HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. Jg^ 



demonstrated the true origin of cultivated "wheat, 'which others before him 

 only imagined and have indicated doubtfully." 



Whatever consideration, however, may be due to this expression of so 

 acute and practical an observer, who not only from personal acquaintance 

 ■with a near neighbor, but from an immediate inspection of the result 

 obtained by these experiments, was in a condition to judge of the correct- 

 ness of the observations, and the justice of the inferences, the subject is too 

 important not to make one wish for a repetition of the experiments by a 

 combination of many persons of different views — experiments which are 

 easy of repetition, and have no other difficulty than the length of time 

 requisite before the necessary result can be attained. We have before 

 us the coincidence of two genera so different in apparently essential 

 characters as Triticum and iEgilops, and the question arises, if a transition 

 between these is established, must not other genera of Graminese in a similar 

 way fall to the ground ? But more especially, inasmuch as the normal con- 

 dition of the several species of iEgilops is maintained in their native 

 localities, it is requisite to know more perfectly than we have learned from 

 M. Fabre, what are the conditions and influences under which the observed 

 changes have taken place, before we can regard the results which have been 

 obtained as perfect verities in the annals of science and agriculture. — 

 Gardeners Chronicle. 



FOREIGN PATRONAGE. 



Under this caption we would beg leave to draw attention to a review 

 contained in the Gardener's Chronicle of April 8th of the present year 

 (p. 218). ' 



The subject of the review is an essay by Dr. Joseph Leidy, on a Fauna 

 and Flora within living animals, published by the Smithsonian Institution, 

 April, 1853. 



xVfter the introductory sentence, it is stated of the essay in question, that 

 " it may be true that it does not contain much which may not be found in 

 Robin's second edition of his admirable work on the fungals which grow 

 upon animals;" a short distance afterwards, "we would point out more 

 especially the plates which represent the curious parasites which infest the 

 intestines of different species of lulus, and the several entozoa which live in 

 their company ; for though the principal of them are not overlooked by 

 Robin, there is nothing in his plates as regards these particular productions 



