' FLOEAL COMMITTEE, J 



ERRATUM IN PRECEDING LIST. 

 Class 35, p. 610. For J. Veitch & Son (Acer polymorphum atro-pui 

 pureutn S.B.), read Arthur Henderson, & Co., a large plaut, and J 

 Veitch & Son, a smaller plant, of Acer, &c., ut supra. 



{Continued from p. 580.) 

 June 11, 1861.— Tfte Rev. Joshua Dix, F.R.H.S., in the Chair. 

 There -was on this occasion produced a very interesting and 

 valuable collection of plants, sent from Japan hy Mr. R. Fortune. 

 These were exhibited by Mr. Standish, F.R.H.S., to whose care 

 they had been confided ; and though only a few jdays removed 

 from on board ship, they were in the most perfect health. With 

 reference to the hardiness of these plants, Mr. Standish stated 

 that the Sciadopitys verticillata, all the Retinosporas, Thujopsis 

 dolabrata, and the different forms of Osmanthus, were natives of 

 the hills near Yeddo, and consequently would be remarkably 

 hardy ; as a proof of which he mentioned that Mr. Baeuon had 

 the Thujopsis standing in the open ground last winter, without the 

 slightest injury from frost, though the serious amount of destruc- 

 tion amongst evergreen shrubs and trees, caused by the past 

 winter, around Derby and Nottingham, and indeed almost every- 

 where in the midland counties, is well known. This collection of 

 Mr. Fobtune's Japanese Plants had been already exhibited at 

 the Fete on the 5th instant, and the more important of them had 

 on that occasion received awards. These latter, which were now 

 necessarily passed over as having been already judged by the 

 Society, consisted of the following, namely : — 



Sciadopitys verticillata : one of the finest Conifers of Japan, 

 or, after the Deodar, of all Asia. Mr. Standish exhibited two 

 nice bushy young plants in perfect health, a foot high, showing 

 the aspect presented by the long linear blunt-ended foliage, and 

 also its peculiar whorled arrangement. Some of the older leaves 

 on these young specimens measured 3 inches in length. This had 

 received a Silver Knightian Medal at the exhibition on June 5th. 



Retinospora obtusa: a fine evergreen tree of the Arbor-vita 

 race, forming, according to Siebold, a straight bole 60 to 80 feet 

 high. Of this, a nice little bushy specimen was shown. It had 



