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GARDEN GOSSIP. 
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MM. Croux and Sons, nurserymen, of Sceaux, is described. These cultivators 
have trained a number of plants of Ribes pcilmatum to a single stem, and budded 
this as a stock with Gooseberries and Currants of various colours and forms. The result 
proves to bo both curious and ornamental. 
- 2The Lucombe Oak, Quercus Cerris subperennis , deserves to be more 
frequently planted, for after the cold of last December its foliage looks as cheerful 
as at the beginning of autumn. The leaves are of a bright glossy green, and 
otherwise like the ordinary Q. Cerris, though perhaps a trifle thicker. There is a fine 
specimen of it at Kew, in the “ Sion Vista,” just within the Botanic Garden. 
- 2The Helianthus globosus fistu- 
losus is a new double Sunflower, whose 
chief peculiarity consists in the globose 
form and large size of its flower-heads, which 
are sometimes said to measure a foot in 
diameter. They are of a bright saffron- 
colour, freely produced, and well elevated 
above the leaves. We have to thank Messrs. 
Sutton and Sons, of Reading, for the use of 
the annexed woodcut. 
— CORDEROY, of Didcot, 
has recently sent to the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle some specimens of Mistleto 
parasitic on itself. The young seedlings have 
attached themselves to the parent branches 
just in tlio same way that they usually do to 
branches of the Lime, or any other tree. Air. 
Corderoy mentions also a variegated form, 
produced as a sport, and alludes to other 
variations in habit. 
- Amongst the specimens of 
IVellingtonia gigantea growing near the 
great conservatory at Chatsworth, is one Helianthus globosus fistulosus. 
which might well bear the name of pendula. We have noticed it on different occasions as 
being very distinct. It is paler in colour than the other Wellingtonias of the ordinary form, 
which grow near to it, and has all the smaller spray most gracefully drooping. The variety 
appears to be well worth perpetuating, if, as would probably be tho case, plants from cuttings 
would assume the same habit. 
- ^iie Effect of Transplantation in averting Damage by Frost has been 
well illustrated by a case which occurred at Feltliam, where a quarter of an 
acre of ground was sown last spring with scarlet Queen Stock, with the intention 
that tho plants, duly thinned, should remain to flower. The thinnings were planted out 
during the summer upon the ground close by, and grew into strong plants, though not so 
large as those that remained in the seed-bed. Over three-fourths of the untransplanted ones 
are now entirely killed, whilst of those transplanted scarcely one is injured. 
- £n Paris, different kinds of Leaves are extensively used for Garnishing 
Purposes. They consist of Ferns, Chestnuts, Lilacs, Maples, Nuts, Elms, Poplars, 
and especially of the Vine, and are used for decorative purposes, garnishing 
dishes, and tho like. Largo quantities of Bramble-loaves are also used, in spito of their 
prickles, during the winter season, when they are still to be found in the woods noar Paris. 
The leaves are collected into little packots, slightly pressed, and sold by hundreds of thousands 
in tho markets. 
