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half the quantity, = accompanied each lot at 
least to the river an ere awaited the 
steamer етө», |? think they would have saved 
many о dene азау 
“ 
You ware that this is only my opinion; 
but касыл I "fil or not, or whether you blame 
me or nof, I will at least have t 
Sta. Marta, September 1864.—To the Seer etary. 
Sir, —As I advised you by last mail of my intention 
you ou will be prepared a oem that I left Bogota 
on the 31st ult., with 
wit 
т. They are, nets. all mix 
impossible к pto e the h 
had wri 
a steamer from 
till hoped to get cm 
quilla . Marta, в 
to unpack them before the mail left; but in get- 
g to Magunque we met the Sta, M. steamer 
coming up the river, and I then knew that the 
plants would have to go in n- 
quilla, and that there 3D we six chances to one that 
uc vaga ч у get in time for the 
when 
; but Ile left M other to e ор аб 
to get a conve ee for la. p eren се 
ao: IT " шур uts, Tat last suc- 
other passengers. We 
I i po finished "me в the my 
plan I e scarcel hee left. out o 
pine but E 
n 
ive, sad if 
ill get 
ү any of them do my journey will not have been 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
entirely lost, for if I had not brought them "€ 
they рын ны have arrived here too late 
for vom onth's steamer, d would bons had to 
lie*here satio month. Mr. —s collec ector, when 
he became aware of my intention of Boing down 
to the coast, asked me to take charge of six 
of his, and being under Mi enu to fim I could 
is pla 
not refuse, and have served ust as I did 
my own; but his were wo: n y r he had 
acked part of them in charcoal at the recom- 
endati his employers, and these were a 
total loss. I acked them in the presence of 
. Stacey and others, and Mr, S. represent 
Mr. te they were 
1 am sorry to inform you tha t the prapori ofa 
better быы am in the river have all faded 
been lost 
"ida a fifth s box, со 
mall 
а dp of Nos. 269, 261, 263, "204, "o 
273, and зы account of кен» » to June 14. 
І have not time to bring it down to a later date 
at present.—(Signed) J. Sy. 
Memorandum of Plants lately received ira Mr. 
Weir, and of the state in which they ar 
On 16th Sept., eight boxes. The bo: Pet 
tained ман và Schomburgkias, and odontog 
an "i oncidiums ; all the одой, 
ich 
opi, а and likely to 
new tricho 
wees found in the 
for the 
On 16th Oct., eight IRA containing fo 
most part cat leya Prone а жэй бон muri ны sp 
th a few odontogloss packe 
tleyas and Schomburgkias. The cattleyas € 
їп dition as th nt- иё 
consignment, but the odontoglots аге pei ie 
or eight ur uy come alive, i 
oncidiums. ontoglossums ke d à 
but all dead with the fiv exceptions nam 
On ist Nov., four boxes 0; "De 
containing four packets of das aide 
packets of se se coon few palm se 
In the boxe мА 
печатима " . 12 
Oncidium вр. . 2 
Epidendrum sp. (common) — - 8 
озуу ae 2 
B d acd > mn 
and 12 roots xo the new Anthoriom 7 
In the first box quite one-half of the одоно 
