. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. in fact, double the size of the ordinary redcurrant. The wood is vigorous, with a brown-ish-coloured bark, having small light lines onits surface. The leaves, which are borne onangular petioles, from two-and-a-half to threeinches long, are about four inches broad whenfully grown, five-lobed, deeply and irregularlydentated at the margins ; the veins, especiallythe three mid ones, being more than usuallystrong. The fruit bunches are fully fourinches long, each bearing about twenty-fiveberries, which are nearly half
. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. in fact, double the size of the ordinary redcurrant. The wood is vigorous, with a brown-ish-coloured bark, having small light lines onits surface. The leaves, which are borne onangular petioles, from two-and-a-half to threeinches long, are about four inches broad whenfully grown, five-lobed, deeply and irregularlydentated at the margins ; the veins, especiallythe three mid ones, being more than usuallystrong. The fruit bunches are fully fourinches long, each bearing about twenty-fiveberries, which are nearly half an inch indiameter, of a fine dark vermilion colour,quite round, and having a slightly acid, andon the whole a very grateful taste. It is saidto be a very prolific and much esteemed sortin Belgium, in which country it appears tohave been raised by M. De Gondouin. Itrequires to be vigorously grown, and shouldbe planted in a place partially shaded fromthe sun, and where there is plenty of air, anda good substantial soil; fresh plantationsshould be made every four or five EXACUM ZEYLANICUM. Exacum zeylanicum, Roxburgh (CeylonExacum).—Gentianacese § Gentianea?. This plant is closely allied to the Chironias,of which some pretty species are not unfre-quently met with in cultivation; the present,which was called Chironia trinerois by Lin-nseus, is in every respect deserving the atten-tion of admirers of plants. Whether or no itwill prove to be a cultivable plant, remains to be proved; the probability is, that being anannual, it will some day die out for the wantof a supply of perfectly organized seeds. It is, as just stated, an annual plant; its habitis erect, branching only in the upper part, andthere in a corymbose manner. The stems, aswell as all the parts of the plant, are quitesmooth, and they are, moreover, of an equalfour-sided figure. On these stems are borne theopposite leaves, which are without foot-stalks,or nearly so, and are of an elliptic-oblong, orbroadly la
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