. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . nobilis showed nosign of flower. S. W. Fitsherbert. .ALTH/EA FICIFOLIA,—A specimen of this planthas been cultivated in my garden for the last tenjyears. Last year I saw that there were red insteadof yellow flowers on the plant; but as, accordingto Schkuhr, Bot. Handbuch, the plant sometimesproduces flowers of a dark red colour instead ofyellow, I took no particular notice, as the charac-teristic digitate leaves were present. This speci-men is now flowering again, and is now nothing else but A. rosea
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . nobilis showed nosign of flower. S. W. Fitsherbert. .ALTH/EA FICIFOLIA,—A specimen of this planthas been cultivated in my garden for the last tenjyears. Last year I saw that there were red insteadof yellow flowers on the plant; but as, accordingto Schkuhr, Bot. Handbuch, the plant sometimesproduces flowers of a dark red colour instead ofyellow, I took no particular notice, as the charac-teristic digitate leaves were present. This speci-men is now flowering again, and is now nothing else but A. rosea, the well-known Hollyhock. Theflowers are rose not red coloured. I have noother Hollyhocks in my garden. 3f. Buysman, Middelburg, Holland. ABNORMAL PHYLLOTAXIS OF ASH.—I send aphotogi-aph of a leader shoot of the common Ash(Fraxinus excelsior), which shows a f spiralarrangement of the leaves instead of the normalopposite and decussate one. The shoot is oneof four showing the same arrangement whichI found in January last on the banks of theriver Boyne, 2 miles or thereby below the town. Fig. 55.—, IN THE COMMON ASH. of Navan, in the county of Meath, Ireland. Theplants from which the shoots were produced weregrowing in a clump of several hundreds, but Idid not observe any of the others to have any butthe normal arrangement. The plants were from8 to 10 feet in height, and the strongest of theprevious years leader shoots showed growths offrom 4 to 5 feet in length, the abnormal ones inno way differing from the others in this abnormalities of the leaf arrangementare sometimes seen in the short, stunted shoots ofold Ash trees, this is the first instance of thesort which has come under my observation inthe case of young trees. A. D. Richardson,Edinburgh, GROWTH AND REPRODUCTION.—It comesas a sort of corollary to the opinions put forwardby Professor Henslow on the effects of sowinglarge seeds for reproductive purposes, that itshould recently h
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