446 Transactions of the Prussian Gardening Society. 



and " Drupologist " he recommends to follow Quintinye, Du- 

 hamel, and Manger, as botanists follow Linnaeus. These two 

 papers, and the works of Manger, Diel, and Sickler, deserve 

 to be well considered by the Garden Committee of the Horti- 

 cultural Society, before they fix on the classification and 

 nomenclature of the hardy fruits. But it is superfluous to 

 make such a suggestion as this to Mr. Sabine, who is devoted 

 to the subject, and who will have every possible assistance. 

 However unfortunate the Society may have been as to the 

 plan of its Garden, we hardly think it possible that it could 

 have met with a Secretary so competent to describe its pro- 

 ductions, and so active and energetic in every thing respecting 

 its details. 



31. Extract from the Transactions of the Society at their Meeting 



on the 1st of June, 1823. 



The titles of some papers which were read are given, and 

 the names of the persons elected for the ensuing year ; as the 

 committees of culinary vegetables, of fruits, of flowers, of 

 forcing and of hot-house culture, and of pictorial (bildende) 

 gardening. 



32. Notice of a Palm, Chamce'rops humilis, in the Botanic Garden 



of Berlin. By Mr. Otto, Inspector of the Garden. 



This species of fan palm is a native of the South of Europe; 

 and the individual at Berlin, is supposed to have been brought 

 from Holland upwards of 171 years ago. After having been 

 many years in a tub, and exposed to the open air during 

 every summer, it was, about the end of the last century, planted 

 in the floor of a hot-house, by Mr. Otto, and has since ripened 

 fruit, from which plants have been raised, and which are still 

 in the garden. Its height is 18 feet, which may be considered 

 extraordinary, as, in its native situations in Spain and Portu- 

 gal, it forms a bush seldom higher than two feet. But the 

 most remarkable circumstance connected with this palm is, 

 that it was the subject of the experiment cited by Linnaeus, as 

 a proof of the sexual system of botany. In this experiment 

 the palm is said to be the Phce'nix dactylifera, but this mistake 

 was corrected by Peter Collinson, who travelled in Germany 

 during the seven years' war ; and when he was in Berlin, and 

 saw the palm, wrote the true name on a slip of paper, and 

 stuck it in the tree. 



33. On some Species of Cineraria. By Mr. P. C. Bouche, Com- 



mercial Gardener in Berlin. 



C. lanata, cruenta, and hybrida are described, and direc- 

 tions given for growing them in leaf mould with a little sand, 

 and increasing them by seeds or cuttings. 



