1 22 Arboricultural Notices, supplementary to 



CaPPARIDA^CEjE. 



Capparis spinosa, Arb. Brit. p. 314. fig. 63., and Hort. Lig. p. 5.— The stool 

 of the plant which we have mentioned as having been sown by Bradley, on 

 the garden walls of Camden House, in 171G, and which was killed by a severe 

 frost in 1799, has lately been presented to us by Miss Teak, the present occu- 

 pier of Camden House, now a highly respectable school for young ladies. The 

 root, or stump, is about Gin. long, and liin. in diameter in the thickest part, 

 very tortuous, and with numerous knots and protuberances. — Cond. 



Anacardia v ceve. 



Amyris potygama, Duvau« dependens Dec., Arb. Brit. 558., and Hort. 

 Lig. 24., is a remarkably stiff-growing tree, and seldom loses its leaves in 

 the winter season. — W. F. S. Abbotsbury, Dorsetshire, Dec. 1838. 



Sophora japonica pendula first appeared in the French nurseries in 1813 

 or 1814. M. Joly, rural architect and cultivator, Rue des Fosses-Saint-Marcel 

 a Paris, and M. Jouet, pepinieriste, a Vitry-sur- Seine, disputed the honour of 

 having found it in a bed of seedlings. They may both have found it at the 

 same time. (Annates d'Hort. de Paris, vol. xix. p. 26.) 



Cytisus "Laburnum var. purpurdscens, Arb. Brit. 590., Hort. Lig. 27.; Pur- 

 ple Laburnum, Cytisus Adami Poit. ; is generally considered a hybrid ; but 

 the following facts will show that it is rather to be looked on as a particular 

 kind of sport. In 1825, D. Adam, nurseryman, at Vitry, budded, in the shield 

 manner, the purple cytisus on the Cytisus .Laburnum. The bud remained 

 dormant for one year, that is to say, it adhered, but did not develope its eye 

 into a branch ; but during that same year the "plate of the shield was found 

 covered with an irregular roughness round the eye, which roughness gradu- 

 ally formed into buds, germs, or small eyes ; these small eyes the second 

 year became elongated into branches of the purple cytisus, one branch ex- 

 cepted, which was much larger, longer, more vigorous, more vertical, and 

 of quite a different aspect from the rest, bearing a most particular resem- 

 blance to Cytisus Laburnum, apparently not retaining anything of its parent, 

 the purple cytisus (C. purpureus). However, the leaves of this novelty were 

 not quite so large as those of C. Laburnum, and were devoid of its pubes- 

 cence. The inflorescence was almost the same as that of C. Laburnum, 

 but the racemes were not quite so long, nor so well furnished with flowers, 

 and these were not quite so large, were of a pale dull yellow colour, tinged 

 with red, and in short, quite a new colour of its kind. Such is the Cytisus 

 Adamj (C. Laburnum purpurascens, Arb. Brit, as above). 



This new branch was multiplied by grafting, and soon spread extensively 

 among commercial gardeners. In some places it remained pure ; but at Rouen, 

 in the Jardin du Roi at Paris, and in the Domaine du Roi at Neuilly, after 

 remaining pure some years, it suddenly produced, from one of its axillary buds, 

 a branch having the leaves and flowers of the true Cytisus Laburnum. The 

 only instance known of a similar manner of sporting is in the Bizarrerie and 

 Bizarde oranges. At Rouen one plant has produced the true Cytisus 

 purpureus in one place, and the true Cytisus Laburnum in another. (Annates 

 d'Hort. Paris, vol. xxii. p. 8.) It is unnecessary to remind our readers, that 

 this has been the case in several instances in England. 



7?osA^CEiE. § ^mygdalesR. 



Prunus Cocomilla, Arb. Brit- 691., and Hort. Lig. 35. — In the Penny 

 Cyc., art. Cocumiglia, it is stated, that this species bears a general resem- 

 blance to the cultivated plum; that it is found on mountains in Calabria 

 as high as 3000 ft., and that with respect to its medical properties, as there is 

 a very close affinity between the Cocumiglia, the sloe, the bullace, and the 

 common cultivated plum, it is highly probable, that similar medical qualities 

 are possessed by all of them. The bark should be collected in the months of 

 November, December, or January ; that of the root is principally employed 





