

314 THE PHILADELPHIA FLORIST. [No. 10 



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Weigela rosea, a very handsome spring blooming shrub, with rosy£* 

 pink blossoms 5 and of another hardy plant, the Forsylbia viridissima, 

 with very dark green leaves and charming yellow Mowers- 5 both are 

 now well known in the neighborhood of our large cities. 



The "Chronicle" is translating an article on the impossibility of 

 predicting the weather, written by M. Arago, for the "Flore des Series 

 et des jardins de PEurope," a most valuable work published at Ghent. 



James Cuthill, of Camberwell, the most intelligent writer on root 

 growing whose productions we see, and whose article on the Potato 

 we copy into our present number, contributes an article on keeping 

 roots and on growing winter vegetables. He deprecates the keeping 

 roots intended for the table, dry, as they become tough, and require 

 soaking. He recommends keeping the crop in the ground until want- 

 ed for use j such is the custom of the London market gardeners. 



The Entomological article is on the common dust moth, Jlgrotis 

 segetum, the caterpillar of which attacks turnip crops, doing great da- 

 mage. In our new volume we hope to receive valuable original con- 

 tributions on this science. 



An account is given of the progress of the great Crystal Palace in 

 its new quarters at Sydenham. Sir Joseph Paxton, with his skill in 

 hydraulics, will make a magnificent show of fountains and cascades. 

 The Park contains three hundred acres. Messrs. Loddiges' plants are 

 already secured for the Company, and it is reported that 50,000 scar- 

 let Geraniums have been contracted for, for bedding purposes. The 

 collection of trees will, no doubt, be very splendid ; and landscape gar- 

 dening will be displayed to the greatest advantage. 



In London, there are, in round numbers, about 240,000 fat oxen, 

 1,500,000 sheep and lambs,30,000 calves, and 40,000 swine annually 

 slaughtered. 



A remark has been made in our pages, that gardeners generally 

 seemed to consider all names of plants feminine. There does seem to 

 be a great confusion of ideas with regard to the proper termination of 

 adjpctive names; but how it is to be mended without making all gar- 

 deners moderately good Latin and Greek scholars, we know not. The 

 merely mechanical rule, that the terminations of generic and specific 

 names should be the same, will answer in most cases ; but there are 

 instances where it will not do, as in some names of Greek derivation, 

 and some Latin names ending in us are feminine, as Citrus, which 

 must have medica ; the pomegranate is called Punica granatum, the 

 generic and specific names of which are both nouns, Granatum being I 

 the Latin name of the fruit, as also Punica, as we learn from Colum- A 

 (*u ella, ; Mala dulcia granata, quae Punica vocantur,' 'sweet many seeded S\ 



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