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univittata. The beauty of the foh'age is enhanced by cutting off the 

 flower stems as soon as they appear, Funkias should not be removed 

 frequently.— 5. E. W. 



Furcraea, Observations on. By William Trelease (Ann. Jard. 

 Bot. Buit. 3rd supp. 2nd pt. 1910, pp. 905-916; 14 plates).— In this 

 paper the monocotyledonous genus Furcraea is described in considerable 

 detail. Its external morphology and internal structure are contrasted 

 with those of the nearly allied genus Agave. The fourteen beautiful 

 plates form a conspicuous feature in this memoir. — R. B. 



Gamogryne pulchra {Bot. Mag. tab. 8330).— Nat. ord. Aroideae; 

 tribe Philodendreae. Malaya. Herb, perennial; leaves sub-erect, 

 8 inches long, blade tapering below and lanceolate, included in purple 

 stipules below ; spathe horizontal, bright crimson, If inch long, f inch 

 broad, on a stalk 6 inches long. — G. H. 



Gardening", Books on, Some Old Eng-lish Translated from 

 French. By M. 0. Harman Payne (Jour. Soc. Nut. Hort. Fr. 

 ser. iv. vol. xi. p. 438 ; July 1910). — The writer of this note has been 

 at some pains to hunt up the originals of several of the English herbals 

 and books on gardening, published in this country in the seventeenth and 

 eighteenth centuries, which were takeh from the French with or without 

 acknowledgments. In some cases the English book was a bare trans- 

 lation, in some was adapted from the French, and in some was com- 

 piled from one or two French works. Mr. Payne gives the full name 

 and date of each of these English books and that of the French original 

 whenever he has been able to trace it. — M. L. H. 



Gardening- in the History of Mankind, The Part Played by. 



By E. Hahn (Gartenflora, vol. lix. pp. 346-353). 



Garden Pests. By 0. Cordel [Gartenflora, vol. lix. pt. ii. pp. 43- 

 46). — Washing apple-trees twice a week with a powerful jet of water, 

 from the end of May to July, removes the eggs of the codling moth 

 (Carpocapsa pomonella), but is ineffectual in the case of the apple 

 sawfly (Hoplocampa testudinea). The plum sawliy (H. fulvicornis) 

 and the gooseberry sawfly can be destroyed by spraying with lime- 

 water or milk of lime as soon as the blossom falls. — S. E. W. 



Gardens and Plantations in German Tropical Lands. By 



A. E. Elbeck {Oester. Gart. Zeit. vol. v. pt. vii. pp. 266-271).— In 

 East Africa the most important cultivated crop is Egyptian cotton; 

 next come hemp from Agave filifera, Sansevieria guineensis and 

 S. zeylanica; coconuts; indiarubber, cocoa, and coffee in small 

 quantities. Bananas and other varieties of fruit are also grown. In 

 South-West Africa the chief products are maize, wheat, tobacco, cotton, 

 indigo, grapes, oranges, figs, and other fruit. In Togo coconuts, 

 sisal hemp, cocoa, tobacco are cultivated with success. In German 

 Cameroon the chief industry is in cotton, indiarubber, grain, kola, nnd 



