88 Foreign Notices. — Poland and Russia. 



said not to be fit for any other produce. At the close of the vintage a 

 fete, and a cask of wine to drink, were given to the labourers employed. 



New Botanical Works... Two new botanical works are announced for 

 speedy publication at Brussels. 1st," Sertum Botanicum," to comprise 600 

 plates, coloured with the greatest care, of plants the most remarkable for 

 their elegance, their splendour (eclat), or their utility ; and 2d, " Annates 

 de la Societe Royale d? Horticulture des Pays Bas;" which will contain, 

 first, new plants discovered by travelling naturalists, and, secondly, plants 

 previously incorrectly or imperfectly figured, accompanied with an explan- 

 atory text, and notices regarding the culture of interesting species. Both 

 works will be edited by a Society of Botanists, and published under the 

 superintendence of M. P. C. Van Geel, Member of the Council of Adminis- 

 tration of the Royal Society of Horticulture of the Netherlands. These 

 works will be published monthly, in livraisons of six plates each, and three 

 or four leaves of text ; the whole in small folio, on hot-pressed vellum 

 paper. The price of the Sertum will be 2| florins (4s. 4d.) each livraison ; 

 of the Annates 3 florins (5s. 3d.) the livraison. (Journal de la Belgique.) 



The Horticidtural Society of Ghent held their winter show of plants on 

 the 31st of January last. The medal of honour for the finest collection of 

 plants in flower was adjudged to M. Josse Verleeuwen, nurseryman and 

 florist at Ghent. A list of 15 plants which obtained this honour gives a 

 favourable idea of the state of exotic culture in the Netherlands : they 

 were Strelitzia regina, Acacia laurifolia, and pubescens, Paeonia moutan, 

 rosea, odorata, and suffruticosa, Cypripedium venustum, Azalea indica, 

 fl. purpureo, Camellia japonica, fl. variegato, Zamia integrifolia, Epacris 

 attenuata 2 plants, E. rosea 2 plants, Ex purpurascens and pungens. The 

 prize de la belle culture was adjudged to Strelitzia rutilans, from the col- 

 lection of M. A. Van der Woestyne, of Wandelghem, near Ghent ; and la 

 mention honorable was adjudged to a number of cultivators and amateurs. 

 The same Society have offered their silver medal for the finest collection of 

 the genus citrus, to be exhibited at their summer show of 1829. At the ex- 

 hibition of this Society, last June, the prize was adjudged to Astrapea 

 Wallichii, to M. Verleeuwen as before. Among the plants, the best grown 

 were Cordia speciosa, Nerium coronarium, Cerbera manghas, Ixora coc- 

 cinea, &c. (Ibid.) 



The Society of Domestic Economy at Utrecht, at their June show of 

 plants, " crowned" Zamia horrida, from the garden of M. Beelschaijder, of 

 Rupelmonde, and Iris nepalensis, from that of M. Van der Hoop. Among 

 the best grown plants were Protea pinifolia, Gardenia florida, and Hakea 

 amplexicaulis. (Bull. Un.) 



POLAND AND RUSSIA. 



Culture of the Vine, in the Southern district of Russia. This is making consi- 

 derable progress. In Moldavia, and on the left bank of the Pruth, a white 

 grape, containing a great deal of carbonic acid, is successfully cultivated. In 

 the Crimea, especially at Soudak, grapes are grown with very large berries> 

 often not less than plums ; but they do not yield well in the press. . The 

 vines of Spain and Languedoc are successfully cultivated by a Frenchman, 

 at Larci, near Balaklava. A white wine is produced on the banks 

 of the Molotschna, which falls into the Don ; which wines are very 

 well known in Moscow and Petersburgh under the name of Don wines. 

 There is a vineyard near Astracan, which produces very good wine, the 

 greater part of which is sent to the imperial court of Petersburgh : what is 

 sold produces a higher price than the wines of France. The north side 

 of Caucasus produces a wine of middling quality, and in sufficient quantity 



