-A THE GARDENERS’ 
do not hesitate to give several aspres* for a choice 
blosso I, too, had to pay pretty dearly for these 
nosegays, although they are nominally presents, for 
on each occasion I had to pull out a few aspres as 
my acknowledgement of the gift.” At the Turkish 
inns or caravanserais, he mentions Oaions and 
Leeks, fruits as dried Pru es, 
Pears, Figs, Qainces, Raisins, and Cornel-berries, as 
being exp for sale to travellers. Here, also, he 
of Raisins, hot-water, and afterwards cooled with 
snow. At Algeos, he and his suite die covered a 
copse of Liquorice trees, and “gorge ed * 
with the juice from their roots.“ Here „ he 
found the Grapes, which in many places ‘ey keep 
till summer, most refreshing at times; and he further 
describes the following method of preserving vrig 
lect a bunch in which the Gra rapes are of 
good size and fully ripe, a condition 1 25 is easily 
brought about by the sun in Turk 
tightly in it, and continue putting in more Grapes 
and Mustard, and finally they pour in over all a 
quantity of anfermented wine as er as possible, after 
which the vessel is then sealed and kept in a cool 
place until the 151 summer weather sets in, when 
people are thirsty, and refreshment of this kind is 
acceptable, They then unseal the coms — i mom 
the Grapes for sale, together with the sauce of win 
aad Mustard, which last the Tarks like alee as well 
as the Grapes themselves.’ 
q that the flavour of Mustard was not 
to hia own liking, so that he ad his Grapes was 
t You must not be surprised,” says he to his cor- 
respondent, “at my gratefully recording in my letter 
to mele = te things that proved beneficial to myself, 
will remember that the Ezyptians carried 
this 3 to such an absurd length, that they 
worshipped as gods the vegetables of * own 
G 
civility of the pəople, and the superior quality of 
heir white wine! Arriving at Laezko, across the 
river Drave, on his homeward journey, the officials 
wine. “They reer. 
and ms 
tifal gifts; and Basbecq is so enthusiastic that he 
doubts if even the far-famed and fertile Campania 
itself could have furnished such superb a as were 
here given to him. He mentions again the Grape- 
vine as being planted at the foot of the * trees, 
ears 
Water 9 s wit 5 
ball” Per Melons] 
rides abroad, he replies, The country and the fields 
are what I enjoy, and not a town, but I am now a 
make the Turks think that oo rigorous confinement 
is no great punishment to 
On his second ee to — a he 
lao 
draughtsman, to prepare drawings of objects of 
natural history. On his final return from Constan- 
tinople, Busbecq brought to Europe 
beautiful thorough-bred horses, an exploit of which 
‘asper ” the lowest coin in Turkey, _— 
ee: ean 5 en part of a penny, but worth m 
morein Busbecq’s 
J. - Then, in reply to an 
inquiry from his correspondent as to whether he 
CHRONICLE. [Arm 13, 1895, 
+ evidently was very proud, as py * puey 
which no one before me has d . He also 
Beers: six she camelr, and soar att some 1 
drawings of plants and animals which he had had 
made for e adding, but as to plants and 
shrubs themselves, I have few or e ave 
besides a great quantity of old coins, and who 
waggonfuls, whole shiploads of Greek manuscripts, 
There are, I believe, not much fever than 240 books, 
which I sent by sea * Venice, to be c onveyed 
fr t Vienna, for their destination is 
the Imperial Library ian some not to b 
despised, and many es. ansacked 
that remained of such wares, The only one I left at 
Constantinople was a copy of Dioscorides, evidently : a 
ters, and containing drawings of the plants, in . 
— ot of 
vas (= Greek herbalist), and a treatise on birds, 
It aan to a Jew, the son of Hamon, who was 
Solyman’s physician, and I wanted to buy it, but was 
deterred by the price: for he demanded 100 ducats, a 
sum suiting the imperial purse, but not mine. I shall 
not leave off pressing the — till I induce him 
t 7 thor fi ench foul slavery.” 
is some consolation to know that the Emperor 
eventually did secure it for the library at Vienna, 
where it is still preserved, It was written at Con- 
stantinople | towards the end of oe fifth century for 
i is illustrated by a figure, and there are two 
miniature drawings on second and third pages, each 
representing seven famous botanists and physicians 
assembled in consultation; and there is a picture of 
Dioscorides on the fifth page engaged in the compo- 
sition of his work.* 
Thus far T have extracted from Basbecq’s Turkish 
Letters in Forsters and Daniell’s Life and Letters t 
of this remarkable man, a few only of the e fate 
remarks of this celebrated ern who was sin 
gularly Thay, and modern in his idea aaa 
taster, even though he lived and rae cdhsiderably 
over three S ago. His 0 MS. 
