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almost every species, exclusive of the Fir tribe, might he propagated with 

 perfect success and facility by the same means. 



Evergreen trees, of some species, possess the power of ripening their fruit 

 during winter. The common Ivy and the Loquat are well-known examples 

 of this ; and this circumstance, combined with many others, led me to infer 

 that the leaves of such trees possess in a second year the same, or at least, 

 nearly the same power as they possessed in the first. I therefore planted 

 about a month ago some cuttings of the old double-blossomed white and 

 Warrahtah Camellia, having reduced the wood to little more than half an 

 inch in length, and cut it off obliquely, so as to present a long surface of it ; 

 and I reduced it further by paring it very thin and near to its lower ex- 

 tremities. The leaves continue to look perfectly fresh, and the buds in 

 more than one instance have produced shoots of more than an inch in length, 

 and apparently possessing perfect health and much vigor. Water has been 

 very abundantly given ; because I conceived that the flow of the arterial 

 sap from the leaf would be so great, comparatively with the quantity of the 

 bark and alburnum of the cuttings, as to preclude the possibility of the 

 rotting of these. 



The cuttings above described, presented in the organization a considerable 

 resemblance to seedling trees of different periods of the growth of the 

 latter. The bud very closely resembles the plumule, and the leaf, the 

 cotyledon, extended into a seed leaf; and the organ which has been, and is 

 called a radicle, is certainly a caudex, and not a root. It is capable of being 

 made to extend in some cases, to more than two hundred times its first 

 length, between two articulations, a power which is not possessed in any 

 degree by the roots of trees. Whether the caudex of the cuttings of 

 Camellias above mentioned have emitted, or will, or will not, emit roots, I 

 am not yet prepared to decide, but I entertain very confident hopes of 

 success. — Flor. Cab. 



The Rev. Charles Fox, of Grosse Isle, near Detroit, Michigan, died of 

 cholera on the 24th inst. He was English by birth, had for many years 

 officiated worthily and acceptably as an Episcopal clergyman, but bought an 

 islet in Detroit River and turned farmer some four years ago, and has since 

 devoted himself to agriculture and its improvement with enthusiasm and 

 success. He established The Farmer s Companion some eighteen months 

 ago, and last winter published "The American Text-Book of Agriculture," 

 which has been received with marked favor. 



