100 Floriculttiral and Botanical Notices. 



tional miscellaneous information, relative to new Plants. In montlily 

 numbers ; 3s. plain, 3*. (id. colored. 



Paxtoix's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants. Each 

 number containing four colored plates. Monthly, 2s. 6d. each. Edited 

 by J. Paxton, gardener to the Duke of Devonshire. 



Tlie Gardener's Chronicle, a stamped newspaper of Rural Economy and 

 General News. Edited by Prof. Lindley. Weekly. Price 6d. each. 



Botanical and Floricidtural Intelligence. Botanical Col- 

 lector to China. — The conclusion of hostilities between 

 England and China seems likely to open new and vast re- 

 sources for the introduction of plants. The London Hor- 

 ticultural Society, ever ready to undertake any new enter- 

 prise which may result in the accession of new and beau- 

 tiful plants, have already, as we learn from the Gardener'' s 

 Chronicle, resolved upon taking immediate advantage of 

 the opportunity which is now opened, to send out a collec- 

 tor. Mr. Robert Fortune, the present able superintendent 

 of the hot-house department of the Society's garden, has 

 been selected for the important mission, and has probably 

 ere this embarked upon his voyage. It is gratifying to learn 

 that this expedition has been confided to so able a person 

 as Mr. Fortune. During his absence, the duties of his 

 place will be filled by Mr. James Donald, from the Duke 

 of Devonshire's place at Chatsworth. 



Among the acquisitions which will probably be made, are 

 a large number of hardy plants for our gardens. The 

 cold province of Fokien, the black tea country of the Chi- 

 nese, is the garden of China; it was thence that the beau- 

 tiful Wistaria (Glycine) siinensis was procured; there is 

 to be found the source of many of our finest camellias and 

 azaleas ; and from the same part of the Celestial Empire 

 are to be had multitudes of beautiful things, authentic rep- 

 resentations of which have been sent to the London Hor- 

 ticultural Society, and exist in their collection of drawings. 

 Moreover, in the more northern provinces, are other garden 

 productions, not less worthy of note : of which the Pekin 

 peaches, weighing two pounds, melting and delicious, may 

 be taken as an example. Among the drawings of flowers 

 which have been received from China, are those of a yel- 

 loio and a purple tree pa^ony ; and stories have been current 



