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tlie seed, producing pretty, sizeable, well-swelled 

 fruit, and were spoken of as being high flavoured, but 

 differing in size and shape from each other ; one only 

 was of a pyramidal shape, similar to the Enville, 

 but not in colour, and the other two were somewhat 

 oval shaped. There was, at the time the parent En- 

 ville was in bloom, in the same house, some Queens, 

 a Black Jamaica, and a Green Olive. ¥e cannot ac- 

 count for the hybridising which certainly did take 

 place, farther than the bee had free access at the 

 time of ventilation. 



Mr. Speechley's directions for raising seedlings are 

 as follows : — The pots should be prepared and filled 

 with soil to within one inch of the top, and plunged 

 in a warm part of the tan-bed, a day or two before 

 the seed is sown, that the soil may become heated. 

 The seeds should be sown an inch apart, and covered 

 to the depth of about a quarter of an inch. Place a 

 piece of glass over the top of the pot, to which it 

 should fit very close, or cover the whole with a small 

 hand glass ; this, by preventing the mould from dry- 

 ing, and giving an additional heat to it near the sur- 

 face, will soon cause the seeds to vegetate. Neither 

 air nor water will be required till the plants begin to 

 appear, when a little air should be given in the day- 

 time only; let the plants be sprinkled over with water 

 every four or five days, in case the weather is fine and 

 clear ; but should it prove dark and moist, once in ten 



