Foreign Notices : — Italy. 



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must be kept boiling a little. Then add 60 parts of sand, 30 of small gravel, 

 and 6 of slacked lime. 



No. 2. Take 1 part of mineral pitch, I part of dry rosin, 7 parts of chalk, 

 2 parts of sand, and boil them as before — H. L. L. June, ISll. 



Art. II. Foreign Notices. 



ITALY. 



Gardening. — In my last, dated the 9th of January (see the Magazine for 

 March 1841, p. 182.), I promised to send you a list of the plants introduced 

 into Lombardy during the past year (1840). This I am now enabled to do, 

 through tiie kindness of Signer Casoretti, the indefatigable director of the 

 garden of the Villa Traversi, at Desio, who favoured me with the following 

 catalogue, the greater number of the species in which he himself intro- 

 duced. 



^schynanthus coccineus. 



Alstroemeria BarclajY/wa, Neillii tri- 

 color. 



Amphicome argiita. 



Andromeda angusta, spec, nova, 

 Drummondi tetragona. 



Anigozanthos coccinea. 



Vdnda Gomesii. 



Azalea indica var. plures, pontica 

 /iyacinth//?orr/. 



Berber'is orientalis, spec, nova, Buenos 

 Ayres. 



Byttnena brasiliensis. 



Camelh'a j. Aimable d'Amerique, 

 Cunningham/a, Perfection, Henry 

 Favre, Meteor, Nic61s/«, Palmer's 

 perfection, peregrina, Pratt's seed- 

 ling, Striped major, ThompsoniaH« 

 superba, Wallichw, Washington, 

 Weard«, and many others. 



Cereus Hitchins/f hybridus, Hitchin- 

 sii speciosus multiplex, oxygonus, 

 pentalophus. 



Chorozema varium. 



Clematis florida Sieboidii D. Don, 

 cserulea Lindl. 



Coboe'a stipularis. 



Crinuni angustum. 



Dacrydium elatum. 



Deutzirt corymbosa, sanguinea. 



Dianthus splendidissimus, 



£pimedium i^iolaceum, macranthum. 



Epiphyllum rhombeum. 



Eriostemon 6uxifdlius, cuspidatus. 



Erythrina pumila. 



-Euphorb/a meloformis, spldndens. 



Fuchsia corymbiflora, formosa, ele- 

 gans, fuigens, grandiflora, pendula, 

 sahcifoiia, versicolor. 



Gesnera oblonga. 



Grevillea Mangles/i, robusta. 



Haematdxylon campechianum. 



i/ibiscus splendens. 



Hemerocallis Sieboldzawa. 



Hotela japonica 



lUicium religiosimi. 



J'asminum, species nova from China. 



Leycesteria formosa. 



Z/ilium eximium, japonicum, super- 

 bum. 



Liriodendron Tulipifera heterophylla. 



Magnolia Hartierens ? rotundifolia ?. 



Mahon/a fascicularis, glumacea. 



Mammillaria crinita, echinata, glochi- 

 diata, tenuis. 



Mandevillea suaveolens. 



Musa Cavendlshii, Dacca. 



Keliimbium album, thibetianum. 



iVymphas^a Lotus, rubra, versicolor. 



Opuntia glaucophylla, imbricata, 

 Kleinia. 



Pxonia tenuifolia fl. pleno. 



Penstemon frutescens, bicolor, genti- 

 ayioides. 



Phlomis Russellia«a. 



Plumier/a angustifolia. 



Potentilla Hopwoodf«Ha. 



Pronaya elegans. 



i?hododendron arboreum, ten new 

 varieties. 



Ribes 



inebrians, musco- 



speciosum, 



sum. 

 iSalvia patens. 

 Solandra guttata. 

 Tweedia ca;rulea. 

 Thysanotus elatior. 

 Tradescant/a grandiflora, splendens. 

 Ferbena, five new varieties. 

 Wistaria Backhousia«a, floribunda. 

 Yucca abyssinica, flaccida. 

 Xanthosia rotundifolia. 

 Besides a great many more mentioned 



in my last letter. 



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