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additions should be made to the houses ; every thing should be sys- 

 tematically arranged and named ; there should be distinct depart- 

 ments, both in the open air, and in houses, for medicinal, economical, 

 and agricultural plants ; nurseries would be required lor the propa- 

 gation of plants for Government exportation, or for public purposes ; 

 gratuitous lectures should be given upon botany in a popular form, 

 but not as a regular academical course ; the most beautiful specimens 

 of the vegetable kingdom should be carefully preserved for exhibition ; 

 in short, the Garden should be perfectly adapted to the three branches 

 of instruction, exhibition, and supply. 



There is no sort of difficulty in effecting all this, and more, except 

 the cost. To render it perfectly effective, would certainly not cost 

 altogether at the utmost above 20,000/. ; 4,000/. a year would cer- 

 tainly pay for the maintenance afterwards, exclusive of repairs, and 

 towards this sum it is not at all improbable that the Apothecaries' 

 Society might be disposed to contribute, provided such an arrange- 

 ment were made as would satisfy them that the objects of their garden 

 at Chelsea, in that case to be abandoned, would be fulfilled. 



(To be continued.) 



ARTICLE II. 



REMARKS ON THE CULTURE, &c, OF PRIMULA SINENSIS. 



UY S. It. P. 



Ever since this little flower dawned in our hemisphere I have been 

 delighted with its beauty, and devoted to its culture, and although we 

 do not see it so prominent in our greenhouses as when its novel 

 beauty first enchanted every lover, of flowers, it will, nevertheless, 

 long hold its place in the estimation of those who can value its simple 

 and persistive elegance in common with the more gorgeous but 

 fleeting ephemera of the day. At a season when all nature seems 

 inert, this little gem enlivens cur dwellings with its cheerful and 

 varied flowers, and with a little attention a succession of bloom may 

 be kept up from September till May ; nor would there be any diffi- 

 cultv in continuing it to perpetuity, but that the hotter months, 

 which can alone developc the full splendour of its more gaudy rivals, 

 strip this modest little flower of its roseate hue. 



