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equally sure to prove single. This is positive nonsense ; for if a 
tap-rooted plant be taken and placed in rich soil and properly 
attended, while one with the divided fibrous root be planted in 
poor soil, in nine cases out of ten it will be found the first is 
double and the other not so; it is the quality of the earth that 
determines it chiefly, for of thirty plants taken promiscuously 
and put out in strong rich soil, this season, twenty-seven proved 
double, and from the same number of the same sort, planted in a 
hot hungry soil, only nine were double. The subsequent manage¬ 
ment of the plants will have to be determined by the period at 
which they are desired to bloom, those required m March and 
April must be covered with lights and carefully protected at night, 
while those for May will only need to be guarded from the se¬ 
verities of the season ; water must be given to both in very 
moderate quantities. 
Bermondsey. 
J. T. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
CAPRiFOLlACEiE.— Pentandria Trigynia. 
Viburnum macrocephalum (Fortune). This beautiful plant 
exists in the garden of the Horticultural Society, where it has 
flowered, having been received in June, 1844, from Mr. Fortune, 
who found it in Chusan and in Shanghae. In the 4 Journal of the 
Horticultural Society’ it is described as “ a deciduous bush, 
covered all over with coarse, starry, scurfy hairs. The leaves are 
about three inches long, very exactly ovate, very blunt, on short 
stalks, slightly toothed, quite flat, and not unlike those of an 
apple. The flowers grow in large, compound cymes, which, in 
the neuter state (that in the garden), are as much as eight inches 
in diameter, not, however, globose, like those of a Gueldres rose, 
but rather pyramidal. Each flower is full 1J inches in diameter, 
snow-white.” Mr. Fortune speaks of it thus : 
“ This noble species was also found in the gardens of the rich 
in the north of China, and will probably prove perfectly hardy 
in England. There is a tree of it in a garden in the island of 
Chusan, at least twenty feet high, which, in the month of May 
every year, is covered with its snow-white blossoms.” 
