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of the Rhine, in the neighborhood of Bonn. But 

 when European nations became alive to the benefits 

 likely to accrue from the extended commerce with 

 Japan, he was encouraged to take up his pen, to 

 serve as pioneer and guide to the fleets of commerce. 

 This he did by means of a work intituled "Urkund- 

 liche Darsfcellung das Bestrebungen von Niederland 

 und Russland zurErofFnung Japan's fur die Schif- 

 fahrt und den Seehandel aller Nationen" (Bonn, 

 1854, with map), and this work was the same year 

 published in Dutch at Bommel. 



Soon after he paid a second visit to Japan. So 

 changed, however, was the condition afi'airs that he 

 very naturally failed to inspire the same romantic 

 interest amongst the people that he did on his first 

 visit. He returned to Europe with a new collection 

 of objects bearing upon the physical and social pecu- 

 liarities of Japan. On his arrival in Holland, having 

 attempted in vain to induce the Government to 

 annex the second to his first collection, he deter- 

 mined to travel and offer it to some other musuera, 

 whether at Wurzburg or elsewhere. At last he 

 succeeded ; the King of Bavaria bought the whole 

 collection for the Museum at Munich, and this pur- 

 chase is now awaiting the confirmation of the 

 Bavarian Chambers. He was engaged in classify- 

 ing and arranging this Museum when death over- 

 took him from poisoning of the blood (fever?). 



In the previous year numerous articles from his 

 pen on the subject of Japan were published in the 

 Augsburg "Allgemeine Zeitung." 



About the year 1850 Von Siebold made great 

 efi"orts to improve the science of horticulture in 

 Europe, and to import new plants, especially from 

 Asia. His designs also for the laying out of gardens 

 serve to show that mere science was not the sole 

 incentive to exertion on the part of the Professor. 

 It is probably however that this enterprise met with 

 no great success ; indeed everything that was not ex- 

 clusively identified with science, was more or less a 

 failure with him. One ot the greatest services ren- 

 dered by Von Seibold to horticulture was the laying- 

 out of his nursey ground in the immediate vicinity 

 of Leyden — at Leiderdorp — for the purpose of pro- 

 pagating and bringing into vogue plants and shrubs 

 as they were imported direct from their native soil. 

 This garden, better known as the "Jardin d' Accli- 

 matation du Japon et de la Chine," contained about 

 5 acres of ground, and was laid out in the year 1843. 

 Since that date the following plants and trees have 

 been introduced, either by Von Siebold himself or 

 by his intervention : — 



25 kinds of Maple (A.cer), of which only three were known in 

 commerce. 



4 kinds of Aralia. 



20 kinds of Aucuba (amongst them some with male blossoms). 

 4 kinds of Bambusa. 



4 kinds of Cerasus (not yet in commerce). 



4 kinds bf Citrus (not yet in commerce). 



12 kinds ol Clematis. 



6 kinds of Deutzia. 



12 kinds of Diervilla. 



12 kinds of Weigela. 



15 kinds ofEuonymus. 



12 kinds of Hydrangea (of which six are not yet known in com- 

 merce. 



6 kinds of Malus. 



6 kinds of Osmanthus. 



4 kinds of Persica. 



8 kinds of Pinus. 



12 kinds of Quercus (evergreen). 



2 kinds of Spiraea. 



6 kinds of Viburnum. 



4 kinds of Glycine sinensis. 



Besides the above, there are in Von Siebold's 

 garden select specimens of Japanese or Chinese Con- 

 ifers, Pines, Lilies, Camellias, and a host of variega- 

 ted plants. In regard to many of these, we refer 

 to the "Catalogue raisonne et Prix Courant des 

 Planteset Graines du Japon et de la Chine" for the 

 year 1863, now before us. 



We are in a position to state that the Acclimati- 

 sation Garden of Von Siebold will be preserved, 

 and the cultivation of it continued for the original 

 purpose, and objects of its founder. — Gardeners 

 Chronicle. 



Double-flowering Zonale Geraniums. — The 

 varieties of Pelargoniums of the inquinans and zonal 

 sections — we beg pardon of those of our friends who 

 will think the word Geranium so much better for 

 these races, though it isn't true — these Pelargoni- 

 ums, we saj'', possess a new source of interest, now 

 that it has been found that they will yield us good 

 double flowers. So it is argued by M. Emile Chate 

 in a recent number of L' Horticulteur Francais, from 

 which we glean some of the annexed particulars. 



The first Pelargoniums with perfectly double flow- 

 ers were raised, he observes, in 1859, by M. Martial 

 de Chanflourd, of Clermont Ferrand, a distinguish- 

 ed amateur, after whom it is named, and who had 

 already,in 1855, obtained the variety known under the 

 the name of Auguste Ferrier. This latter variety had 

 remained for nearly ten years in the garden in Cler- 

 mont without its merit being appreciated. In Au- 

 guste Ferrier, however, the doubling is not so fully 

 developed as in Martial de Chanflourd, but the 

 coloring is more brilliant ; and as it produces good 

 seeds, it has become the parent of numerous varie- 

 ties, of which Martial de Chanflourd is one. The 

 Triomphe de Gergovia, supposed to be a new acquisi- 

 tion, proved to be nothing more than Auguste Fer- 

 rier, with the name altered. 



