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Mr. Evans observed the first flowers of the Moor Park apricot to 

 expand on an open wall in the experimental garden on the 21st of 

 February. The earliest flower produced on the same tree last year 

 opened on the 1st of March. A standard plum also produced flowers 

 on the 22nd of February last. 



Mr. W. Anderson, Tunstall Rectory, Sittingbourne, Kent, likewise 

 forwarded a list of plants observed by him in flower at that place on 

 the 1st of March. He remarks : — " Notwithstanding the mildness of 

 the season, vegetation is much more backward this spring than it was 

 at the same periods during the last two years, by at least a fortnight." 



The following specimens were exhibited from Mr. Kirk, Coventry. — 

 Potamogeton zosteraceus. Bah., from Stokeheath, near Coventry, in 

 its spring and summer states ; Potamogeton zosteraefolius ; Poterium 

 muricatum, from Kenilworth ; Acorus Calamus, Arbury Hall ; Sym- 

 phytum bullatum, Allerley, naturalized ; Secaline caerulea, on soil 

 thrown out from the bottom of a canal, Coventry. 



Mr. M'Nab exhibited flowers of Camellia japonica, var. pcBoniJlora, 

 from a plant growing on the open wall of the Botanic Garden. The 

 plant is ten feet in height, and the spread of its branches is in all 

 fourteen feet. There are at present 560 flower-buds on it. No other 

 variety has been graft;ed upon the plant ; but some of the flowers 

 exhibited were completely white, others completely pink, others with 

 one half white and the other half pink, and some with shades of white 

 and pink in the same petal. 



Messrs. P. Lawson & Son sent for exhibition a collection of beau- 

 tiful and correct wax models, showing the appearance of the various 

 cultivated potatoes, beans, peas, kidney-beans, and onions ; also spe- 

 cimens of woods, so cut and arranged as to exhibit at one glance the 

 transverse and longitudinal sections of each tree, both polished and 

 rough. The models and specimens illustrated the mode in which 

 Messrs. Lawson purpose to supply articles for the Exhibition of 1851. 

 Messrs. Lawson also exhibited a large collection of coloured drawings, 

 in which the varieties of cultivated vegetables were accurately deli- 

 neated. The drawings embraced varieties of turnip, carrot, radish, 

 mangold-wurzel, beet, onion, cabbage, &c. 



Mr. Stark exhibited a large cone of Araucaria Bidwillii, along with 

 seeds, from Moreton Bay. The cone was presented by Mr. Stark to 

 the museum at the Botanic Garden. 



Richard Innes, Esq., 8, Roxburgh Street, was elected a Fellow. 



