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noteworthy results in ornamental foliage. Lcovatera arborea crossed with 

 Abutilon Tliompsoni gave yellow foliage to the first-named. Noteworthy 

 results also followed the crossing of A. TJiomj^soiii and Malva capensc, 

 Greke.— C. E. S. 



Manettia bicolor (Buhiacece), Brazil {Bot. Mag. tab. 7776). — 

 This is a well-known stove climber, first imported by Mr. J. Veitch, sen., 

 of Exeter, sixty years ago. It is never out of flower at Kew. It is a 

 slender climber with ovate, pointed leaves 2 in. long. The flowers are 

 tetramerous, with refiexed sepals and a tubular corolla, inflated at the 

 base, 1 in. long, covered with crimson hairs from the base to the golden 

 limb.— (/. H. 



Manures, Nitrogenous (Ann. .4^/. p. G5 ; 25/2/1901).— Experi- 

 ments on the cultivation of leguminous plants, particularly in the 

 application of nitrogenous manure. — C. H. H. 



Manuring" Fruit Trees. By A. Petts (Joum. Hort. 2735, p. 170 ; 

 28/2/1901). — These articles deal with the value of certain manures for 

 supplying nitrogen to the soil, also with the times when it should be 

 applied, and when not. Also of phosphorus and the particular manures 

 conveying it ; of potash ; and of liquid manures. — JV. W. 



Market Gardeners' Compensation. Anon {Gard. Mag. 2182, 

 p. 315 ; 25/5/1901). — Comment upon two recent cases brought before 

 the Law Courts in connection with the leases of market garden tenants, 

 chiefly with regard to compensation for " improvements,'-' and the 

 removal of glasshouses and other fixtures, as well as the felling and 

 removing of orchard trees. — W. G. 



Masdevallia deorsum {OrchzdecB), New Grenada (Bot. Mag. 

 tab. 776G). — It has the singular habit of being pendulous, and bears 

 yellow flowers, spotted and striped with crimson, being 6 in. from apex 

 to apex of the perianth tips. — 6-. H. 



Melilotus, Monograph of the Genus. By 0. E. Schulz (Eugi. 



Bot. Jahrb. xxix. pp. 660-735, tt. vi.-viii. ; 12/2 1901).— An historical and 

 morphological account of the genus, followed by a systematic arrange- 

 ment, with full descriptions of the species, of which the author recognises 

 twenty-two, including several novelties. — A. B. B. 



Mesembryanthemum ealamiforme (Eicoidece), the Karroo, S. 



Africa {Bot. Mag. tab. 7775). — Leaves are cylindrical, 2 to 3 in. long, in. 

 in diameter ; flowers 2| in. diameter, with very narrow innumerable petals, 

 white with pink tips. — G. H. 



Mignonette in Pots. By W. P. {Gard. Chmu. p. 183 ; 23/3/1901). 

 — Recommended and described as grown in the umbrella method." 



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