64 
THE ELOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ March, 
soon tell upon the plant, and there will be no “ sticks,” but tender stalks, high- 
flavoured and hard-hearted. Celery ought to be judged by su9h points as these, 
and not by length and thickness, as is too often done at exhibitions.— Alex. 
Forsyth, Salford. 
IDESIA POLYCAKPA. 
HIS fine hardy plant comes from Japan, and appears to have been 
J) distributed from the Botanic Garden of St. Petersburg. It was exhibited 
f in 1867 at the Paris Exhibition, by M. Linden, as a fruit-tree from Japan, 
and was afterwards put into commerce under the names of Polycarpa 
Maximowiczii and Flacourtia japonica. The generic name Idesia was given 
to it by Maximowicz, and is now adopted by all botanists. Our figure, origin¬ 
ally published in the Pevue Horticole (1872, 174), is drawn from a specimen 
bearing only ripe fruits, sent by Maximowicz to the Paris Museum, and which was 
described as coming from a cultivated tree, 40 ft. high, growing on the island of 
Niphon, in the neighbourhood of Mt. Fusi, while other specimens, probably 
wild, bearing only male flowers, were from the forests of Kinosau, in the island of 
Kiusiu. Whether or not it is likely to become a useful fruit-bearing tree may 
be questioned, but there can be no doubt it is a fine ornamental plant, and 
