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mens to send home, Peppers and Zroidee abound here, but the latter 
are such monstrous things that T scarcely know how I shall send them 
alive. There are several sorts of Mandiocca cultivated here, and I pro- 
pose sending you plants of each.” 
We may here state, what the Subscribers to Mr. Spruce’s dried col- 
lections will learn with satisfaction, that Mr. Bentham has kindly 
undertaken to name and distribute them; to be delivered in London, 
free of charge, at the price of £2 the 100 species. Applications may 
be made to G. Bentham, Esq., Pontrilas House, Hereford. 
We have reason to believe that Mr. Spruce will provide separately 
sets of Ferns, Cyperacee, and Grasses, for those who may desire them 
exclusively, 
Appointments to Colonial Gardens. 
The Chief Secretary for Colonial affairs, Earl Grey, has been pleased 
to appoint G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq., to be the successor to the late Mr. 
Gardner, at the Botanic Garden of Peradenia, Ceylon, and a more fit 
person could not have been selected ; and Mr. Duncan to succeed Mr. 
Newman at the Botanic Garden, Mauritius. 
lt will not be out of place here to mention that M. Pancher, who 
was Director of the * Atelier des Graines at the J ardin des Plantes 
at Paris, is gone out to Otaheite, as Government Gardener there for 
the French Republic. 
Bread-fruit Tree flowering in England. 
It is well known that, at the last Chiswick Horticultural Show, 
were exhibited by Mr. Iveson, Gardener to Her Grace the Duchess 
Dowager of Northumberland at Syon, the following very rare ripe 
tropical fruits, the produce of the stove there, viz., Nutmeg, Chocolate, 
Vanilla, Allspice, Cloves, Gamboge (at least one kind, Xanthochymus 
pictorius, Roxb.), and Papaw; and now we have the pleasure of being 
able to state that the Bread-fruit (4rtocarpus incisa) in the same con- 
servatory is bearing its two kinds of flowers, and with every prospect 
of the fruit setting, assuredly for the first time in Europe.—We may 
here add, too, that a fine tree of Mango, in the great new stove of the 
Royal Gardens of Kew, is at this moment ripening fourteen well-formed 
fruits. 
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