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is one. The Triomphe de Gergovia, supposed to 

 be a new acquisition, proved to be nothing more 

 than Auguste Ferrier, with the name altered. 



Since the appearence of the foregoing sorts, con- 

 tinues M. Chate, M. Louis Van Houtte has intro- 

 duced a new kind (RannncuHflora plenissimaj, sim- 

 slar at first sight to Martial de Chanflourd, but 

 presenting appreciable differences — the flowers 

 being more abundant, the color paler, and the 

 shape more perfect. N. Lemoine has also obtained 

 a new double variety, Grioire de Nancy, which in 

 M .Chate's opinion surpasses all that have pre- 

 ceded it. In this, which was the result of crossing 

 I Martial de Chanflourd with Beaute du Suresne, 

 ' the flowers are full and well formed, though not 

 more abundant than in other sorts. 



From the variegated Auguste Ferrier, which flow- 

 ers luxuriantly, and yields good seeds, M. Chate has 

 obtained a plant with flowers of a fresh pink color, 

 in which, though the doubhng is not considerable, 

 it is expected that the seeds will be numerous, and 

 that their produce will yield novel and interesting 

 results. An impulse has been given, and it only 

 remains that it should be as energetically followed 

 up. This done, we shall no doubt in a few years 

 possess Pelargoniums with double flowers, the 

 plants as auriferous, and the colors as varied as in 

 the single varieties. We may add that Gloire de 

 Nancy was shown in fine condition at the Royal 

 Botanic Society's show last Wednesday, and that 

 its head of flowers, bears much resemblance to those 

 of the double scarlet Lj'chnis," — Gard. Chronicle. 



also to plant it on poor soil to ensure its wood ripen- 

 ing. Mr. Loudon also recommends its being worked 

 on the common Walnut, either at the collar to form 

 dwarf bushes, or standard high for trees, as probably 

 inducing greater hardiness. If used for avenues 

 this would be the best mode of proceeding, and so 

 treated it would have a striking and novel appear- 

 ance. -A Practical Hand, in Gard. Chronicle. 



Pterocarya caucasica.-As this tree is compar- 

 atively rare and probably few will answer "W. M. 

 E.'s" query (p. 1201), 1 hasten to state the little I 

 know upon the subject. I only know one other plant 

 besides the one at Cambridge, and that is a mere 

 bush in a gentleman's garden at Bury St. Edmund's. 

 It would not be wise to generalize from such limited 

 experience, but the tree seems to me but little 

 adapted for forming an avenue ; and for such an 

 object could not for one moment compete with 

 Ailantus glandulosus, which it much resembles, the 

 Ailantus being by far the nobler tree of the two. A 

 full account of the Pterocarya will be found in 

 "Loudon's Arboretum." Reference is there made 

 to large plants of it at Croome, in Worcestershire, 

 and at Versailles, where it flowers every year. It is 

 described as forming a broard-spreading tree, about 

 30 feet high, and although affected by frost, is sufl&- 

 ciently hardy to be classed among ornamental trees 

 of the third rank. It is readily increased by layers. 

 Care should be taken to train it to a single stem, and 



LiLiUM TESTACEUM. — This fine Lily, the L. ex- 

 celsum of some catalogues, is now pretty common in 

 gardens, but I do not think it is generally known that 

 so far from being a native of Japan, as some authors 

 and most trade lists inform us, there are good rea- 

 sons for believing it to be a hybrid. This much is 

 certain : Dr. Von Siebold never met with the plant 

 in Japan ; whether more recent collectors have done 

 so would be an interesting inquiry. It appears to 

 have been first brought into general cultivation by 

 Mr. F. A. Haage, of Erfurt, who states that it wag 

 detected byhim in a batch of MartagonLilies received 

 from Holland though oddly enough the Dutch and 

 Belgian nurserymen knew nothing of the plant, and 

 were among the first and most eager to purchase 

 stock. The Haarlem growers regarded it as a degen- 

 erate variety of the Martagon Lily. Mr. Haage him_ 

 self believed it to be a hybrid between the common 

 White Lily and the L. croceum, but the opinion of 

 M. Spae, author of a "Memoire sur les Especes du 

 Grenre Lis," that its parents are the L. candidum 

 and L. chalcedonicura, is far more likely to be cor- 

 rect. Though it does not develop its radical foliage 

 in autumn, like the White Lily, it is one of the ear- 

 liest to throw up its stem in spring ; further it has 

 much of the habit of the L. candidum, as well as its 

 fragrance ; while the influence of the pollen of L. 

 chalcedonicnm is clearly shown in its pendent flow- 

 ers with their half-reflexed segments, as well as in 

 the chamois or buff color, naturally resulting from 

 the admixture of its vermilion with the virginal 

 white of the L. candidum. Moreover, the white 

 downy margin distinguishing the foliage of the male 

 parent is eqally present in the hybrid plant in a 

 modified degree ; and it is worthy of remark that 

 the L. testaceum never ripens perfect seed which 

 in itself is a strong proof of its hybrid origin. — W. 

 T., in Gardener s Chronicle. 



Potting Strawberries for Forcing.— For 

 runners of the present year we prefer pots 4| inches 

 in diameter, well drained, and filled with rich turfy 

 loam beaten firm, and the runners are laid in these 

 in July. We detach the runners from the parent 

 plants in September, keeping off all runners prior to 



