642 Experiment on the Proi^agation of (jladiolus cardinalis. 



J^bies excelsa, 8 ft. girth, and 70 ft. high. 

 Picea peotinata, 8 ft. girth, and 70 ft. high. 

 Pinus sylvestris, 8 ft. 6 in. girth, and Q5 ft. high. 

 Pinus Pinaster, 9 ft. 6 in, girth, and 75 ft. high. 

 Pinus ^'trobus, 6 ft. girth, and 60 ft. high. 

 J^uniperus virginiana, 5 ft. girth, and 40 ft. high. 

 Plex Jquifolium, 3 ft. 10 in. girth, and 30 ft. high. 



The following are the dimensions of j'oung trees in the arboretum at Flit- 

 wick House, which was planted in the autumn of 1829. 

 Magnolw! conspicua, 10 ft. 6 in. high. Length of last year's shoots, 3 ft. 

 Aildnfus glandulosa, 3 ft. 4 in. girth, and 25 ft. high. 

 Kdlreuteria paniculata, 1 ft. 6 in. girth, and 10 ft. high. 

 Catalpa symigcBi6Y\a, 3 ft. 3 in. girth, and 14 ft. high, 

 ^'rbutus Jndrachne, I ft. 6 in. girth, and 7 ft. high. 

 Quercus Cerris, 1 ft. 10 in. girth, and 19 ft. high. 

 Quercus Cerris Ragnal, 2 ft. 5 in. girth, and 20 ft. high. 

 Juniperus sinensis mas, 1 1 ft. 6 in. high ; and J. s. foe'mina, 8 ft. 6 in. high. 

 Pinus hispanica, 8 ft, 6 in. high ; shoots of last year, 2 ft. 2 in, 

 Pinus Pinaster foliis variegatis, 10 ft. high. 



J^bies DouglasM, 2 ft. 5 in. girth, and 23 ft. high ; circumf. of branches, 17 yds. 

 Araucaria imbricata, 9 ft. high. — J. T. Broolis. April 29, 1843. 



Art. XV, Result of an Experiment made in endeavouring to propagate 

 the Gladiolus cardinalis. By Andrew Mackenzie, 



In your tour through Scotland in the summer of 1841, when calling at Blair- 

 Adam, among other things you observed the 6rladiolus cardinalis growing in 

 great perfection, and wished me to send you my mode of culture for the 

 Gardener's Magazine, which I did (see our Vol. for 1841, p. 461.) ; and in that 

 article I promised to give you an account of an experiment which I had 

 previously made, by dividing a large ball of the Gladiolus cardinalis into single 

 bulbs, and planting them in a bed in the usual way. This was done early in 

 the spring of 1841, and that season only two small flowers made their appear- 

 ance ; yet most of them stood the following winter without any protection ; 

 but the leaves were much smaller. 



In 1842 only one half of the bed came up, and all the plants were very 

 sickly, and none of them came into flower ; and in 1843 only one solitary leaf 

 came ujj : so that all the bed of single bulbs have perished. Had the large 

 ball of which this bed was composed been planted by itself, it would have 

 produced by this time from fifteen to twenty large trusses of flowers ; or, 

 propagated in the manner recommended in your Vol. for 1841, p, 461., would 

 have filled a bed. 



From the above experiment, the readers of the Gardener's Magazine will 

 seethe necessity of adopting the plan which I recommend, viz. of planting 

 the Gladiolus cardinalis in balls or clusters of corms. 



Blair- Adam Garden, Oct. 10. 1843. 



EEVIEWS. 



Aet. I. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, 

 Rural Architecture, Sf-c, lately published, with some Account of 

 those considered the more interesting. 



Treatise on the Management and Cidtivation of Forest Trees. By John 

 Smith, Gardener and Forester to the Most Noble the Marquis of Bute, &c. 



