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upper lateral shoots, about three inches long, and not so thick 

 as a goose-quill. I cut it off just below a leaf, removed that 

 leaf, and planted the cutting an inch deep, in a very light 

 sandy compost, similar to bog earth; plunged the pot (a 60) 

 in a hot-bed of leaves, and covered the cutting with a glass. 

 The earth was slightly watered, and subsequently kept in a 

 moist state. This was done on the 28th of August ; by the 

 12th of September the cutting had formed roots, and was 

 growing ; the glass was removed, and flower-buds soon after 

 became apparent." By the 12th of October the plant had 

 become eleven inches high, and had expanded two flowers, 

 and more were ready to follow. By this time, also, five other 

 cuttings of a balsam, taken off" in the middle of September, 

 had struck, were growing freely, and had each protruded 

 blossoms. All this time the original seedling plants had 

 " evinced no sign of producing blossom." Mr. Towers's 

 object was to obtain plants for preserving alive through the 

 winter, that he might not lose the kind, of which, as the bal- 

 sam is annual, and as his seedling plants neither flowered nor 

 seeded, there was every prospect. To promote this perpetu- 

 ation, Mr. Towers deemed it advisable to pinch off all the 

 flower-buds from the plants formed from the second set of 

 cuttings. 



{To be continued.) 



Art. II. Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society. Vol. V. 

 Part I. 8vo. Edinburgh, Maclachlan and Stewart. 



{Continued from Vol. VIII. p. 442.) 



2. Notes respecting Trees, Shrubs, economical Plants, and other 

 Objects of Horticidture, as they occurred at different Places on 

 the Rhine, and in France, in the Years 1824, 1825, and 1826. 

 By W. A. Cadell, Esq. F.R.S. Read March 4. 1830. 



The tubers of the iathyrus, tuberosus, boiled, are sold in 

 the streets of Nimeguen in the month of August. At Heidel- 

 berg almonds are grown for sale on standard trees. At 

 Schwetzingen the mistletoe is common on the poplar; at 

 Carlsruhe, on the Scotch pine, and at Strasburg on lime trees. 

 In Britain the mistletoe does not occur naturally farther 

 north than about 54;^° ; but it is met with in some gardens 

 near Edinburgh, in lat. 56°. " It is stated by authors that 

 the Lombardy poplar was introduced at Pavia from Asia, 

 about the year 1590, and only the male plant (see Vol VI. 



