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when they must he removed. The growth of the shoots will now be found so rapid as to require 
almost daily attention in nailing and training. Again, when this growth has attained from ten to 
fifteen or eighteen inches, the shoots are to be topped. It is impossible to prescribe any special length, 
as much will depend on the strength of the shoots, what direction they take, and the general formation 
of the tree; this topping takes place at d. The same care and attention as before must now be paid 
to the new shoots, and when they have grown an equal length they are to be topped again (at e). 
Some trees will be more vigorous in growth than others; but many will require a fourth topping. 
This I have had to do frequently, and in the following spring, had firm well ripened wood, that cut 
more like a piece of oak than what is generally seen as peach wood, and the trees were well filled-in 
with bearing wood. Whilst these various toppings are going on, there are, of course, many vacancies 
in the trees, which I take for granted are filled up with weaker branches at full length, that the trees 
may be completely furnished with fruit-bearing wood; and instances will also occur (as seen in Fig. 3) 
where it will not be necessary to lay in more than one shoot at the regular toppings of some of the 
branches, yet these vigorous branches will require to be topped to bring them into a bearing state. 
The Peach and Nectarine are the only trees which will submit to this system of summer pruning on 
the wall; the Apricot and others will not.— Thomas Hatch. 
THE SPECIES OE BEJAEIA. 
f HE genus Bejaria was established by Mutis in 1761, in honour of Don Antonio Bejar, a learned 
Professor of Botany at Cadiz, and was published subsequently by the younger Linnaeus under the 
erroneous name of Befaria. As garden plants, the Bejarias are elegant shrubs producing a fine effect, 
in a temperate house, among Azaleas , Rhododendrons , and similar plants. Their culture is easy, their 
foliage beautiful and persistent, their flowers handsome and well coloured ; but they are little known. 
New species have, however, been recently introduced to the gardens of Europe ; and hence the follow 
ing abstract of a paper by Professor Herincq, in the Revue Horticole, will be interesting. Some 
few kinds were long since introduced :—thus B. racemosa was obtained from Florida about 1810 ; B. 
glauca was introduced in 1826, from Venezuela, where it was found growing at an altitude of more 
than seven thousand feet, and B. ledifolia came from the same country in 1846. 
Another species was published early in 1849, in the Botanical Magazine, under the name of 
coarctata ; but this is quite different from the plant previously described and figured under that name 
by Humboldt and Bonpland. 
Their B. coarctata is a shrub of about three feet and a half in height, with glabrous spreading branches, 
furnished with alternate, glabrous, oblong leaves, generally attenuated towards both extremities, glaucous below, 
with glabrous petioles; the flowers are purple, and disposed in terminal panicles, their peduncles and calyces 
covered with dense ferruginous wool. It grows in abundance in Peru in the Paramo of Yanaguanga, at an 
elevation of from six to nine thousand feet above the level of the sea, in a climate which is cold and misty, where 
it grows on porphyritic rocks. 
[A plant raised in 1846 or 1847, by Messrs. Veitch, and referred to this species by Dr. Bindley 
(Gard. Chron., 175), is described as having hairy branches, woolly flower stalks, a smooth calyx of 7-8 
blunt ovate sepals, a little woolly at the edges, and purple seven or eight petalied flowers, smaller than 
in B. cestuans , and more closely arranged. Mr. Lobb is said to have mistaken it for B. grandijlora.~\ 
B. coarctata of the Botanical Magazine, which was received from M. Makoy of Beige, under this 
name, by the Museum at Paris, differs from Humboldt’s plant principally in the extremity of its 
branches, as well as the leaves, petioles, peduncles, and calyces being clothed with long hairs, which are 
at first white, then russet, and terminate in a small spherical transparent gland. In this plant we 
recognize a new species which it is proposed to name B. Lindeniana (Herincq), in honour of 
M. Linden, who, during eleven years of perilous travels through Mexico and New Grenada, has en¬ 
riched horticulture with a vast collection of beautiful plants. 
