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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ November., 
- M C 0 EEESP 0 NDENT,“ A. 0.,” writing of Carnations and Picotees, remarks: 
“ In the October number of the Floeist you say, ‘ We have come now to founda¬ 
tion-work, and on its well or ill-doing will mainly rest success or failure for 
another year.’ Should yon not have said this of the work of layering ? I have had woful 
experience that this is foundation-worh in my collection, for having engagements which pre¬ 
vented a personal attention to this important operation, I engaged the assistance of two 
supposed-to-be experienced propagators, and now that I come to remove my stock, to pot up 
for winter, I find, so ill was the operation performed, that three-fourths of the layers are 
without root. What must I do?” Pot the old stock in the smallest-sized pot the layers can 
be got down in, and re-layer. The plants will probably be rooted by the spring. I am obliged 
by my friend’s criticism and sorry for his misfortune.—^E. S. D. 
- ©NE of the most interesting exhibits at the Manchester summer show 
was a Group of Sarracenias^ from the garden of J. Fildes, Esq., of Chorlton- 
cum-Hardy. They were small plants, but remarkably well coloured. The group 
consisted of Sarracenia psittacina, of a bright veiny red, and quite covering with its pitchers 
the top of the pot and soil in Avhich it was growing; *S. variolaris, with about twelve 
pitchers; S.flava maxima, with seven pitchers, remarkable for their large red-veined lid; and 
a new variety of S. flava, imported with it, but much superior to maxima, the pitchers being 
larger, more freely veined with red, and having a broader and rounder lid, the tubular por¬ 
tion also being more conspicuously veined; the plant bore three ample pitchers. 
- ®HE Thamnocalamus P'alconeri,, the plant generally known in gardens 
as Arundinaria falcata^ has flowered and fruited in Europe very generally this 
year, and, contrary to expectation, has not in all cases died down. At Boston, 
U.S., according to Professor Sargent, it has also borne its flowers and fruits, and then died 
down, the plant appearing to be entirely exhausted, and to have only enough remaining 
strength to throw up some weak shoots a few inches high. 
- 0NE of the Fungus delicacies at the recent Woolhope Club dinner is 
described as Bechamel de Boletus edulis,, and was said to be highly successful. It 
is best made in the following manner, says Dr. Bull:—Peel the edible Boletus, 
remove the pores, and cut the whole plant into half-inch slices, the thick stem as well as the cap; 
stew in thin white sauce for ten minutes, with a little pepper and salt, and a sprinkle of fine 
herbs, and, to those who like it, a little shallot is an excellent addition. This is a dish for 
the grand masters of fungus-eating, reminding one of Juvenal’s advice,—“ Vilibus ancipites 
fungi ponentur amicis, Boletus domino ”—“ Place the doubtful fungi before your poor relations, 
bnt reserve the Boletus for the master.” 
- JfoE quickly Repairing Old Fences or making new ones, Messrs. Ewing 
and Co. strongly recommend i]ie Myi'ohella or Cherry Plum [_Prunus Myrohalana~\,, 
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which, they say, “ grows rapidly on the poorest soils where the Whitethorn does 
not succeed, produces long sharp thorns or spines, bears clipping well, and soon forms thick 
stout branches, making the hedge as strong as a wall, and when of siifificient height, such as 
will tnrn either man or cattle. It is highly ornamental, being the earliest of all spring- 
flowering trees, especially when allowmd to grow without clipping.” 
- ^HE Sanitary Record states that Professor Schiff, of Florence, has 
demonstrated that the non-edible or Poisonous Mushrooms have a common poison, 
called muscarine, and that its effects are counteracted either by atropine or daturine. 
Italian apothecaries, it is further stated, now keep these alkaloids in the rural districts where 
the consumption of the non-edible fungi is apt to occur. 
- ^EOFESSOE Moeeen lias recently issued a fourth edition of his very 
.useful Correspondence Botanique,^ which, we observe, has undergone correction. 
This is the only tolerably complete accessible list of the botanists and botanico- 
horticulturists, amateur, professional, and official, known in the civilised world. 
