474 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Hydrangea Sargentiana (Bot. Mag. tab. 8447).— China. Family 



Saxifragaceae, tribe Hydrangeae. Shrub, 6-7 feet high. Leaves 



6-12 inches long. Corymb, dense-flowered, 5-6 \ inches across ; 



fertile flowers, before opening, pale violet ; barren flowers, inch 

 across, white. — G. H. 



Hypericum aureum {Bot. Mag. tab. 8498).— S.-E. United States. 

 Family Hypericaceae, tribe Hypericeae. Under-shrub, 2-4 feet high. 

 Leaves oblong, 1J-3 inches long. Cymes three-flowered. Flowers 

 1 inch across, yellow. — G. H. 



Hypericum Kalmianum (Bot. Mag. tab. 8491). — N. America. 

 Family Hypericaceae. Shrub, 1-2 feet high. Leaves 2 inches 

 long. Flowers J inch across. — G. H. 



Impatiens Herzogii. By S. Mottet {Rev. Hort. Jan. 1, 1913 ; 

 pp. 11-12 ; 1 illustration and coloured plate). — The former repre- 

 sents a handsome plant about 2§ feet high, the latter a truss of six 

 salmon-red flowers, individually about 2 inches in diameter. Highly 

 recommended. — C. T. D. 



Indian Corn Seed in West Virginia, Condition of, and How 

 to Test it (U.S.A. Exp. Stn., West Virg., Circ. 5 ; April 1912 ; plate). 

 — The spring in which this circular appeared followed after a wet 

 October and a sharp early frost, and the writer impresses upon farmers 

 that if they want to give themselves any chance of securing a good 

 crop of Indian corn it is imperatively necessary to test the ears of 

 corn that are to be used for seed. He gives directions for this testing 

 and declares that, as it does not require more than 15 good ears of 

 corn to plant an acre of ground, the average West Virginian farmer 

 can test all the seed he will want in a single evening. — M. L. H. 



Indian Corn, Native Ssel By E. G. Montgomery (U.S.A. 

 Exp. Stn., Nebraska, Bull. 126; March 1912 ; plates). — The writer 

 states that during the past ten years there has been a general 

 demand for information regarding the relative values of different 

 varieties of corn, of various types of ear, and of seed from different 

 regions. The experience of farmers has been that seed corn, brought 

 from one region to another, will often not give good results the first 

 year in the new locality, though sometimes it does excellently after 

 a few years, or when it is " adapted." It is easy to understand that 

 in an immense country like the United States, where there is to be 

 found almost every variety of climate and soil, the same type or strain 

 of seed could not possibly be the one best suited to each of these sets 

 of widely differing surroundings. This bulletin gives the results of 

 some experiments in acclimatizing Indian corn seed procured from 

 other parts of the Northern States at the experiment station in 

 Nebraska. 



The writer concludes that it will be safer for Western growers to 

 try to improve strains of their native seed rather than to import 

 even from the Eastern part of their own State. — M. L. H. 



