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will remain in full beauty; in which case, the attempt must be repeated. 

 This should always be done in fine serene weather, and care should be 

 taken to defend the impregnated flower from rain and mists. Plants raised 

 from seeds which have been crossed, always bear the form of the mother, 

 but take the colours of the male parent. Fewer seeds are produced 

 by art than by nature alone ; and the impregnated flowers are less visited 

 by bees than others. — Questions relative to one of the varieties of White 

 Poplar, by M. Viimorin. This variety the writer supposes to be what is 

 called the Maple-leaved Dutch white poplar, and the P. nivea of Wiild.; 

 but, without determining this, he declares that all he possesses or knows of 

 this variety are females, and begs to call the attention of botanists to the 

 circumstance. — On the Water Chestnut, Trapa natans; 4 and 1, and Hy- 

 drocharideae Juss. {Encyc. of Gard., § 6057.) It is noticed as a remarkable 

 fact, that, though this plant is found in abundance in the stagnant waters of 

 Brittany and the neighbouring countries, and its roots cried in the cities 

 of Nantes and Angers like common chestnuts, yet it has to be cultivated 

 in the stove in Britain. But the truth is, the plant is hardly known, and 

 has never yet had a fair trial, in this country. Being an annual, we have 

 little doubt it might be brought to perfection in the summer season, in a 

 pond or cistern covered by a glass frame, or probably without any covering. 

 It ripens its fruit perfectly in the long canal at Versailles, and the difference 

 between the summer temperature there and in London, is not, we believe, 

 above 4°. We wish M. Blaikie or M. Oscar le Clerc would send us over 

 a peck or two of the nuts ; we should then distribute them in such a way as to 

 give the plant a fair trial of being acclimated. — Divers Recipes and Experi- 

 ments. " My strawberry-borders were attacked by the cockchaffer grub; I 

 watered them with old lie ; this renovated the plants, and weakened the at- 

 tacks of the grubs. When my cherry trees were attacked by the mole-cricket 

 (Courtiliere Fr., Grilla talpa Lin.) I had them watered with water in which 

 some fish-offal of the town had been steeped: the trees recovered their vigour. 

 Peach trees which had been injured bj' a coup-de-soleil, so that the fruit fell 

 and the leaves faded, I restored by laying rotten dung over their roots." — 

 Notice of the Flower-Market of Paris, in January, 1828. A catalogue of the 

 florist's flowers and fruit trees which are exposed to sale in this seemingly well- 

 frequented market. " If," says the writer, " the alabasters, the porphyries, 

 and the bronzes, would give way a little to the productions of nature, then 

 might the laudable industry of gardeners receive a new impulse in providing 

 objects for the taste of the amateur ; and they might find a reward for their 

 labours, if, like Madame the Comtesse de Bruce, ladies would spend their 

 winter evenings amid ornamental trees, shrubs, and flowers." A list of 

 prices is given. — Summary of Work done in the Fruit, Kitchen, Flower, 

 and Pleasure or Landscape Gardens, during the first three months of the 

 year 1828; also Hot-beds and Frames, Forcing, &c. A clear detail of the 

 labours of the several departments of gardening. 



From the foregoing analysis, our readers will observe that the Annals of 

 the Paris Horticultural Society have hitherto afforded but very little in- 

 formation to the English gardener. It was not, indeed, to be expected that 

 they could do so; but they are not, on that account, the less valuable for 

 France, where they have already given an additional impulse to the taste 

 for gardening pursuits. This taste is as natural and universal there as it is 

 in this or in any other part of the world. Indeed, if we consider the dif- 

 ference between England and France and Germany, in regard to wealth, 

 we shall be compelled to conclude, that the greater degree of taste resides 

 in the latter countries. In the science of horticulture, as far as respects 

 vegetable physiology and chemistry, France is in advance of England; but 

 in France, this scientific knowledge is confined to a few heads in Paris. 

 As France increases in wealth, and education becomes extended, this 

 science will be applied in practice ; and an increasing demand for gar- 



