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years, this genus having, as I think unjustly, been thrown into 

 the shade by more favoured races. Still I hope some spirited 

 cultivator will again bring them into public estimation, and place 

 them in company with other more esteemed species. 

 List of varieties grown to bloom in the autumn : 



Amaryllis Johnsoni Amaryllis picta 



reginae Solandriflora vittata 



• reginae Sweetii 



reticulata marginata conspicua 



vittata nobilis 



Acramanni marginata venusta 



concinna aulica 



grand is And several other hybrids. 



insignis 



XXV. — Journal of a Mission to California in search of 

 Plants. By Mr. Theodore Hartweg, in the service of the 

 Horticultural Society. Part I. 



[It has been already stated (p. 169) that in the autumn of last 

 year the Council of the Society decided upon sending Mr. 

 Hartweg out again as a collector. He was instructed to proceed 

 to Vera Cruz, thence to reach the city of Mexico without delay, 

 and afterwards to station himself at Tepic until an opportunity 

 occurred of obtaining a passage to California. In that country 

 he was to spend one or two years, as might appear to himself 

 most advisable. The following is the journal which Mr. Hartweg 

 has kept, in pursuance of his instructions, as far as it has been 

 yet received.] 



After a passage of forty-five days in one of the royal mail 

 steam-packets, I arrived in the evening of the 13th of November, 

 1845, in the roadstead of Vera Cruz, and landed the following 

 morning, when I presented my letters of introduction, and made 

 arrangements with Messrs. Manning, Mackintosh, and Co., with 

 regard to forwarding the collections I might from time to time 

 send to their care. 



On the morning of the 15th I left Vera Cruz for the sugar 

 estate of Mirador, where I was welcomed by my old friend, Mr. 

 Sartorius. Mirador is about three miles from Zacuapan, where 

 Mr. Sartorius then resided when I arrived in Mexico in De- 

 cember, 1836 ; and being situated on the eastern declivity of 



