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25*1. CYRTOPO'DIUM Tp.r.w Bot mag. 2507 



punctatum Lindl. spotted i« EI or 3 ap.my Gsh Y and R spotted with R Brazil 1823 D 

 Synonyme : Epidendrum punctatum, Lin. Sp. p. 1348., and Hort. Brit. No. 22732. 



A superb plant, sent, many years'ago, from Brazil, by William 

 Swainson, Esq., and which never flowered in this country till 

 the spring of 1835, when the plant in the Glasgow Botanic 

 Garden produced the fine specimen now figured. The 

 pseudo-bulbs of this species are IJ ft. to 2 ft. long. The flowers 

 are large and handsome, with the petals and sepals oblong, wavy, 

 yellow, the latter chiefly spotted with red purple. {Bot. Reg., 

 Aug.) 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, 



Art. I. General Notices. 



A NEWLY RECOMMENDED Remedy for destroying the Red Spider on plants is 

 said to consist of syringing the plants with water in which common salt has 

 been dissolved. A teaspoonful of salt to a gallon of water is as much as can 

 be used with safety ; and it will be well to wash the tree with pure water a day 

 or two after the application of the salt. {Scotsman, April 20. 1836.) 



Three Crops a Year of Wheat, as hinted at by one of your correspondents in 

 Vols. X. and XI., or of any other annual plant, in the climate of Britain, I 

 conceive to be impossible. According to my experience, the same sorts of 

 wheat, sown at different periods, from Feb. 24. to May 5., have ripened in 

 158 days, 140, 122, 106, and the last-sown quantity, on May 5., in 86 days. 

 Does it follow from this, that, because a crop has ripened in 86 days, and 

 there are above four times 86 days in the year, that four crops a year can be 

 obtained, or even two ? By no means. Adanson started a hypothesis re- 

 specting the duration of annual plants, which appears to me to be founded on 

 truth, though it may not, perhaps, be correct to the letter. It is, that every 

 species requires a certain number of degrees of heat to arrive at maturity ; 

 and that, according to the climate, and the time of sowing, a certain period, 

 more or less long, was required to bring it to maturity ; and, accordingly, that 

 the plant would have its life proportionally shortened or prolonged. This 

 proposition, which, if carried too far, would lead to error, when combined 

 with other circumstances necessary for the accomplishment of the different 

 periods of vegetation, may give rise to very interesting and very true ideas on 

 the subject. — Vilmorin. Paiis, May, 1836. 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



Horticultural Fetes are now becoming fashionable, both among public 

 bodies and private individuals. One was given in the Surrey Zoological Gardens 

 on July 26., which was numerously attended by persons of all ranks ; one 

 was given at Vauxhall on the 2d of August ; and several have been given by the 

 different noblemen and others who have villas near town. We could mention 

 a number of particular instances; but this general notice will suffice for our 

 present purpose, which is, to suggest to proprietors of parks and villas, in 

 different parts of the country, the idea of occasionally adopting the Russian 

 practice of giving a fete to all the neighbouring public, high and low, without 



