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monritains of the interior, in the province of Chekiang, where 

 I thought it even more ornamental in its natural state, amongst 

 the hedges, than when cultivated in the fairy gardens of the 

 Mandarins." 



Mr. Fortune svipposed it might prove hardy in England, 

 but advised cultivators to winter it in frames or greenhouses 

 until a trial had been made of its hardiness. It has now 

 been growing in our collections three years, and it has proved 

 to be as hardy in our climate as the azalea. It is a rapid and 

 vigorous grower, and the first year the young half-ripened 

 shoots are partially killed by the winter ; but the second 

 season, when the wood is stronger and well ripened, it is 

 perfectly hardy, and the prominent buds, which are formed 

 early in the autumn, in profusion at the axil of every leaf, 

 expand as early in the spring as the double flowering almond, 

 before a single leaf makes its appearance ; and as they are 

 of a deep yellow, pendent, and about the size of the Halesia, 

 they form the gayest ornaments of the shrubery in April and 

 May, when so few flowering shrubs expand their blossoms. 

 The leaves are oblong, lanceolate, serrated near the point, of a 

 deep rich green tint, and emit a slight balsamic order. It is 

 one of the finest acquisitions to our limited number of early 

 flowering shrubs. Our engraving [fig. 5) gives a handsome 

 representation of its habit of blooming, the size of the leaf, 

 &c. It grows freely from layers or cuttings, and flourishes 

 best in a dry or well drained locality, where the roots are not 

 subject to over saturation in winter. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General JSI'otices. 



The Mandarin Orange. — Few plants better merit the notice of culti- 

 vators than this variety of the Citrus family. As an ornamental plant, its 

 recommendations are of the highest order; its pure glossy foliage, its 

 snow-white, deliciously fragrant blossoms, its dwarf and somewhat formal 

 growth, and the profusion of green or yellow fruit, with which it is loaded 

 during nine months of the year, claim for it a place in every collection. 

 But it is principally as a fruit-bearing plant that I am now about to recom- 



