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with him four boxes, — two containing dried specimens, and 

 two, bulbs, pine cones, and other seeds ; and more packages, 

 which were despatched from Cahfornia before him, are ex- 

 pected every day. From seeds previously received from him, 

 the following are growing in the Society's garden : — Ceanothus 

 papillosus, dentatus, and rigidus ; Pinus Benthamia and 

 californica ; Zauschner/a californica ; the California horse- 

 chestnut, (Pa via californica,) said to be sweet; a Scarlet 

 Lily; a female Garrya eliptica ; Z/aurus regalis, a sweet 

 evergreen laurel ; a Prunus, with glaucous leaves, and said 

 to have pendulous flowers ; several evergreen oaks ; Abronia 

 umbellata, a pink flowered trailing plant, an inhabitant of 

 the sea-side, said to be finely scented in the evening ; a Me- 

 sembrydnthemum, and various others. 



Mr. Fortune has resigned the curatorship of the Botanic 

 Garden, Chelsea, and has engaged with the East India Com- 

 pany to proceed to China, for the purpose of procuring tea 

 plants and seeds for their tea plantations, in the Himalayas. 

 Mr. Thomas Moore succeeds Mr. Fortune. 



The neiD Tree Pceonies brought home by Mr. Fortune^ have 

 mostly flowered the past spring in the garden of the Horti- 

 cultural Society, and Dr. Lindley gives the following account 

 of them: — Of Mr. Fortune's Moutan pseonies, planted near 

 the Council Room, one flowered in 1847, and was named picta. 

 It is described in the Journal oi xYie Society, as "having 

 leaves of a dull bluish green," not veined or tinted with 

 purple, and as having flowers the size of P. Moutan rosea, 

 and with something of its appearance, but more semi-double. 

 The petals are stated to have a rose-ground color, streaked, 

 stained, and veined with rich deep rose towards the edges, es- 

 pecially on the inside; rather ragged at the points, something 

 in the manner of parrot tulips. It is perhaps as hardy as 

 P. Moutan rosea, and very handsome." This year, the fol- 

 lowing have flowered and have received names : — P. Moutan 

 globosa; this proves to be a fine large white sort, very dou- 

 ble, and having the base of the petals stained with large 

 blotches of deep purple ; it is stated to resemble P. Moutan 

 joapaveracea. P. M. violacea ; this is said to be a distinct 

 and fine variety, with deep lilac, nearly single flowers ; the 

 foliage deep green ; it is considered to be quite new. P. M. 