of Dioscorides seems to have aoe Matthiolus to 
write his great work or commentary on that author, 
while, by introducing the Tulip, and probably es 
bulbs, through his friend Ciusius to Vienna, 
eventually to Holland, he doubless laid the fonds 
soap for a ane seas industry. We are prond 
f our own travellers and authors on garden botany 
ae (1508), Gerard 1 (1597); and Parkinson (1629- 
640), but Basbecq advantages in time and in 
ae and right bin: he turned 77 5 he his 
country’s advantage, and we never ought ee the 
glowing sheen of a Tulip, or smell the 3 of 
the Lilac in our early summer's sunshine without 
feeling grateful to the man who was instrumental 
in bringing them to our gardens, F. W. Burbidge, 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
ue à it - : ö 2 E 
ARISTOLOCHIA DAMMERIANA, Mast 
Tuts is an undescribed species met 
friend Dr. Dammer in Mr, Bü an hay a 
Lichterfelde, near Berlin, and introduced fron 
Central Aian iea with, or for, the seeds of 
A. grandiflora. Search in the Berlin aa 
for a species identical with it has been fruit- 
S 
remarkable pictures. e 
į 8 ea and Fonte ae Agi > 1 i Busbecq, &, 
Pro “London (1881): Kegal, faut 28 1 — e 
stolochia ($ Gymnolobu ) Damme iana. sad 8| 
8 scabri d — 
e 
* 5 * alabrinsculis oblongis — basi 
lese, and so also has been our own examina- 
tion of the Kew herbarium, nor among the notes 
taken when preparing our monograph of the 
genus is there any record i will fit the present 
plant. The foliage is like that of A. maxima, but 
the inflorescence and the straight-tubed perianth are 
quite different. It is a climber, the old stems covered 
with a corky bark, the shoots slender, striated, the 
leaves rather leathery, cordate,oblong, acute ; the 
hai 
long, the lower portion distended and oblique, ex- 
panding into a trumpet- shaped tube terminated bya 
limb, which on one side is two-lobed, the two lobes 
separated by a narrow notch, and on the other pro- 
longed into a flat oblong acute, caudate expansion, 
Dr. Dammer has observed some curious facts re 
leaves are similarly appressed, but bent downwards |; 
whilst the oldest ones at the base foir at right 
angles from the stem <-. M. T. Mas 
THE FERTILISATION OF 
GOODENIACE, Ko. 
ILTON has lately written 
and 28, 1894, upon the fertilisation of the remark- 
able flowers of this order, as well as of Clerodendron 
anthers, which then falle within it, At this ti 
he stigmas are sen immature, so that sitter 
sation cannot then take Lpr In the next stage 
+ 
in an imm 
state of the flower, the petals expanding simul- 
15 22 with the ejection of the pollen from = 
cup. The mouth of the cup reste upon the“ brush 
like,” sticky collecting-hairs of the petals, upon 
ich f us 
l 
Scævola, but not in others, the leat, which together 
with the flower-bad in its axil, was at firat erect, 
the leaf, and have free access to the flower ; so that, 
8288 every facility is afforded for i inter- 
crossi 
But Son follows a perplexing anomaly which the 
author thus describes:—‘‘ Before the stigma hat 
grown so much as to project from the opening of the 
indusium, the flower withers... the supporting 
leaf, by a twisting of the leaf-stalk, moves round 20 
as to be N he flower, and then turns on one side 
ceals It is during this movement, 
after it is 3 that the stigma first emerges 
from the indusium.” It would thus seem to pre, 
intercrossing just before the period when it would be 
possible to doit. Proof, however, that stigmas do 
receive foreign pollen is forthcoming from the 
that moth-scales ‘are generally found adhering to 
e 
analogous procedure to the first part of the : pee 
process takes p in Campanas, for the a 
aribus diets thy aun Pte du apt longioribus e i 
Figs — basi oblique Seite bi in potes i 
l ilo ki 2 
fundibal arem dilatato 1 limbo antic ris anne” l umna infrs 
nervis eg remotis ascendentibus arcuatis 
tiariis subapproximatis horizontaliter patentib i 3 
25 mill. long, juventute densissime pilosis; pedunculis axil- 
apicem 6-loba lobis ovatis acutis, mothers ¢ 6 m ae 
attingentes; ovario angusto a t 
hort, Blüth, Berolinensi, cult ; 
