Domestic Notices : — England. 7 03 



before, that I consider new. They arc NemophiUi aurita, which ripens seeds 

 in the open ground ; Eutoca viscida, ilfalope trifida alba, Leptosiphon densi- 

 florus, and several others. I have seen roods of Salpigldssis and of Schizanthus 

 pinnatLis, S. huiniUs, and a still more dwarf one, not above 6 in. high ; but they 

 have got no name for it yet. Collins/a bicolor, and Coreopsis atrosanguinea 

 (CaUiopsis bfcolor var.), have been beautiful in several places. — J. Watts, 

 Gardener to G. Roiuandy Esq., East Hill, Colchester, Essex, Aug. 1836. 



'Lupinus nanus. — I saw a bed of this interesting dwarf annual, more than 

 a rood, last week, in full bloom, at Mr. Wm. Cant's, nurseryman and seed- 

 grower, Colchester ; who also had in a frame, from which he has saved seeds, 

 a fine plant of Ipomoe^a bona-nox, which I believe to be rather scarce. — Id. 



Blue Dahlias. — A very extensive and successful cultivator was asked the 

 other day whether or not the dahlia fancy was nearly over. He replied, it 

 was only beginning; for, said he, notwithstanding the vast numbers of magni- 

 ficent varieties now in cultivation, they will soon give way to other variously 

 tinted kinds, which will be every year raised from seed. All dahlia-growers 

 are now endeavouring to raise a blue variety ; an object which, according 

 to Professor De CandoUe, is never likely to be attained. Nothing can be 

 more vague than our associations respecting colour, especiall}' when we are 

 speaking of flowers, whose tints are more generally intermediate or com- 

 pound than primitive. Of deep navy blue, and various shades of a deeper 

 tint, passing into violet, there certainly were many dahlias at the Sydney 

 Gardens ; but to the turquoise, or the blue of lapis lazuli (the colour to which 

 we presume De Candolle alludes), there certainly was no approximation, 

 {Bath Journal, Sept. 20. 1836.) 



The Cape Shallot. — With this you will receive a few bulbs of a very 

 distinct variety of shallot, which seems not to be known in the south. It 

 grows much larger than the common sort; but I am not aware that its 

 quality is superior : some call it the " Cape shallot." — J. B. W. Kiplin, Cat- 

 tericlc, Sept. 15, 1836. 



Scale on the Pine may be totally destroyed by a moist heat of 125° Fahr. ; 

 which, provided the plants are in a growing state, may be applied without the 

 slightest injury to them. By these means, Mr. Spence (gardener to R. Durant, 

 Esq., Putney Hill), who never plunges them in the bed, obtains very fine 

 fruit ; and the plants now under his care are all of them looking remarkably 

 clean and healthy.— W. H B. Sept. 27. 1836. 



Budding the Vine I think of great importance, on account of its simplicity 

 and certainty of success. It takes but a few minutes to insert the buds ; and 

 the operation can be performed alike upon vines in a hot-house that are to be 

 forced early, and on plants growing against a wall in the open air. All that 

 is requisite is to save the prunings of those vines which you intend to in- 

 crease, and to keep them in a dormant state till the vines you intend to bud 

 upon have made shoots 6 in. or 8 in. long. The buds will then grow freely, 

 and will take on wood ten or twenty years old, equally well as they will on 

 that which is only one or two years old. — J. Spence, Gardener to R. DuranC, 

 Esq., Putney Hill, Oct. 8. 1836. 



Italian Melons. — Seeds of a number of sorts were sent us last spring, by 

 our much-valued correspondent, Signor Manetti, of Monza. (Seep. 159.) We 

 distributed the seeds among such gardeners as undertook to send us a 

 specimen of the fruit, and we have received two or three dozen of specimens; 

 but, with the exception of one or two kinds, corresponding with our Canta- 

 loups, their flavour was not remarkable. Some of them, indeed, of the smooth, 

 green, white-fleshed varieties, are considered sweet or sugary melons on the 

 Continent, and are not expected to have much flavour. Considerable allow- 

 ance must also be made for the present very unfavourable season. The most 

 successful grower of Sr. Manetti's melons was Mr. Mills, gardener to Mrs. 

 Rothschild, Gunnersbury Park, 



Persian Melons. — Some seeds of a Persian melon having been sent to us 

 by C. M. Willich; Esq., we gave the seeds to Mr. Glendinning, on condition 



