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them, by her employer; but this lady, and all other artists, should endeavour 

 to correct the taste of their employers, in matters connected with their profes- 

 sion. We wish our able correspondent, Calycanthus (who we have no doubt 

 is an artist), would take up this subject, and would enlarge on it from time to 

 time. — Cond. 



Cultivated Kinds of Rose budded in Hedgerows upon wild Kinds there growing. 

 — I, last summer, budded the wild roses growing in my hedgerows with buds of 

 some cultivated kinds ; the flowers from these are now coming into blossom ; 

 their hues and odours must increase the interest of the hedgerows. A men- 

 tion of this matter may induce others to increase the interest of their hedge- 

 rows in like manner. — M. Said. June 7. 1834. 



A Plant of Heracleam giganteum, grown in Lavender Hill Nursery in 1832, 

 measured as follows : — Extent of the two lower leaves from point to point, 

 12 ft. ; height of the plant, 10 ft. 3 in. ; circumference of the stem at 2 ft. from 

 the ground, 1 ft. ; diameter of the main umbel, 2 ft. ; diameter of a partial 

 umbel of ditto, 3 in. These dimensions were taken by — William Hurst. 

 Wandsivorth Road, July 10. 1832. 



A Verbascum in the garden of Mr. Wilson of Greenhithe (see p. 283.), 

 and nursed by Miss Wilson, had attained, July 27., a height of upwards of 

 12 ft., and was still growing. 



The Number of Plants observed in Blossom last Winter at Holnicote, in Somer- 

 setshire, the seat of Sir Thomas Acland, were on Dec. 23. 1833, 236; and 

 on Feb. 3. 1834, 181, as appears from the lists of them sent by him to the 

 Devon and Exeter Horticultural Society. — W. C. Trevelyan. Athenceum, 

 Pall Mall, July 9. 1834. 



JSignonia ophthdlmica. — Having received a supply of seed of the Bignqnia 

 ophthalmica, or eye vine, known to the Hispano-American inhabitants of 

 Carthagena by the name of Bejuco de Ojo, which is so justly celebrated for 

 its efficacy in the cure of ophthalmia and other inflammatory affections of 

 the eyes, I send some to you for distribution among those who are most 

 likely to succeed in making it vegetate. This will, perhaps, be facilitated by 

 previous maceration either in plain soft water kept at a moderate temperature 

 for about forty-eight hours, or in water acidulated with either chlorine, or a 

 saturated solution of oxalic acid, in the proportion of sixteen drops to the 

 pint, or one drop to the ounce by measure, of water. In this proportion, I 

 have found the oxalic acid, as recommended by M. Otto of Berlin, effectual 

 in rousing the dormant powers of vegetation, and quickening the develope- 

 ment of the infant plant. But when oxalic acid has been used, I think it will 

 be advisable, in general, to wash the seed, before planting, in water either pure, 

 or containing a small quantity of lime, potass, or some other substance 

 capable of forming a neutral salt with any adhering acid, so as to prevent any 

 injurious action it might exert upon the embryo springing into life. It will also 

 be necessary to guard against the depredations of slugs and other vermin, 

 which devour the young and tender plants of the eye vine with avidity. — 

 Wm. Hamilton. Plymoidh, May 20. 1834. 



[We have sent the whole of the seeds to Messrs. Low and Co. of the 

 Clapton Nursery. — Cond.] 



O'xalis crenata. — Should you have received any account of the late exhi- 

 bition at Falmouth, on the 28th of last month, you will have learned that one 

 of the greatest difficulties attending the cultivation of the O'xalis crenata has 

 been surmounted ; Mr. Pringle, the intelligent and enterprising gardener of 

 L. C. Daubuz, Esq., of Truro, having upon that occasion produced a dish of 

 the tubers of this plant, the growth of the present year, which were much ad- 

 mired both for their size and beauty. Mr. Pringle will, I trust, communicate 

 the process by which he has succeeded in obtaining this desirable result, 

 through the medium of your valuable Magazine, to the public for general in- 

 formation. You will also have learned from that report (inserted in the 

 West Briton of the 30th of May) that Sir Charles Lemon, with that zeal for 

 science, and that desire to promote the interests of society, for which he has 



