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London. Mr. Stevens will be glad to receive the names of any persons 

 who are disposed to become subscribers, and who, besides enriching 

 their own herbaria, would be a means of encouraging a very deserving 

 person, who without such assistance cannot be expected to continue his 

 researches in a very expensive country, of which the vegetation is very 

 little known either in the garden or in the horti sicci of the country. 

 The price for the dried plants is 40s. the 100 species, free of any other 

 charge. 



Abies nobilis, bearing Cones in the North of Scotland. 



A. W. M'Tier, Esq., has been so good as to send us recently some 

 fine Cones of this noble Pine of Oregon Territory, produced on a tree 

 of only sixteen years, planted at Durris House, near Aberdeen. Though 

 well formed, and of a good size, very few have ripened seeds, yet there 

 was no lack of male flowers. The tree has already attained a height of 

 twenty-two feet, having in one season made a growth in the leader of 

 three feet three inches ; and, notwithstanding this is the first year of 

 its bearing, the number of cones counted is upwards of forty. In the 

 same locality, a few miles up Deeside, we believe, and not very near 

 the sea, Abies Douglasii, sixteen years planted, is forty-two feet high, 

 and has borne cones for the last two seasons, but these are generally 

 barren. In one season its growth was six feet. Araucaria imbricata 

 there is doubtfully hardy, and requires peculiar situations, such as are 

 but little exposed to the sun. Saxegothea conspicua stood out the 

 winters of 1853 and 1854 untouched, but seems of slow growth; and 

 Cryptomeria Japonica promises well with a northern aspect. 



of M. Huet 

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brother returned in the autumn from their excursions into Sicily, 

 Calabria, and the Abruzzos, as we announced in our Journal for last 

 year (p. 380). Their botanical collections are now about to be distri- 

 buted, and we are perfectly sure that from the rarity of many of 

 them and the beautiful preservation of the whole they will give great 



satisfaction. 



