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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Juke 8, 1858. 
Forming a thin, even, velvety-black stratum, which even 
under a lens appears but slightly bristly. Mycelium moni- 
liform, the articulations containing a single nucleus.* Peridia 
rather short, often obtuse, but sometimes lageniform and acu¬ 
minate, sparingly forked, sometimes fringed (fig. 4). Asci broad, 
obtuse. Sporidia oblong, 
very slightly curved, or ob¬ 
lique, oblong, triseptate, with 
one or two longitudinal septa 
constricted at the articula¬ 
tions. Occasionally the spo¬ 
ridia are obovate. This is 
distinguished from the fol¬ 
lowing species by its less 
elongated peridia, in con¬ 
sequence of which the stra¬ 
tum is velvety, and not dis¬ 
tinctly bristly to the naked 
eye. 
Desm. Setosum; peridiis 
Fig. 4. Capnocliiim salicinum, 
Mont. Asci with immature spo¬ 
ridia, and mature sporidia, from 
the absorbed asci, magnified 380 
diameters. From a sketch by Dr. 
Montagne. 
4. C. elongatum , Berk, and 
elongatis acumiuatis utplurimum simplicibus tlmbriatisque 
sporidiis 2-3 septatis articulis demum constrictis quandoque 
longitudinaliter divisis. “ Curt.” No. 1634. 
On Populus angulata. Santee River, South Carolina. H. 
W. Ravenel, Esq. (Fig. 5.) pv 
Forming a scattered setose black stratum ; mycelium monili- 
form.. Peridia very much elongated, acuminate, generally 
simple ; orifice mostly fimbriated. Sporidia at first oblong bi- 
triseptate, at length broader, with the articulations constricted, 
and the central one longitudinally septate. Intermediate 
between the foregoing species and that which follows, agreeing 
with the former in its more simple peridia, with the latter in 
its setose stratum. 
(To be continued .) 
big. 5. Capnodium elongatum, B. and D., with young and mature sporidia, 
more or less highly magnified. From a sketch by Mr. Broome. 
Mr. Broome has observed two curious appearances in the filaments. In 
one case a few filaments were subulate with a central cavity, two-thirds of 
v mch was filled with short moniliform endochromes; in the other, the 
outer coat was very delicate, loose, and transversely striate. 
HORTICULTURAL NOTES MADE DURING 
A EEW DAYS IN FRANCE. 
Having to accompany my daughter to France, in the 
early paid of the month of May, I made a few notes, which, 
probably, you may think would be of some little interest to 
your readers. 
Our destination was Margency, a village at the head of the 
valley of Montmorency, from which it is situated at a dis¬ 
tance of about half a league. It is reached from Paris by 
railroad, and omnibus or fly. 
We left Paris by the Chemin de Fer du Ford, and, after 
taking our tickets, were penned up in the waiting-rooms until 
the train was ready,—a custom always rather annoying to 
our English notions of freedom and liberty. The 
doors were thrown open to each class in succession ; 
and, having taken our places in most comfortable and 
superior carriages,—far superior to any in our own 
country,—weproceededto Enghien, passing through St. 
Denis, which is fast becoming a large manufacturing 
town. 
Enghien is a noted place of amusement for the 
Parisian badauds (equivalent to our cockneys), who do 
not show bad taste in their selection of such a locality ; 
for, besides being delightfully situated, it possesses a 
very picturesque lake, upon which they row, and in 
which they fish, although, I suspect, without much 
result. 
From Enghien we proceeded by voiture (an open fly) 
to Margency, skirting Montmorency, which is built on 
the heights which protect its valley—long celebrated 
for its beauty—from the northern winds. This valley 
is one of the most prolific tracts of country in the 
neighbourhood of the French capital, which it sup¬ 
plies with Vegetables, Fknvers, and Fruit. It is par¬ 
ticularly noted for its Asparagus, which is grown 
without any preparation oi beds, but simply in the 
open ground, and generally between rows of the Vine. 
The method of culture of the two appears to be, to 
draw the earth from the Vines in the autumn, over the 
Asparagus; the first, therefore, remaining in the hol¬ 
lows or trenches thus formed; the latter, under the 
ridges. The winter dressing of the Vine is simply 
w r ood-ashes; they eschew manure entirely. These 
ashes are left exposed during the winter, and were so 
exposed when I saw them on the 10th of May. 
Atter the crop of Asparagus is cut, the ashes are 
slightly forked in, and the whole field—for they are 
open fields—is then levelled. Thus, then, they expose 
the roots of the Vines to a nearer proximity to the 
atmosphere during the winter months, and the reverse 
treatment for the Asparagus. 
I leave it to your more scientific contributors to 
explain the why and the wherefore of this ; I could 
not learn. Success, at all events, attends the culture as 
regards Asparagus ; but the Vines of this country, al¬ 
though yielding a good, fair, and saleable grape, are 
utterly worthless for wine: whether it could be im¬ 
proved by a different cultivation, or not, I cannot say. 
It is quite worth naming, that the use of sulphur, 
both as a preventive and a cure of the mildew oidium , 
is general throughout this district; and, in fact, so it 
must be throughout France, for the price of the article 
has doubled within the last two years. The most 
general method of application is by the boite d 
houppe of Messrs. Ouin and Franc. I bought one 
of the makers, when in Paris, but I think I have 
seen them advertised in your publication. I would 
