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he agreed to get them at one dollar a plant. This was agreed 

 to, and the plants delivered in good order and sent to England. 

 This was in the fall of the year, when the plants were out of 

 flower. When he again visited Shanghae, in April, he intend- 

 ed to send his old friend to tSou-Chou again for another lot, 

 with an agreement that they should be in flower, in order that 

 he might see the colors. "One morning, however, as I was 

 going out into the country, a short distance from Shanghae, 

 I was surprised by meeting a countryman with a load of 

 Moutans in full bloom. The flowers were very large and fine, 

 and the colors were dark pwyle, lilac, and deep rec/, kinds of 

 which the very existence had been doubted in England, and 

 which are never seen at Canton." Mr. Fortune further states, 

 that, with the aid of Dr. Lockhart, a Chinese scholar, they 

 soon found out the name of the moutan district, and, as the 

 state of the roots of the plants showed that they had L "^en out 

 of the ground only an hour or two, they thought the distance 

 could only be a few miles, a surmise which they afterwards 

 found to be correct. This was the place where the nursery- 

 man procured his plants, for Mr. Fortune ascertained there were 

 none in the vicinity of Sou-Chou. He therefore visited the 

 ' ' moutan district daily during the time the different plants 

 were in bloom, and secured some most striking and beautiful 

 kinds for the Horticultural Society." 



A beautiful 7iew shrub called Wegelia rosea, with rose-col- 

 ored flowers, from Northern China, where the thermometer 

 falls within a few degrees of zero, and where the ground is 

 covered with snow. 



A drawing of it is appended to this number which we shall 

 notice. It will probably prove a fine hardy shrub in our cli- 

 mate. Many other fine things were introduced, of which the 

 following are named, besides many already noticed in our 

 pages : — 



Azalea obtiisa, Rose, double white climbing, 

 ovata dark red climbing, 



squamata, Scutellaria, sp. a fine herbaceous plant 

 4 sp. from north with blue flowers, 



of China. Dielytra spectabilis, 



Daphne Fortun?, Camelh'a hexangularis, (true), 



Forsythia viridissima, Mandarin orange, (true,) 



Gardenia florida, var. Fortum, Quam-quat, a curious small orange. 



