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(p. 123.) — Cuttings of this plant may be struck with tolerable success 

 during the whole year ; but the most favourable season is in March and 

 April, when they will strike root, and be fit to pot off in three weeks 

 after they are put in. When plants are turned out into the borders, they 

 set during summer an abundance of seeds, and in favourable seasons ripen 

 a part of them. To produce seeds in the house, the plants should be 

 placed in an airy situation, and the impregnation of the pointals effected 

 by the help of art. It is rather singular that this beautiful climber is so 

 scarce, considering how easily it is propagated, and how frequently it 

 ripens abundance of seeds. The Maurandya Barclaydna, another beauti- 

 ful climber, will probably prove hardy enough to endure our winters out 

 of doors, in sheltered gardens near the sea coast, as a plant survived last 

 winter in a garden near Falmouth. — A. X. 



Retarding the Flowering of the Lilac. — In Vol. VI. p. 229. the lilac is 

 mentioned as to be met with in full perfection in Paris, in the months 

 of August and September. Your correspondent I. H. asks whether we 

 have not the same means of retarding its flowering, or whether it may 

 not be a different variety which they cultivate at Paris. As I presume 

 that some of 3'our numerous correspondents will be abler than I am 

 to give a more satisfactory account, I shall only observe, in the mean 

 time, that, according to your Hortus Britdnnicus, all the species of Syringa 

 flower in May or June ; and that, if any variety existed at Paris so different 

 as to flower in August and September, it is more than probable the 

 British nurserymen would have obtained it before this time. We may 

 therefore conckide that the lateness of flowering must be owing to 

 some artificial means. I am of opinion that in some seasons we possess 

 those means in an intense degree; and this, I presume, from having 

 been informed, several years ago, that at Paris they retard the Persian 

 lilacs by placing them in an ice-house. I am not acquainted with the 

 time and manner of depositing them ; but, on account of the fragrance 

 and beauty of these shrubs when in flower, some who have an opportunitjr 

 may find the experiment worth trying, especially in the neighbourhood 

 of London. Similar treatment may probably be advantageously extended 

 to some other things. Hoping to be favoured with more particular in- 

 formation on this subject through your Magazine, I remain. Sir, &c. — 

 M. N. Nov. 1830. 



Lost or missing hardy Bidboits Plants. — Su", Since you published, in your 

 Number for July last (Vol. VI. p. 368.), my account of the lost or miss- 

 ing hardy bulbous plants which were so successfully cultivated in the 

 English gardens two hundred years ago, I have ascertained that the 

 JVarcissus autumnalis minor, there mentioned, is theAmarjlll? liitea o£Linn. 

 Sp. PL ed. 2. p. 420. ; and is actually the same as the specimen so named 

 and yet preserved in his herbarium ; and that the iV^arcissm autumnalis 

 major of my said list is Amaryllis lutea of Curtis, in Bat. Mag. tab. 290.. 

 Both these plants I now possess alive. They belong to the modern genus 

 Oporanthus, and the latter should retain its ancient specific name of 

 major. I am also assured that the pure yellow fritillary of the aforesaid 

 list yet exists in the botanic garden at Liverpool. Further than the 

 above, the missing plants remain in the same obscurity as before* — ■ 

 A. H. Haworth. Chelsea, March 7. 1831. 



Double Cowslip. — In your Magazine for February (Vol. VII. p. 123.), 

 I observe a reply by Mr. Errington of Oulton Park, relative to the double 

 cowslip ; about which I made enquiries in a former Number of your 

 Magazine. (Vol. IV. p. 446.) Mr. Errington says that he has obtained 

 the plant from a cottage garden, as double as a rose. I now beg to 

 inform him that, soon after my query appeared in the Magazine, I was 

 favoured with a plant of the double cowslip (the true " double paigles " of 

 Parkinson and Gerarde), by the kindness of Mr. Spurgin of Saffron Walden, 



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