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a party of soldiers start to-day from Castro for the station in the serta of the 
Parana Panema. І intend to start to-morrow. I cannot tell what success I may 
meet with; one thing is certain—that no one was ever there before on the same 
errand. 
Since arriving here I have been over a great extent of ground to the N.W. of the 
village between the rivers Yapo, Cinza, Jaguarahiba, and Jaguaracutü, and have 
collected specimens of all the plants I met with in flower, and a few seeds of 
. Several species which I think are worth cultivation. 
Iam, &c., i 
(Signed) Лонх Weir. 
To the SgCRETARY OP THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
SocrETY. 
XXL—NOTES ON FOREIGN PRODUCTIONS EXHI: 
BITED AT THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL FRUIT, VEGE- 
TABLE, ROOT, CEREAL, AND GOURD SHOW, OCTOBER, 
2. ; 
By ВовЕвт Тномрзох, Superintendent of the Fruit Department, Chiswick. 
Tuts show has been reported generally in the Proceedings of the 
Society; but it was so vast, and the time during which the articles 
remained on view necessarily so limited, that а full and particular 
account of each is impossible, and even could the necessary materials 
have been collected in the time, that account would have filled volumes. 
The Catalogue alone, containing the entries and awards of the judges, 
occupies nearly 100 pages, independent of collections from Canada and 
Nova Scotia, which arrived subsequently. The awards are sufficient 
indications of the most meritorious exhibitions in the respective classes. 
From exhibitors in this country, similar productions to those they sent 
may perhaps be exhibited in any future year; but the produce such as 
was exhibited from various foreign countries cannot, from their distance, 
be seen except on some extraordinary occasion. The recent one afforded 
an opportunity of examining the productions of many distant lands and 
climes, from the tropics to the polar regions ; and though we are familiar 
with the vegetation of our own country, that of others being less known, 
some remarks connected with the foreign productions brought forward 
at the late Exhibition may prove interesting and perhaps useful, directly 
or heron f in а horticultural point of view. 
tis certain that so many subjects of exhibition in the way of fi its 
vegetables, &с., were never before assembled in Siar tant 
portion of its produce to this universal exhibition. Th. 
в p this: - that such was the 
case appears from the Mowing table of places whence productions for 
exhibition came, and the zones in which they are situated, 
