92 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Verbena Pulcherrima. Mr. Low of the Clapton Nursery, Las received 

 this kind during the last summer; we saw it in bloom there. The flowera 

 are of a lilac purple, with a white centre; it is one of the erect growing 

 kinds. 



Azalea Gledstanana. This variety may be said to be twin to A. Late- 

 rita, only, producing its very different, but most beautiful white flowers ; it 

 is grown at the Tooting Nursery, and to be had at one guinea per plant. 



LoeLiA Albida. A very interesting addition to our stove orchidea, and sent 

 from Oaxaca to Mr. Bateraan of Kynpersly. The plant has the graceful 

 appearance of L. Autumnalis, but the flowers are very dissimilar, both in 

 form and colour ; in the present species each flower is about two inches 

 across, white, with a bright yellow streak down the middle of the lip, and a 

 few crimson spots at the base; they are also fragrant. It is an additional 

 recommendation that it is of easy culture, and a very free bloomer. 



THE GARDENS 



OF THE 



ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



INNER CIRCLE, REGENT'S PARK. 



(Continued from page 70.) 



In our colonies the foundation of botanical gardens has been an object of 

 government solicitude; nor has private enterprise been neglectful in pro- 

 moting them in our own country. The two universities, Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge, have botanical gardens ; so also have Birmingham, Liverpool, 

 Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds, Hull, Bury St. Edmunds, aud Colchester; and 

 they have been recently established at Cheltenham and Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne. In Scotland there are gardens at Edinburgh and Glasgow. In 

 Ireland, at Dublin, is one belonging to Trinity College, and the splendid 

 establishment at Glasnevin, of the Dublin Society; there are others at Cork 

 and Bel fast. ^ 



Having referred to the progress on the continent, and in our provinces, 

 we shall in examining what has been done in the neighbourhood of the me- 

 tropolis, find that there is sufficient encouragement to induce us to supply 

 the deficiency. At Chelsea is a small garden of three acres, founded iu the 

 37th century, aud given in 1721, by Sir Hans Sloane, to the Apothecaries' 

 Company, and devoted by them to the study of medicine, and of which they 

 now contemplate the abandonment, if they can obtain a more suitable 

 locality. Those at Kew have obtained considerable reputation, but are 

 at too great a distance to be available to the great mass of the metropolitan 

 population, while their system of management is far from being adequate to 

 the requisites of a national institution. 



That the public mind is prepared to support a botanic garden is evident 

 by the progress of botany iu every department. The number of scientific 

 societies and floricultural exhibitions are proofs in themselves of the ten- 

 dency of popular taste, while a great devolopement is daily given to the 

 culture of this science in the Zoological and public gardens, and cemeteries. 

 As cultivators of the picturesque beauties of plants we stand in the highest 

 position ; and the English style in the decoration of gardens is that which is 

 most prevalent on the continent, aud most approved, while we stand in an 

 eminent position with regard to the scientific study of botany by our authors 

 and expeditions of discovery. 



. With such acknowledged advantages to be derived from the establish- 

 ment of a botanic garden, and with such a tendency of public taste, it would 



