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surface of each. The male catkins are excessively numerous, and discharge 
copiously a beautiful yellow pollen. The cones are of a deep shining brown, very 
firmly attached by means of a woody peduncle, and composed of about six more 
or less quadrangular scales, each bearing about its centre, or more frequently 
towards the tip, a rounded blunt protuberance which is sometimes more elongated 
and attenuated. 
This species of Cypress, M. Carriere notes, is remarkable for the apple-like 
scent which it gives off, so that the branches cut and put into water in an apart¬ 
ment purify the air in it. In a hygienic point of view, it would be a good thing 
to place some of it in apartments, especially in those which are little ventilated, 
or the air of which is more or less tainted by the presence of unhealthy matters. 
When one rubs the branches, especially the younger and more herbaceous ones, 
this odour remains on the hands long after. Our figure is from the Revue 
Horticole. —T. Moore. 
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the nurseries of M. Scipion-Cochet, at Suisnes, is a Chestnut-tree of unusual 
aspect, presenting characters intermediate between those of the common 
? Horse Chestnut {jEscuIus Hippocastanum) and the Red Horse Chestnut (^. 
rubicunda)^ but so mixed up that it is difficult to say to which of these the 
tree is most nearly related. M. Andre consequently, in the Revue Horticole, 
proposes to call it jiE. intermedia. The tree is of medium size, and of erect, 
pyramidal form, like the Horse Chestnut, but has shorter wood. The leaves are 
like those of the Red Chestnut, with five oval-cuneiform, acuminate, coarsely 
dentate lobes, having sharp teeth. The flowers form a compact irregular thyrse, 
the calyx being rose and green, the petals yellowish white, the two upper ones 
spotted with yellow at the base, passing to salmony rose, and the stamens having 
bearded rosy filaments. The capsules are sometimes quite smooth, sometimes, 
and more frequently, bristling with projecting points. 
This curious tree came from a seed of the Red Chestnut, sown about 1843. 
As it is well known that the seedlings of this tree are very variable, M. Andre 
inquires whether in this we can trace the result of a fertilisation with the 
widely spread White Chestnut, or the first stages of a reversion from the Red 
Chestnut to the Horse Chestnut, and hints that his opinions as to the limits of 
species have undergone change since he has seen in the nurseries of the Paris 
Museum some trees of the White Walnut {Juglans regia) give birth to specimens 
almost identical with the American Walnut (Juglans nigra). —T. M. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
TARTLING have been the advances made during the last few years, both 
in the quality and the culture of the Cyclamen as a Decorative Plant., and 
as one of the most successful pioneers of progress the name of Mr. H. 
Little, of Cambridge Park, Twickenham, may be mentioned. Amazing 
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