevalier Soulange-Bodin. These 

 directions are only intended for novices in the art : giving air, light, and 

 sufficient covering; keeping free from decayed leaves and moisture, by fre- 

 quently wiping the bell-glasses, &c. ; also plunging the pots in dry sawdust, 

 which, he says, acts hygrometrically, in qualifying the humid state of the 

 air. On grafting and striking cuttings he gives very rational directions. 



3. Melanges et Nouvelles. — Instructions for fecundating the Seeds of 

 Pinks with each other, by M. Fries-Morel. Many beautiful varieties of 

 pinks have been obtained by artificial impregnation. The process is as 

 follows : Just before sunrise, open carefully the flower to be operated on, 

 and abstract the anthers with small pincers. About eight or nine o'clock, 

 place the ripe pollen upon the stigma of the flower, and repeat this two or 

 three times in the course of the same day. If the act of impregnation has 

 tak^n place, the flower will fade in 24 or 36 hours; but if not, the flower 



