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EXTRACTS—FLORICULTUXE. 
Grafting the Walnut-Tree. —Suffer the buds of both Grafts and Stocks 
to unfold and grow during a week or ten days, then destroy the young shoots 
and foliage. Graft about the middle of May. Attach the grafts to the young 
(annual) wood of the stocks, placing them so as to stand astride the stocks, one 
division being introduced between the bark and the wood, or with both divisions 
fitted to the wood or bark in the ordinary way, both modes being equally suc¬ 
cessful. In each of these methods, it is advantageous to pare away almost the 
wood of both the divisions of the grafts; and therefore the wide dimensions of 
the medulla in the young shoots of the Walnut-tree do not present any incon¬ 
venience to the grafter .—London Hort. Soc. Trans. 
FLORICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE 
New and Rare Plants, Figured in the Botauicals for May. 
CLASS I.—DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OR EXOGENES. 
LOASEJE. 
Loa'sa a'lba. —White-flowered Loasa.—An annual with red and white flow¬ 
ers ; introduced last year from Chili, where seeds were collected by Mr. Hugh 
Cuming. It is of easy culture, thriving in the open border, and continuing to 
send forth its showy blossoms for several months in succession. It is increased 
by seeds.— Br. FI. Gard. 
cornEj®. —Dogwood Tribe. 
Benth'amia fragi/fera. —Strawberry-fruited Benthamia. This valuable 
addition to our collection of hardy shrubs was raised in 1825, in the garden of 
John Hearle Tremayne, Esq. at Heligan, Cornwall, from seeds received from his 
relation Sir Anthony Buffer, during his residence in the East Indies. It is a 
very handsome evergreen shrub, bearing cream-coloured flowers in great profu¬ 
sion during the summer, and producing an abundance of large, globular, red¬ 
dish fruit in the autumn. The fruit, wdien ripe, has considerable resemblance to 
the mulberry, but exceeds it considerably in size; the flesh is yellowish white, 
rather insipid, but not unpleasant, although a little bitter to the taste. Culture. 
—The plant seems to flourish extremely well in common garden soil, and may 
be increased with facility either by seeds or layers.— Bot. Reg. 
anacardi'ace^e. —The Cashew Tribe. 
Duvaua -latifolia. —Broad-leaved Duvaua. A small shrub, native of Chili, 
w'here it seems to be very common, and called Huingan. The flowers are small, 
and of a yellowush green colour. A pretty phenomenon is exhibited by the 
leaves when thrown into water: after lying a short time, they will be found to 
start and jump as if they were alive, while at the instant of each start a jet of 
oily matter is discharged into the water. This circumstance appears to be owing 
to some peculiar irritability of the pai’enchyma of the leaves, w'hich, when acted 
upon by water, causes the turpentine-sacs, that abound in the leaves, to empty 
themselves with violence; and the movements of the leaves may be ascribed to 
the recoil produced by the discharge. From the fruit of this or a nearly allied 
species, we are informed by Dr. Gillies, that the Pehuenco Indians prepare by 
fermentation an intoxicating liquor. Culture.—It is about as hardy as a myrtle, 
