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and hospitality of Messrs. Mackenzie, Brothers, and Co., mer- 

 chants in Shanghae, whose house was open to me as my home, and 

 where, by the skill of Dr. Lockhart and Dr. Kirk, the fever gra- 

 dually left me, and I was enabled to attend to my collections. 



In addition to the plants discovered last year, I obtained about 

 this time some valuable species from Japan. Every means had 

 been vised during my early visit to Shanghae to induce the Chinese 

 nursery-gardeners to import for me Japan plants in the junks 

 which annually trade between Chapoo and that country. Several 

 collections had been brought me, but none of any value until this 

 autumn, when some Azaleas and other plants of much interest 

 arrived. 



The whole of my plants from the districts of Foo-chow-foo, 

 Chusan, and Ningpo, being now brought together at Shanghae, I 

 got them packed, and left the north of China for the last time on 

 the 10th of October, on my way to Hong Kong and England. 

 When I arrived at Hong Kong, I despatched eight glazed cases of 

 living plants, the duplicates of which and many others I intended 

 to bring home under my own care. I now went up to Canton, and 

 took my passage for England ; and with 18 glazed cases filled with 

 the most beautiful plants of Northern China, sailed on the 22nd of 

 December. We arrived in the Thames on the 6th of May, 1846, 

 having been three years and three months absent from home. 



The plants arrived in excellent order, and the following kinds, 

 amongst many others, may be noticed as having been imported this 

 year for the first time : — 



Glycine sinensis, with white flowers. 

 Azalea obtusa, from Japan. 

 ,, sp. from Japan. 

 „ four species from the north 

 of China. 

 Prunus sinensis (flore pleno albo). 

 Dielytra spectabilis. 

 Berberis (Mahonia) Fortuni. 

 Scutellaria sp., a fine herbaceous 



plant with blue flowers. 

 Rose, the fine double climbing yel- 

 low. 



„ double white climbing var. 

 „ dark red do. 

 „ purple garden kind. 



Pinus sp., from Japan, two var. 



Oak from Chusan. 



Camellia hexangularis (true). 



„ " star," ? a var. of hexan- 

 gularis. 



Spirsea sp. 



Lycopodium sp. (" Man neen 

 chung " of the Chinese). 



Kum-quat, a curious small orange. 



1 30 plants of Tree Pseonies, consist- 

 ing of 12 or 14 varieties, having 

 flowers of various shades of purple, 

 lilac, dark red, and white. 



Seeds of the true Shantung cabbage — 

 a very valuable northern kind. 



The number of plant-cases altogether amounted to 69, besides 

 packages of seeds, some of which arrived in better condition than 

 could have been expected, and others in worse. As all my fine 

 plants, however, were sent several times, I find, upon looking over 

 my lists, that there are only two of value which have really been 

 lost to the country : the one is a Rosaceous shrub found on the 



