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Art. V. Floricnltvral and Botanical Notices of New 

 Fla7its, figured 171 foreign jteriodicals ; with Remarks on 

 those recently introduced to., or 07'iginated in, American 

 gardens., and additional inform,ation upon plants already 

 in cidtivation. 



JEduKuxls^s Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Gar- 

 den and Shrubbery. Each number containing from six to 

 eight plates ; with additional miscellaneous information, 

 relative to new plants. In monthly numbers ; 35. plain, 

 3s, &d. colored. 



Paxton''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. 



The Gaj'dener'' s Chronicle, a stamped newspaper of Rural 

 Economy and General News. Edited by Prof. Lindley. 

 Weekly. Price ^d. each. 



Floricultural Notices. — Since our arrival in England, but 

 little opportunity has as yet been afforded us, to inspect 

 many collections of plants; the very opposite direction in 

 which many of the best nurseries and gardens are situated 

 from each other, renders it no easy task to give them each 

 a visit. No time has, however, been lost upon our hands ; 

 we have already seen enough to fill several of our pages; 

 but as our object is now to add only a few notes upon new 

 and interesting plants, we shall have less to say than at a 

 future time, when we have seen all that the metropolis 

 offers worthy of notice. There is, just now, a dearth of 

 novelty in the floricultural world ; excepting the Orchida- 

 ceae, in which there is always soma new species developing 

 itself, very few interesting objects are to be found. The 

 seeds sent home by Mr. Fortune, from China, have proved 

 trashy. In a collection which he forwarded last spring, 

 and which were all planted by Mr. Gordon with much 

 care, and the young seedlings brought forward in frames 

 and the hothouse, the greater part have proved the com- 

 monest annuals; in fact, some of them, with us, mere weeds. 

 Mr. Gordon showed us a whole row of yellow and red 



