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But even in Cremation it is not all gold that glitters, for withered hags suspected of witch¬ 
craft were burnt alive, and were of course cremated. We read of-the bodies of Saul and his 
sons being buried, as well as burnt. The subject is, indeed, so vast that volumes might bo 
filled with funereal obsequies and sepulchral solemnities, not to name the fate reserved for 
this fair Earth of ours, 
“when at that dreadful turn, 
The swarm shall issue, and the hive shall burn.” 
The number of funerals at one cemetery here may be twenty or thirty a day, but were that 
number of bodies to be roasted, or rather burnt to cinders, the air would, indeed, want some 
of the rain Mr. F. W. B. refers to, to wash out its impurities. People could not live in 
such a neighbourhood, and the leeway of such a smoke would carry death in its track. The 
cutting vapour of the chemical works at St. Helen’s and other places would be sweet when 
compared with the fumes of Cremation, so that we should pray that the blessed Earth might 
hide the horrid picture from our sight.— Alex. Forsytii, Salford. 
%* This question may after all some day affect horticulture more than Mr. Forsyth 
seems to imagine, when public opinion shall have been educated to look to the gardener or 
the nurseryman, rather than to the undertaker, to furnish from nature’s stores the trappings 
of sepulture. 
EUPHORBIA FULGENS, alias JACQUINLEFLORA. 
QjfHE lovely representative of tlie natural order Euphorbiacecv , commonly 
known as Euphorbia jacquinicefiora , but which, I presume, is more rightly 
named Euphorbia fulgens , is well known for its somewhat small-sized, deep 
scarlet, circular flowers, the size of which is, however, amply compensated by 
their brilliancy. The dense wreaths in which they are produced when well grown, 
are exceedingly beautiful. There may be one fact in regard to this lovely plant that 
is not so well known as its beauty, and it is to this (and to this only at the present 
time, though I hold a secret anent its culture that is worth one’s birth-right) 
that I am anxious to draw the attention of the reader. This plant will with¬ 
stand any degree of cold, down to 40°, or indeed 36° when in full bloom, and will 
show no symptoms of injury—that is, as regards the brightness of the blooms. 
If taken into a cool greenhouse, when once the flowers are opened, or only three- 
parts expanded, they open perfectly, and last thus for an incredible length of 
time in full beauty; whereas, as is well known, they soon go off in heat. This 
plant may also be stood out of doors during the whole summer, and will yet 
bloom freely in autumn.— William Earley, Valentines. ' 
NEW JAPANESE EVERGREEN OAKS. 
N the course of the last summer we received from Messrs. Ottolander and 
Son, of Boskoop, a series of leaves of new Evergreen Japanese Oaks which 
had been introduced to Europe by Siebold, and which were cultivated by 
V them. Of these Oaks, which are especially valuable as being of orna¬ 
mental character and presumably hardy in this country, some at least of them 
having proved to be so at Combe Wood, in Surrey, we now introduce outline 
figures, accompanied by Messrs. Ottolander’s descriptions. 
Quercus glauca, of Tliunberg.—This species is of bushy habit, with slightly 
hairy branches. The leaves are from 3 to G in. long, 2 in. wide, ovate-lanceolate 
acuminate, serrated near the point, glabrescent above, and clothed with silky down 
beneath. Of this Siebold introduced several varieties, as Q. glauca AwoJcasi 
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