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"Mr. Sherwood states that he has grown it in heath mould, 

 commonly called peat earth, and shifted or repotted it every 

 spring before commencing to grow; he has generally kept it 

 during summer in an exhausted hot-bed, shading from the hot 

 sun, but exposing it at night for the purpose of receiving the 

 dew; when it became too large for the hot-bed, he introduced 

 it into a pit under glass shading as before, when in this moist 

 atmosphere it grew luxuriantly; — during the last winter he kept 

 it in the hot-house. The flower stem commenced its growth 

 about the first of December last, making its greatest growth in 

 midwinter, and began to bloom about the first of June. 



"Mr. Sherwood is entitled to great credit for the skill and 

 patience with which he has cultivated and reared this rare and 

 beautiful plant. It is the first specimen imported into the 

 United Slates, and the first that has flowered. " 



Jl^gave americdna. — An old plant of this species, in the col- 

 lection of General Van Rensselaer, of Albany, is about flower- 

 ing. The flower stem is now shooting up rapidly, and will 

 soon begin to open its blossoms. It is to be exhibited in Al- 

 bany for the benefit of the Orphan Asylum of that city. It is 

 stated that this plant had been upwards of half a century in this 

 collection of plants. 



J\lr. Hartweg, the botanical collector. — Advices from Mr. 

 Hartweg have been received down to the 2Slh of '.Tanuary: 

 he was then at the foot of the Chimborazo. He has made 

 some rich collections in that vicinity, which "include several 

 vacciniaceous plants, probably Thiebaudias, and possibly Ma- 

 cleanift and Cavendishta, many bulbs, between eighty and 

 ninety kinds of seed, and between two and three hundred spe- 

 cies of dried plants." These had all been despatched to Lon- 

 don on the 1st of January, and have probably arrived some 

 time since. At Cuenca he had fallen in with some beautiful 

 species of Berbcris, with small leaves and large flowers, a gi- 

 gantic TropcE^olum, with pale yellow flowers, and enormous 

 seeds, ascending to the summit of the tallest trees. ( Gard. 

 Chron.) 



JVew) Variety of the Cereus. — Mr. W. Chalmers, gardener 

 to George Pepper, Esq., Philadelphia, has raised a beautiful 

 Cereus between theC speciosissimus and Epiphyllum Acker- 

 mann: it has the rich tinge in its petals of the C. speciosissi- 

 mum, and possesses much of the habit of Epiphyllum Acker- 

 manu. A description of it from one of our correspondents 



