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10. On the Treatment of the 'iiiympha'^a rubra. By Mr. Christie 

 DufF, C.M.H.S., and Gardener to the Earl Grosvenor, at Eaton 

 Hall. Read December 18. 1827. 



The plants never flowered in the stone cisterns in which 

 they had been kept, owing, as Mr. Duff thought, to their being 

 too far from the glass, and for want of sufficient heat. The 

 tubers were therefore taken up, and put into small pots, accord- 

 ing to their size, plunged nearly to their rims in water, and 

 kept in the stove till their leaves began to rise in the months 

 of April and May. They were then shifted into cisterns and 

 large glazed pots, in soil composed of strong clay at the bot- 

 tom, then light loam, covered with sand. The cisterns and 

 pots were placed on the end flues, and raised near the glass ; 

 and some of the latter were plunged in the corners of melon 

 frames. By giving a due supply of water and heat, they grew 

 rapidly, throwing out runners which were from time to time 

 pinched off. The N. rubra flowered in August ; the N. cseru- 

 leaand odorata, under similar treatment, produced abundance 

 of flowers, and the Nelumbium speciosum flowered also, and 

 ripened its seeds. 



(TV be continued.) 



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 Account of those considered the most i?iteresting. 



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Curtis's Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden displayed; New Series. 

 Edited by Dr. Hooker. In 8vo Numbers, monthly. 3s. 6d. col. ; 5s. plain. 



No. XIX. for July, contains 

 2855 to 2840. — Artocarpus integrifolia, Entire-leaved Bread-fruit, or 

 Jack, tree ; 20 and 1, and Urticeee. ( J?g. 102.) This tree grows to the height 

 of 30 ft., with a trunk of from 8 to 12 ft. 

 in diameter. It is a native of the East In- 

 dies, and cultivated both there and in the 

 West India Islands. Male and female 

 flowers are produced on the same branch- 

 let, the male (a) mostly laterally, and the 

 female (6) terminally. The fruit (c) is a 

 muricated pericarp, it varies considerably 

 in shape, and the fleshy part is eaten by 

 the natives, and by strangers, after they 

 have become accustomed to its very strong 

 and offensive smell. " When rotting under 

 the tree, the odour of the fruit is highly 

 disgusting : in this state affording support 

 to hundreds of Curculionidese Staphylini- 

 dese, ForficulEc, &c. (Guilding MSS.) The 

 Vol. IV. — No. 16, b b 



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