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NOTICES OF BOTANICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
Of Gooseberries we do not know any better than the Warrington ; but 
as there are a few others which come in about the same time, we may 
just name them : — Brundet’s Atlas, Farmer’s Roaring Lion, Mathew’s 
Alexander, Tillotson’s Seedling, Pitmaston Green Gage, and Walnut 
Green. 
The Muscat of Alexandria grape is altogether unfit for a greenhouse; 
nor can any treatment it may have in such a place ever bring it 
to perfection ; because the high temperature it requires at the time the 
plants are housed would ruin the latter. The other musk flavoured 
grapes which would have a better chance of ripening in the greenhouse, 
are the White, Black, and Grizzly Frogntiniacs, or Frontinans as they 
are now called. The attendance required by grape vines depends on 
the manner they are pruned and trained: but they certainly need 
looking over twice in the week. The expense of fuel it is impossible 
to estimate ; because that depends on the state of the weather, and the 
kind of fuel employed. Say half a bushel of coals per diem. — Ed. 
NOTICES OF BOTANICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
Edwards’s Botanical Register, continued by Dr. Bindley. 
The April number contains :—- 
1. Angrcecum caudatum. Long-tailed Angraecum. A most re¬ 
markable new species imported from Sierra Leone by Messrs. Loddiges. 
Like other orchidece , the flowers are of a remarkable shape, and having 
spurs nine inches long. The plant is difficult of culture, and is yet 
very rare in the country. 
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2. Kennedia Stirlingi. Sir James Stirling’s Kennedy. A grace¬ 
ful green-house trailing plant, native of the Swan River. The leaves 
are broad and pale green, fringed with weak hairs. The flowers are 
scarlet, blooming in pairs, and appear in April. 
3. Cratcegus microcarpa. Small fruited Thorn. It is a native of 
North America, and perfectly hardy. Its value as an ornamental 
plant consists in the neatness of its foliage and beauty of its scarlet 
fruit. As the genus Cratcegus has been but little noticed by botanists, 
Dr. Bindley announces that he intends figuring the whole of them 
(*. e. foliage and fruit) in the future numbers of the Botanical Register, 
as a genus of plants deserving of more notice than has hitherto been 
bestowed on them. 
4. Cratcegus heterophylla. Various-leaved Hawthorn. This is 
another ornamental thorn which is well worthy a place in every 
collection ; it is an abundant flowerer, and, like its congeners, bears a 
profusion of scarlet haws in the autumn. 
