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last season, and cultivated some plants of it exactly as for dwarf plants of 

 B. suaveolens, and it answered most admirably — blooming profusely and appear- 

 ing most beautiful, with its long, deep red and orange blossoms. The plant 1 

 cultivated was three feet high, and had twenty-seven blossoms. Having procured 

 the plant of B. sanguinea early in February 1835, I cut off the top. I inarched 

 the top into a plant of B suaveolens, it soon united, and the new plant bloomed, 

 the flowers were much larger than those on the plant I took the lead from. The 

 shoots 1 find will easily unite either by inarching or grafting. This year I have 

 planted one B. sanguinea out of doors. The white B suaveolens 1 have bloomed 

 some years in the open border. 



Rhododendron arboreum. — Both the white and the rose flowered \arieties 

 are found in the native habits, to be confined to the single mountain of Sheo- 

 pore, among those which I had an opportunity of visiting during my sojourn in 

 Nepal, occupying the very summit of it, at an elevation of not less than ten 

 thousand feet above the sea. I observed a considerable number of plants, but 

 it appeared to me that those with rose coloured flowers were by far the most 

 common, they attain the size of very large forest trees, and are noble objects at 

 all times. They blossom in April and the beauty of them surpasses description, 

 the ample crown of the trees being entirely covered with bunches of large and 

 elegant blossms. The common red-flowered or parent species is likewise found 

 on the above mentioned mountain, but it is less frequent there than in lower and 

 warmer situation?. The two varieties above named are much more hardy than 

 the crimson-flowered kind. 



Dr. Wallich on India Plants. 



Dahlia Show at Horsham. — On Tuesday, August 23rd. a splendid Exhibi- 

 tion of Dahlias is to take place at Horsham, Sussex, which will be open to all 

 England — each grower is to show his flowers in stands, provided by himself; 

 containing thirty six blooms, and not deeper than two feet six inches, nor contain 

 more than five rows. The first prize is to be a beautiful case of Ivory-handled 

 Knives and Forks, similar to the one given at Vauxhall in September last. The 

 entrance is, up to the 11th. of August ten shillings, and from that time to the 

 20th. one pound. W. 



Hydrangea hortensis. — In the garden adjoining to the Workhouse at 

 Holt, in Norfolk, there is growing a magnificent Hydrangea, which is upwards 

 of five feet in height and near thirty in circumference it generally produces every 

 seasou from 400 to 500 large beads of flowers which create a most beautiful 

 effect, some being of a fine blue, others rose, and others white. 



A Star in the East. 



On Seeds and Bulbs of valuable plants to be disposed of. — Having 

 been a subscriber to your work from its first projection, 1 avail myself of that 

 channel to state : Dr. John Lhotsky, a member of the Botanical Society of 

 Bavaria, has consigned home, through my agent at Sydney, New South Wales, 

 a collection of rare seeds, made by him from the Australian Alps, a country never 

 before visited by any traveller, as well, from other remote parts of this interesting 

 • country — together with a number of bulbs of the gigantic Lily, (Doryanthes ex- 

 celsa), the Cabbage Tree, (Corypho australis), considered by him of great value 

 to the practical gardener or amateur collector. They are now to be disposed of 

 and I should be glad to know from you the best mode to be adopted for the sale 

 of this collection, the notice of which in next number, may draw the attention 

 of any one disposed to treat for them. They are preserved with great care, and 

 will be found to possess entire their germinating power. 



Post paid applications may be made to the Conductor of the Floricultural 

 Cabinet, who will give the address of the Gentleman, resident in London, who 

 possesses the seeds and bulbs. — Conductor. 



The Bath Horticultural Society will give upwards of £60 in plate at their last 

 show in September, as extra prizes for Dahlias, open to all England — this is 

 doing things with a spirit. 



The spirited proprietor of the Bristol and Clifton Nursery, Mr. Miller is going 

 to give two or three Horticultural fetes, at which a considerable number of prizes 

 "ill be given by him for flowers, fruit, &c. 



