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tracted great numbers of visitors. Mr. Feast's plant is re- 

 markably vigorous, some of the leaves having measured six 

 feet in diameter, and so stout as to hold up a man weighing 

 150 pounds ! 



Mr. Cope's plant is now in its decade. It has done bloom- 

 ing, and is perfecting a quantity of seed, from which plenty 

 of plants will be produced to take the place of the present one. 



We trust another year that we may have this superb lily 

 in flower in our own collection. By the kindness of Mr. 

 Cope, we were supplied with a plant ; but it was so badly 

 injured in its transportation here that it did not recover. 



We hope Mr. Cope will add the new lily (A^ymphag^a 

 gigantea, described at 267) from Australia, of a deep purplish 

 blue color, with flowers a foot in diameter, grown in the 

 same tank with the Victoria ; the contrast would be splendid. 

 Seeds, we believe, are offered for sale in London at £ 1 each. 



New Tree Peonies, sent home by Mr. Fortune. — The 

 Gardeners' Journal copies our entire article on herbaceous 

 paeonies, in our late number, with some additional remarks 

 on the importance of their introduction into English collec- 

 tions, where they are yet somewhat rare ; and in conclusion 

 annexes a list of the Moutans, as Dr. Lindley has named the 

 tree kinds, which have been sent home from Canton by Mr. 

 Fortune. They are in the collection of Messrs. Standish & 

 Noble, and will soon be offered for sale. If they are all that 

 the descriptions would represent, they will be great acqui- 

 sitions to this magnificent tribe of shrubs, already rendered 

 doubly valuable by the labors of the French and Belgian 

 florists, who have produced some very remarkable seedlings. 

 We shall look forward to the introduction of these new kinds 

 into our gardens with great pleasure : — 



*' The brief descriptions given below are from the notes 

 taken in Messrs. Standish & Noble's nursery, when the plants 

 were in flower. As yet they have received no name. True, 

 the Chinese names accompanied them ; but, of course, it 

 would be of little service to retain their nomenclature for 

 every-day use in English gardens. We perceive, by a recent 

 catalogue of the nurserymen above named, that they hope, in 



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