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stowed "— опел meti gres are less careful on 
y 
this others. each variet 
m зе ЗА M pe and a lead o 
leather tally fastened by means of a piece of flexible 
coppe d wire is b is advice applies more 
to growers who cultivate а few sort ол а 
may put t dm aside in some oe lac 
examine them frequently. 
and not 
AR ала collection 
grown it is requisite to look them 
t din 
ch w 
is to keep the roots dry, a ost w 
pr A dry cellar mii well, for it is invariably 
сч in winter without being close; but the ro 
be placed on a ek or shelf raised — r^ 
level of the flooring, if they are placed on the 
bricks, and they prove i little damp, the tubers are 
o 
FIG. I3I,—THE PLAIN OF ANKAY, MADAGASCAR, 
(t become the Bii Sp рие. ed) isa узи! place 
е тоо 
precaution is erai necessary. 
5 be made 
e of the stem should be oi as in the 
decaying i it might endanger crown, 
EST m the portion of the root most nec maro to be 
a slovenl 
very choice roots, in 
of seedlings of creat merit, or scarce and 
Varieties, cannot do better than 
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large pots in dry soil, without shaking any earth from 
the roots, and amg place th llar, and i 
the spring, when they a 
1 апа iam the small fibres, 
We have been requested by Mr. J. T. РЕА 
cock, of Hammer rsmith, А. notice the FA made 
by M. CARRIÈRE, in a recent — of the Revue 
AG: alain ng precedence for name Aga 
Consider. ver that of AGAVE D КЕСІМ, 
published L . 484. he plant was shown 
sa new species at Cologne," writes Mr. 
PEACOCK, “апа I eens oun. i и exhi- 
bitor on that occasion, Е SM t pur- 
ке to be A" whole = ‘ine existing ком of this 
It was purchased any reservation as 
s ‘ths name, “though i in a emi ні а short time 
afterwards, M. DE SMET eser ie d m that 
"e quite Бирин fr tas to иода 
the TEER, iti is deas impossible for me to wi w 
qu am the more confirmed in this h 
of A. 
Кете а с t boen published in A botanical” sense, 
though ТАЛЕ proposes t о ee: it in the 
next num of his w . Itisto prin me e for 
aen NSIDÉRANT’S cake, that this mishap should have 
tit is not my fault, I have throughout 
acted with rfect good what is past canno 
w be ib eset arr add for ourselves, t 
pe aie nothing of M. "CONSIDERANT’S connection 
with this plant. We know oP oct ag a aig 
unnamed plant at Cologne, which 
far as we are aware, was "allowed to go esit erre 
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there; we were, — x quie prepared to give 
publicity бе the description of 
PEACO t, = «ё ун, intain that our 
eo has the priority over a name app a 
rivate collection, or even at exhibition, without 
diagnosis, and consequently that the name A 
Victorize геріп stand, unless our contemporary, 
who Ppa ts Sy ages to the RI ct w - 
quat ont 
the contrary. 
кт а ача “his priate to our Jos E) délicatesse, 
— ме, Jen Juan of the old-established 
firm of Woop & INGRAM, Huntingdon, has been 
ir a piad cpi of that town, 
—— In the August number of the Bulletin de la 
Société d Acclimatation de a remark- 
able instance : bere 
ie Mo res 
ible, 9 we have no reason to disbeliev ethem, 
A certain po A. DES JAMONIBRES writes from the 
(SEE P. 619.) 
Lower Loire that he has measured a 
E. in the park о 
P 
an por el can above 
—-— The following circular relating to the affairs 
of die RovAL. HORTICULTURAL Society has just 
- issued :— 
The Council of the Royal Horticultural Society have 
ы pleasure of announcing to the Fellows that they have 
succeeded in m fa; Las d 
or their attractiveness, 
hen wi desirous that the 
necessary addition to theiri income should be raised with- 
