Answers to Queries, and Queries. 37? 



As^the yellow rose is very shy in throwing out suckers, and is rather a 

 scarce plant, it would be well to try and increase it. The chamomile 

 plan is worthy attention. — Z. Nov. 5. 1827. 



Bursting the Double Yellow Rose, in reply to R. N. (p. 119.) — I am in- 

 clined to think that aspect or soil has more effect in blooming a yellow rose 

 than any thing else. I have never been able to grow this beautiful shrub 

 myself, on account of an almost constant smoke in my garden ; but I heard 

 an experienced man once remark, that in a friend's garden, where a yellow 

 rose did not bloom, he recommended it to be removed from a south to a 

 north aspect, when it throve and bloomed well. I'have seen one that 

 bloomed very perfectly and freely on a east or north-east wall ; and I have 

 been told that in some villages east of Newmarket, on a very dry chalky 

 soil, perfect flowers are produced in great abundance. — Suffolciensis . 

 December 1. 



Transportation of living Orchidece. — Sir, At page 70. of your last Num- 

 ber you enquire respecting the transportation of living Orchidege. So 

 far back as the year 1816, I brought with me, on my return from Sicily, 

 between two and three hundred roots of species indigenous to that island • 

 nearly the whole of which flowered the succeeding year in the green-house 

 of the Liverpool botanic garden, and in those of several of my friends. 

 Many of these roots were sent to the Chelsea garden ; but whether they 



succeeded or not, I never heard. The method I adopted was as follows : 



The plants were taken up in full flower, at which period the tuber or bulb 

 for the following year had not begun to throw out its roots : the earth was 

 carefully removed from the tubers, and the plant laid in a shady, cool, dry 

 room for about three weeks, when they were lightly packed with hay in a 

 perforated deal box. The species thus introduced were as follows : — 



O'rchis undulatifolia Bivona* *Serapias lingua. 



O'rchis pyramidalis ? Auct. (Serapias cordigera. 



O'rchis bipunctata Bivona. O'phrys lutea. Willd. 



Orchis variegata. O v phrys speculum. Bivona. 



O'rchis longicornis Desf. Fl. Atl. (Xphrys tenthredinifera. Bivona. 



O'rchis purpurea Biv. sp. Nov. ined. O v phrys ciliata. Bivona. 



O'rchis longibracteata Bivona. O v phrys pallida. Rafinesque. 



The whole of these flowered the first or second year, together with three 

 or four other species, apparently new, and of which I possess drawings. 

 Several of these identical plants have been figured in the Botanical Register, 

 but under names and synonyms very different from those assigned to them 

 by their first describer, my accurate friend, the Baron Bivona, whose great 

 knowledge of Sicilian Orchideas I have had frequent occasions to admire. 



Having thus replied to your enquiry, allow me to request you will give 

 circulation to one from myself. What is the native country of the 

 hdthyrus grandiflorus of the Botanical Register, and by whom was that 

 beautiful plant introduced ? My reason for making this enquiry is as 

 follows : — During a botanical tour in Sicily, about the year 1810 or 1812, 

 my attention was arrested by seeing, for the first time, this imposing 

 species in full flower, spreading over a thicket on the side of Mount 

 Scuderi, the present name of the highest ridge of the Nebrodes or Moun- 

 tains of Neptune ; a limestone chain, which runs from Taorminum to 

 Messina. On this single spot it grew luxuriantly : but the extraordinary 

 thing is, that although I remained eight years in Sicily, during which time 

 I explored nearly every part of the island, I never saw this plant in any 

 other situation. The last year of my residence, I made an autumnal 



* Sicularum Plantarum Centuria, 1, 2., Panormi, 1806-8, small thin 4to, 

 may be had of Mr. Bohn. The outline figures are excellent. 



