. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. uld be perpetuated from seed. Apart from this, the variety would have abeautiful effect on many classes of ornamentalgardening.—Ed. G. EDITORIAL NOTES. Nertera depressa.—In woods in the EasternUnited States we have a very pretty trailingevergreen plant of small size known as Mitch-ella repens, and sometimes commonly calledPartridge berry. The little plant is covered withbright red berries, about the size of holly ber-ries, which when the flowers happen to be freelyfertilized, are abundantly produced. It has beenfound of late years ttiat the flow
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. uld be perpetuated from seed. Apart from this, the variety would have abeautiful effect on many classes of ornamentalgardening.—Ed. G. EDITORIAL NOTES. Nertera depressa.—In woods in the EasternUnited States we have a very pretty trailingevergreen plant of small size known as Mitch-ella repens, and sometimes commonly calledPartridge berry. The little plant is covered withbright red berries, about the size of holly ber-ries, which when the flowers happen to be freelyfertilized, are abundantly produced. It has beenfound of late years ttiat the flowers are di-mor-phic. In some the stamens are long and thepistil short, in others the facts are reversed;the result is that the flower rarely fertilizes it-self, and only the flowers from a distinct plantare capable of fertilizing the flowers of anotherplant. A white-berried variety has occasionallybeen found, but it is of little practical value,because when removed to garden culture, andbeing effectually of only one sex, the berries are. nertera produced. In its wild state it receives thepollen from the colored flowers about it. It is interesting to note how nature seemsto nearly repeat herself in different parts of theworld, holding on to the same type, and yetvarying just enough to make things is this community of type which makes oneguess at a theory of evolution, even thoughthere were no positive facts to support the doc-trine. Mitchella repens is confined to NorthAmerica, and there seems to be nothing veryclosely allied to it, but in South America thereis a real Mitchella, M. ovata, and besides a genusof a very few species, Nertera, which is sonearly like it, that species have been referred toboth genera by some authors, uncertain towhich thev reallv belnnsred. One of these has 1882,J AND HORTICULTURIST. 153 been some time under culture, chiefly throughthe energy of Haage & Schmidt, of Erfurt,—Nertera depressa, a small cut of which we givewi
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