the Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum. 123 



either in decoction or extract, and it is generally preferred to cinchona for 

 the cure of the intermittent fevers of Calabria. Its valuable qualities are 

 attested by Savaresi, Polizzi, Tenore, and other Neapolitan physicians. 



Vrunus myrobalana, Prunus domestica myrobalana, Arb. Brit. 688., Hort. 

 Lig. 35., has been used as a stock for the peach, nectarine, and apricot 

 in the nursery of M. Catros at Bordeaux, since the year 1802. The seeds 

 were at first received from North America ; only two plants were raised 

 from them, which were preserved as stools, and from them the stocks 

 used in the Bordeaux Nursery, and all those sold to other nurserymen, have 

 been raised. M. Catros died on the 11th of November, 1836, and the 

 nursery business is now carried on by his nephews, MM. Girard freres, who 

 say that they have myrobalans with yellow fruit, red fruit, and fruit of different 

 shades of colour. (Query bullaces.) The myrobalan, MM. Girard observe, 

 has the advantage of growing vigorously in every soil. It makes an ex- 

 cellent stock for plums, as well as peaches and apricots, and more particularly 

 for the Reine Claude (green gage), which, grafted on the myrobalan standard 

 high, produces magnificent fruit. (Annates d'Hort. Soc. de Paris, vol. xxi. 

 p. 304.) 



§ .Rosea?. 



Sjiorting of Roses, Arb. Brit. 748. — Mr. Willison of the New Garden 

 Nursery, near Whitby, cultivates extensively the different varieties of Moss 

 Rose ; and he was so much surprised to find one sort sport into another, as 

 to induce him to form the opinion, " that many of the new kinds of moss, and 

 other sorts, are only sported shoots of old varieties." (Marnocli 's Flor. Mag., 

 vol. iii. p. 74.) We have no doubt whatever of the correctness of Mr. Wil- 

 lison's opinion. Almost all variegated varieties of ligneous plants have been 

 obtained in this manner, and in particular all our variegated hollies. New 

 kinds of Chinese chrysanthemums, and other herbaceous plants, are also 

 often so obtained, as well as from seed. — Cond. 



Caprifolia v ce^e. § Lonicens. 



Lei/cesteria formosa, Arb. Brit. 1060. fig. 827., and Hort. Lig. 65. — This 

 fine shrub flowered in the autumn of 1838, in the open air, in the Horti- 

 cultural Society's Garden, and also the same season, under glass, in the Edin- 

 burgh Botanical Garden. It is figured in the Bot. Reg. and the Bot. Mag. 

 for Jan. 1839, as mentioned in our Flor. Not., p. 71. L. formosa turns out 

 to be not quite so beautiful as was expected ; but to compensate for this, 

 it appears to be quite hardy, of the easiest culture and propagation, and 

 an evergreen. It may, therefore, in a few years, be found on our cottage walls 

 and arbours, along with the common honeysuckle, the China rose, Lonicera 

 flexuosa, and Wistaria sinensis. — Cond. 



Olea v cEjE. § Syringece. 



Syringa. — It is recommended to graft the different species of lilac on the 

 O'rnus rotundifolia, or flowering ash, in order to retard the appearance of the 

 blossoms, and so prolong the season of that very beautiful shrub ; but whe- 

 ther the lilacs would endure many years on this ash is very doubtful, since the 

 period of the movement of the sap in the two trees is very different ; the 

 lilacs expanding their leaves fully a month before the ash trees. (Annates de la 

 Societe d'Hort. die Nord, as quoted in Annates d'Hort. de Paris, torn. xx. p. 88.) 



§ Fraxineae. 

 Frdxinus oxyphylla Bieb., F. excelsior parvifolia oxycarpa, Arb. Brit 

 1230. fig. 1053., and Hort. Lig. 81. — The Hon. Mr. Fox Strangways, in send- 

 ing us some seeds of this species of ash, which he had received from the 

 Crimea, observes that he thinks " that all the small-leaved ashes, which he 

 has seen in the south of Europe, viz. F. oxyphylla, F. oxycarpa, F. rostrata, 

 F. /entiscifolia, &c, are but one species, which extends from the Black Sea to 

 Italy j and that F. excelsior -seems not to exist near the Mediterranean 



