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information, we learn that the seedlings of the Narcissus tribe rarely 

 flower until the seventh year. 



' Garden Hints for Amateurs.' 



' Visits to Remarkable Gardens ; — Redleaf, W. Wells, Esq.' 



* Professional and Moral Training, hints addressed to young gar- 

 deners ; by Mr. W. P. Keane, author of the ' Beauties of Surrey and 

 Middlesex'.' 



' Notes, cultural, critical and suggestive.' 



* Horticultural Society' and 'National Floricultural Society,' giving 

 an account of the meetings of the former held May 1 and 20, and of 

 the latter held May 8 and 22. 



Botanical Society of London. 



Friday, June 6, 1851. J. D. Salmon, Esq., in the chair. 



The following donations were announced : — 



The ' Gardener's Magazine of Botany ;' presented by the Editors. 

 'Pharmaceutical Journal' and 'Transactions;' presented by the So- 

 ciety. ' Journal of the Statistical Society of London ;' presented by 

 the Society. 



The continuation of Mr. Daniel Stock's jjaper ' On the Botany of 

 Bungay, Suffolk,' was read. — G. E. D. 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh . 



Thursday, May 15, 1851. Professor Balfour, President, in the 

 chair. 



In taking the chair Professor Balfour stated, that having received 

 inquiries from various quarters as to a criticism which had appeared 

 of the second edition of his Manual of Botany, in which several 

 glaring errors have been exposed, he considered that he was called 

 upon, as holding the office of President of the Botanical Society, to 

 take the opportunity of slating that he had not edited this edition. 

 He therefore begged to assure the Society that he was not responsible 

 for the form in which the work had appeared, nor for any inaccuracies 

 that might occur in it. 



The following donations were announced : — ' Botanical Gazette,' 



