FEE.IFUMEI!) SWANKS E®©, 
X the description of Gladiolus ramosus, No. 1 187, 
we had occasion to make some remarks on the 
hybridisation of flowers, and the advantages ob- 
tainable thereby ; here we present our readers 
with the result of the same means, employed in the improvement 
of fruit; a fact which will make its way more readily to the 
regard of some cultivators than through the medium of the most 
