CONTENTS. 



Article 

 XXXVII. Some Account of Achimenes patens, with its cultivation, 

 and that of the species allied to it. By Mr. George 

 Gordon, A.L.S., Superintendent of the Hardy Depart- 

 ment in the Society's Garden. ( With a coloured plate) 

 XXXVIII. Observations on the Growth of the Pine Apple. By Mr. 

 James Barnes, C.M.H.S., Gardener to the Lady Rolle, 

 F.H.S., Bicton, near Sidmouth ..... 



XXXIX. A Report upon the action of a Tubular Boiler, erected in 

 the Garden of the Society. By Mr. R. Thompson, 

 Superintendent of the Orchard and Kitchen Garden De- 

 partment of the Society's Garden .... 



XL. Experimental Inquiry into the comparative efiFect of 

 various Manures upon Kitchen Garden Crops. By Mr. 

 R. Thompson, Superintendent in the Orchard and 

 Kitchen Garden Department of the Society's Garden . 

 XLI. A Notice of the Tein-ching, or Chinese Indigo. By 

 Mr. R. Fortune, Sixperintendcnt of the Hot-house Depart- 

 ment in the Society's Garden 

 XLII. Some Account of the Stanwick Nectarine. By Mr. Robert 

 Thompson, Superintendent of the Orchard and Kitchen 

 Garden Department in the Society's Garden 

 XLIII. Contributions to a History of the Relation between Climate 

 and Vegetation in various parts of the Globe. — No. 2. 

 The Vegetation of the Organ Mountains of Brazil. By 

 George Gardner, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Ceylon ...... 



No. 3. The Vegetation of Bahia and Pernambuco 

 No. 4. The Vegetation of Alagoas and the Rio de Sail 

 Francesco ........ 



XLIV. Notice of a New Grape called Josling's St. Alban's. By 

 Mr. Robert Thompson, Superintendent of the Orchard 

 and Kitchen Garden Department in the Society's Garden 



New Plants, &c., from the Society 



1. Anemone Japonica 



2. Buddlea Lindleyana . 



3. Ficus virgata 



4. Abelia rupestris 



5. Cattleya maxima 



6. Weigela rosea . 



7. Pterostigma grandiflorum 



8. Brassica Chinensis 



9. Indigofera decora 



10. Silene Schafta . 



11. Statice Fortuni . 



12. Calystegia pubescens . 



13. The Shang-hai Han-Tsi 



14. The Chusan Han-Tsi 



15. Rhynchospermum jasminoides 



16. Sedum Kamtchaticum 



17. Ophiopogon prolifer . 



1 8. Graellsia saxifragaefolia 



19. Plumbago zeylanica . 



20. Cochlearia acaulis 



21. Primula involucrata . 



22. Daphne Fortuni 



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