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Ashton-under-Lyne. 

 E. Clougli, Victoria Street, Eyecroft. 

 Whitehead, Dukinfield. 



Ijlccles. 

 Mr. John Shaw, gardener. 



Prestioich and Neighbourhood. 

 James Percival, Broughton Grove Works, Bury New Koad, 



Hon. Sec. to the Prestwich Botanical Society. 

 William Horsfield, Besses oth Barn. 



Olossop. 

 J. Ollerenshaw, Dinting Vale. 



Solmfirth. 

 Firth Hardy, Druid's HaU. 



London. 

 W. Marshall, Esq., 11, Old Fish-street. 

 Sidney Beisly, Esq., the Cedars, Lawrie Park, Sydenham. 

 Mrs. Beisley, the Cedars, Lawrie Park, Sydenham. 



Norfolh. 

 Eev. E. Simons, Ovington, Watton. 



THREE DAYS' BOTANIZING AT THE BEGINNING OF APRIL. 



(From a Correspondent.) 



I started on the 1st of April for Andover, drawn in that 

 direction by the promises of Murray's ' Handbook for Hants/ 

 which bore witness of Daphne Mezereon as growing abundantly 

 in the woods in that neighbourhood, and particularly in an Oak 

 copse, the remains of what was formerly Harewood Forest, and 

 still called by that name. I left this old country town, now no 

 longer resonant with the passage of post-horses, and took the 

 Stockbridge road. The country is part of the chalk plateau of 

 Hampshire, Berkshire, and Wiltshire, the " patria," as Cony- 

 beare and Phillips express it, of all the chalk hills, the North and 

 South Downs, the Dorsetshire hills, and the great range which 

 terminates in Flamborough Head, all being a kind of claws 

 thrown out from different angles of this body. Plateau though - 

 it be, it is as little of a level as Salisbury Plain itself, being all 

 hill and dale, slope and hollow. The part immediately round 

 Andover must once have been (in American phrase) a " rolling'' 



