550 Odour of Laurel Leaves injurious to Plants. 



racter of being higher flcavoured than the Marie Louise. And 

 the latter has also another rival in the Louise Bonne (of Jersey), 

 particularly in the north of England, as I am very credibly 

 informed. 



Of Plums, none appear to exceed in flavour the Reine Claude 

 Violette. Pond's Seedling is a very large and handsome red 

 fruit, deserving cultivation. The Ickworth Imperatrice, raised 

 by Mr. Knight, has fruited for the first time in this garden, and 

 is very excellent; it is rather earlier than the old Imperatrice, 

 much larger, and richer. Coe's fine late red has been ascertained 

 to be the same as the St. Martin Rouge of the French, 



A very handsome plum, grown by Mr. Denyer, and called by 

 the popidar name of Queen Victoria, has been seen. A notice 

 of this, on the cover of the Gardener'' s Magazine for November, 

 requires some correction. I must be understood to have said 

 that it resembled the red Magnum Bonum only in size; for, in 

 other respects, it is very different. It has most resemblance to 

 Sharp's Emperor ; and both have the peculiarity of a remarkably 

 tender stone. It is very large, roundish oval, red, with a fine 

 bloom. It may be a distinct sort, or it may not ; but, however 

 that may be, Mr. Denyer acknowledges, very honourably, that 

 he did not raise it, but obtained it without a name, and, as it 

 deserves, has brought it into notice. 



In the general season of Cherries, none exceed in flavour the 

 Elton and Downton. Among a collection of German sorts, 

 received from Dr. Diel of Nassau, there is one which deserves 

 to be made known on account of its lateness ; for it was hang- 

 ing on the tree, without being in the least shrivelled, when the 

 frost became severe at the end of October. It was received 

 under the name of " Buttner's October Sucker Weichsel ; " it 

 is not, however, a sweet cherry, and might be called Buttner's 

 October Morello. It is, externally and internally, of the colour 

 of a Morello, but of a rounder form ; the flavour is much the 

 same, and it will, doubtless, be found to answer all the purposes 

 of the Morello, whilst it may be gathered fresh from a standard 

 two months later. 



Art. III. An Account of some Trials made tvith tfie Leaves of the 

 common Laurel, for destroying Lisects. By J. H. A. 



Having read, in the Gardener's Magazine, an account of a 

 method of destroying the difi'erent insects that infest plants, 

 taken from a paper read before the Horticultural Society, I 

 was induced to give it a trial, as the means stated were so 

 simple. I accordingly procured a quantity of laurel leaves ; 

 and, having well bruised them, spread them in the evening on 



