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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ November, 
cultivating tlie Kumquat in England. If we wish to have it in high health and 
vigour, we must keep it cold and rather dry in winter. During its season of 
growth in summer it ought to have a liberal supply of water, and a temperature 
of from 80° to 100°, and this heat should be kept well up even in autumn, in 
order that the young wood may be well ripened. If properly cultivated, so as 
to be kept in high health, and induced to bear its annual crop of shining little 
oranges, it would make an admirable plant for table-decoration, and would remain 
covered with its fruit for several months. Graft on Limonia trifoliata ; do not 
graft on a more tender plant. It does best when planted in a border, but the 
Chinese can manage it in pots, and we may do so as well.” 
The tree at Knypersley, which is trained against the greenhouse wall, is now 
about 15 ft. high, and the spread of the branches nearly the same. Mr. Sherratt 
finds that it does not do well if kept in a pot, and, moreover, that it will not 
graft upon the common Orange—the latter a pretty sure indication of its specific 
distinctness. The plant comes into bloom soon after midsummer, and the fruit 
begins to ripen shortly before Christmas, and constitutes a beautiful ornament, if 
nothing besides, all through the spring, and on into the summer.—T. M. 
VIBURNUM PLICATUM. 
PERCEIVE that Mr. Earley, at p. 205, mentions with commendation the 
Viburnum plicatum ; but he has not said so much in its favour as it really 
f deserves. I had it some years ago from Mr. Veitch, and am therefore able 
to speak of it as one of the most useful and ornamental of plants, either for 
shrubbery borders, or for growing against a wall. In the latter case, it should 
be allowed to ramble about amongst the other tenants of the wall in a desultory 
manner, not formally trained ; and in the flowering season it will be a complete 
mass of flowers, first of a very pale, yellowish green, but changing eventually to large 
balls of the purest white, and lasting comparatively a long time. When planted 
in the open border, it must be occasionally pinched back during the growing 
season, to reduce it to a compact shape. Under these conditions, it flowers most 
profusely and is a very striking object indeed. My experience of V. macro~ 
cephalum is, that it has a tendency to flower too early for the climate, but when it 
escapes spring frosts, it bears indeed a grand mass of flowers, the heads being as 
large as the largest Hydrangeas.— John Cox, Redleaf, 
ROBIN IA PSEUD-ACACIA PYRAMID ALIS. 
E have to thank Messrs. Transon Brothers, of Orleans, for the photograph 
of the oldest existing tree of this remarkably ornamental variety, from 
which the accompanying woodcut has been prepared. The figure was 
taken in winter, when the tree was devoid of foliage, in order the better 
to show the unmistakably fastigiate habit which it possesses, and which renders 
it a most desirable tree for the planter, who is desirous of Working out picturesq^ue 
