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not yet, though I sadly want it. (A quantity of Vol. V. is now at Messrs. 

 Whittaker and Co.'s.) Nor is it in Rees' Cyclopaedia, neither among the 

 Liliums nor Amaryllises. If it is not cultivated iu this country, it deserves to 

 be. It is fragrant, as well as graceful. Perhaps it is among the Narcissuses. 

 Will you allow me to call your attention to the smallness of the letters giving 

 the names of the flowers in the plates ? I am not young, and cannot read them 

 by candlelight without a magnifying glass, much stronger than the spectacles I 

 commonly use. This of course is to me a great inconvenience ; might they not 

 be larger, without injury to the beauty or symmetry of the plates ? [It shall be 

 attended to. — Conductor.] 



One of your correspondents, speaking of the Banksian Rose, says they require 

 a greenhouse. Seven years ago, when I left the house I then resided at, I had 

 a Banksian (white) Rose, which had stood many winters (some without the pro- 

 tection even of a mat) and had reached an elevation of 20 feet, intermixed with 

 a red Boursault. I have also seen the yellow (in my opinion much the hand- 

 somer) blooming against a wall, and reaching to a considerable height. I think 

 it was at the Horticultural Garden at Chiswick. What protection it had in 

 winter I am unable to say. 



Fulham, October 26, 1840. A. A. 



[We judge the plant seen to be one of the Hemerocallideae, or Day Lily tribe, 

 and of the genus Funkia ; the foliage and form of flower resembling those kind, 

 we know. If any of our readers should know the plant, we shall be obliged by 

 the name. — Conductor.] 



Fuchsia cor\jibiflora. — Grows very vigorously in the open ground when 

 planted in a light and rich soil. It should be planted out iu May when danger 

 from frost is over. A free supply of water is required. If desired to have it to 

 bloom in the greenhouse, it can be taken up, ball entire, very readily, water after 

 potting and keep it a few days in a close place ; it gives it very little check, and 

 does not injure its blooming. Planted out in a conservatory it forms a splendid 

 specimen, if it has only plenty of root room. If cuttings of the flowering shoots, 

 at an early stage, be taken off, put into thumb pots, and placed under a bell- 

 glass in heat, or in a hot-bed frame, they soon strike root, and make unique 

 dwarf flowering plants. It is considered vhe hardest fuchsia yet introduced into 

 this country. 



Mrs. Hamilton Nesbitt Ferguson, Biel, East Lothian, lat. 55° 55' N. — 

 At this northern station, where the climate is so variable that in 1826 harvest 

 was almost finished by the end of July, and in 1838 was not gathered iu by the 

 eud of the year. Mr. Street has succeeded in acclimatising several plants. In 

 the spring of 1839, he planted on an open border near a south-wall, Anchusa 

 capensis ; it flowered and ripened its seeds freely. The following spring several 

 seedling plants came up on the border, which began to flower in August, and 

 continued till late in December. These plants ripened their seeds the same 

 year, some of which were eaten with avidity by mice. During the early part of 

 last summer, Mr. Street planted out under a south wall, trellised, Lophosper- 

 mum' r erubescens ; it grew well, aud was in full flower by the end of July, and 

 continued to bloom till December, the flowers being of a much deeper and richer 

 colour than when grown under cover. It has produced some seed-pods, though 

 it is uncertain whether they will ripen. A small bulb of Pancratium Illyricum, 

 planted out on an open border in 1829, five inches deep, produced two bunches 

 of flowers in 1832 ; the flower-stems were 17 inches high, and had each 12 flowers. 

 In August 45 seeds were ripened, six seeds being swelled off in each pod. In 

 1833 and 1834 this plant produced three flower-stems, each bearing 13 flowers, 

 and ripened its seed freely both years. In 1835 it tent up fine flowering stems, 

 each having 15 flowers; and iu July its foliage and flower-stems were two feet 

 long, the former being two inches wide. In 1836 it produced 11 flower-stalks, 

 each bearing 17 flowers, aud this year it ripened half an ounce of seed. In 1837 

 and 1838, 12 stems were produced, each having 2 1 flowers, aud a great deal of 

 seed was ripened, Iu 1839 each stem had 20 flowers on it, In November of 



