BOTANICAL NEWS. 
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On the farm of Charles M. Horton, in Little River District, Wake Co., N. 
Carolina, there is an apple-tree, says the Philadelphia ' Gardener's Monthly,' 
which is said to be the largest in the State of North Carolina. " The fruit is 
most excellent ; of the variety here designated ■ June Sweeting.' I have had it 
carefully measured. It is, one foot from the ground, eleven feet in circum- 
ference ; at the first branch — eight feet from the ground — nine feet nine inches, 
and fifty-seven feet through. The limbs cover a circle of fifty-seven feet in 
diameter." 
Dr. F. Mueller, of Melbourne, prints in the Proceedings of the Royal Society 
of Tasmania, a paper on Kippist's genus Acradenia, which lie transfers from 
the Boroniaceons tribe of Rutacece to Xanthoxylea. The same eminent 
botanist has also done good service by revising the Epacridere, and giving us 
the result in his invaluable c Fragmenta.' He relies principally upon the acti- 
vation of the corolla as a primary character for the definition of genera. 
At a Congregation, on Thursday, Nov. 14, a grace was offered to the Senate 
of the University of Cambridge, " authorizing the grant of £300 from the Worts 
Endowment for Travelling Bachelors to Marmaduke Lawson, B.A., of Trinity, 
towards defraying his expenses in accompanying the Expedition for the Explo- 
ation of Palestine, to collect specimens in the botanical and zoological depart- 
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hi the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania we find a list of the 
leafing, (lowering and fruiting of a few standard plants in the Royal Society's 
Gardens, which shows the bearing of some of our garden plants at the Anti- 
podes : 
December 12th.— Common Privet commencing to flower. 
loth.— First bunch of Red Currants ripe. 
20th.— First bunch of Black Currants ripe. 
25th,— Melia Azedarach commencing to ilower. 
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10th.— Veronica august if olia in full flower. 
11th.— First ripe Apricot gathered (Royal). 
\St\u—Gr evil lea robusta in full Ilower. 
18th.— First Jargonelle Pears gathered. 
25ih.—Catalpa syringifolia in flower. 
30th.— Black Mulberries commencing to ripen. 
Teaches commencing to ripen (George I\ .'. 
Kerry Pippin Apple commencing to ripen. 
11th.— Windsor Pear commencing to ripen. 
16th.— Bon Chretien Pear commencing to ripen. 
16th. 
26th. 
Greengage Plum commencing to ripen. 
Ash commencing to shed seed. 
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I2tk— Coes' Golden-drop Plum commencing to ripen. 
Uth.— Seeklc Pear commencing to ripen. 
1 5 t h. —Tips of Kim turning yellow. 
16th.— Horse-chestnut leaves turning brown. 
