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at no great distance 8 the baii given me 
a$ ue Smilax officin 
navigation of e river Sogamoza is both 
ult and dangerous. For about seventeen 
n with the М n 
iu h a comparatively flat and e 
d 
but above this it flows in a deep inii narrow 
ught the locality seemed 
promising, T y хеч to spend a E days there 
my re n arriving at aramanga, I 
Eod Бич fis dr were in foo tw a state to 
to Pamplona, and that I had 
ge 
mete, Мазза т 
йш nine дау A at t Sa an Pablo for 
ur, ihe, de аус hourly яй hne 
time. There had not en one down the ri 
ived 
ч 
О 
меген 
а month ipe I arrived there. Another has 
to grief in the river, making the second since I 
came out К I got fever, too, coming down the 
e and lay at Barranquilla a age with it, I 
m better т but still very w 
zr nketa "will eas England i in good 
чей; they are in a good state now, жч 
ie th е long j journey they have — e—I 
ear your obedient servant, Joun 
To thé Seeretary of the 
Royal Horticultural Socicty. 
Ep ien al ied 
ich ought not to рш unree 
ee which seem to call a 
pass re 
ar 
In the ~~ place, the Royal Horticultural Society 
Was he foremost, if not the very mae = vem 
out the мы of fellowship, and pro 
Operation and support to the Belgian Federation, 
t least ie some 
both on this occasion and at its first organisation | 
in 1862. The Council, moreover, lent their best 
aid in making the details of the Соза "y 
=. їп recommending t the concurrence of Reali hi 
exhibito ors. They Manag a deputation, com- 
posed partly of members of Council, partly of 
Fallows, and partly of des: own officers, to repre- 
hem D 
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5 
= 
wit ith 
ngress. ere no 
TY v. d y 
"o hospitality pu dé "Con Were 
therefore, itis natural that 
other reason than this, 
y the pre- 
ost important w: tedl 
keen int n the Exhibition 
journeyed 
The charm and enema of во во many men who 
knew each other b writings and reputation, 
ut who had never chats met, and but for such a 
Congress probably never would t, ne n 
scarcely be over-estimated ; alue in 
d i 
pouin sense as a libe ralising agent он the 
а. perhaps less apparent on the surface, wi was 
probably even more importan 
x а ost necessary rail ary to the presence 
ny eminent botanists was the high 
eal as distinguished from the purely Pi 
cultural. prem cter of a large portion * i €: Exhibi- | 
word Ne ps ңар їп 
hie 
truly admirable. screw pines, 
marantas, the aralias, the hollies, the abused the 
ds 
succulent plants, the orchids, &e. &c., were remark- 
both for variety, size, and number, and added 
immensely not only to the y of the scene, but 
toits interest. The exhibitions on the Continent 
* Profes: and Morren prevented 
m ‘he inter ту "а typhoid Eg = w E М str man 
t Шу C 
pr е Congress qr Кое а origi- 
ied out by him until a few Them ps the 
meeting, his absence was felt as а great blank and depri- : 
vation by all. 
