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in abundance j the small fruits, | Veiteh . 
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a high ren is tolerably evident; but these circum- | of ee anen east we eee much 
= not be the cause of the bigh temperature of | Goo , Curra sag orients looking r emark- | for Hemiandra 9 amz. ing; a Ae Medal to 1 8 
the I Er Grain, we are informed on good | ably — “Apples 3 sen are | flowered plant; to — ae ane lag. 
rity, will not ripen at a height of more than 1200 | also well se Se ogre the best yea ror Pears | Jobium among ; to Meseta, Standish and Noble, for theca 
remembra Christmas of that year I uals 2065 Mr. Col Eman “Gastrolobiom. gra W : 
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eome to maturity equally well at a height of 12, sigs feet in my fruit-ho onse, without any consideration of the quan- MeMullen, Esq. 5 oya ih 155 — * to Mr. Over 
in grit Himalaya valleys; yet the former is an island | tities used in the end of summer and the autumn; eag ella; to Mes sra, for 8 müliog K 
of moderate size, at a considerable distance feom the Ae non better. The standards are all in bearing, 4% Noble for Trolline Chinen 0 to Messra, Stani 
mainland of Afriea, and the latter is in the interior of a | and t e kinds r a fair crop on them. I handsome Hardy ‘herbaseous pra a ‘Bert ten new and p 
broad continent: the former is also nearer the equator | can sias * saying that all Pear- trees 1 have ever got Fortune. Some — handsome Montans were 85 say 
about 12°. The eause of this difference is probably | or seen from Mr. Rivers, dae Herts, are, 8 — a — + t seen un te by 
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A weh > | character aince they have — ad N 12 true. 
t the Scotch islands, in the e win 3 have suffered severely in sam pima pe nei urs showed a noble specimen of their "charting Gies, Rollison 
pour sti eae ae ag ardens, Vegetables are excellent; this Broccoli | Java plant, with exceedingly handsome foliage, t 
water of the sea, and a portion of this vapour — regu- season exceeded any I ever saw: the Asparagus, long, ELARGONTUMS were shown in considerable n 
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larly 3 particularly during the night, by — green, and high flavoured. All things being in abund- Turner, Royal Nursery, Slough, ene at erred 5 
colder air, when it gives out heat to the air. This con- ance, let us hail it as “ an omen” that we shall not be | of Orange, Ajax, — a — P rida 
densation therefore prevents the temperature from sink- | „stricken“ with the at — this s — aad at Tes am * Rosem ittle the 
ing to so ee a degree as it commonly does in the drier we shall have what we have had now for “seven | Worth. for nice to Mr. Dobsoa,, Wo 
regions of the south, where no vapour is condensed to | years Stree arth tifuland. immar 3 ni B. Warren, | Mont Bianc, Arethusa 
furnish heat to the air. Is not this suficient to account | Warren’s Grove, County Cork, Ireland. D ae i 2 Purpur 
for the higher winter temperature found in the north- A uiver Medal to Mr. Gaines, attersea, for Aspasia, 
western islands of et et 2 T. H., Manchester May 10. acini SE MER e Mars, Virgin Queen, Grandiflorum, Salamander, Mont Bi 
s > Sariets Bruno, Rosamund, Cecil, Marquis of Stafford, 
ene nage Trees.— The seems, ee — n M. S. Societies, for “Alter 2 — w Mr. J. Robinson, Files 
p. appears to have 8 in cireum- or rman, Pride of t Isles, Ajax, Norah 
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—— breast high, when 29 years. of age. I measure Ro — Boranic, REGENT'S oder Bae May aN —This masiy spiewam, — Forgan de, frre, . Med 
common Oak tree growing in the County Meath, in was favoured bya tine day for its first fare this season, Withou o J. E. Lawrence, Esq. Keni town “foe MaA 
May, 2 wre was then Seon’ t 29 years of age, and oe te is eny 2 the exhibition ioe be said 5 oo — May Queen, Major Domo, ajag DR inas a Mn 
it was, at the height of 2 feet 6 pale 42 inehes and | have been Aone = 3 eee his Culielma, Alonzo, Rosamund, Oce 
r 8 e 0 Royal eres Prince PEA 2 ther members of the Royal | Virgin n Queen, Three collestioas ot jar Pianis 1 * it Sn 
at 5 feet, 325 inchs I have measured it almost every | family, a short time previous to the admission of. — publie. were exhibited by Mr. Wes * * 
y d it has increased annually 12 inch on | As e giants, alarge peppension of those brought together Bray, Regent’s-park; and Mic A — 
the avera METAR now at the same heights 554 inches | en this asion had been previously exhibited to the | Esg 3 d. » Fanci were ` piaia 1 
Horticultural Society at Chiswick, when they bei Bi oan a i amp 
and 45} inches, J, 7. upon We therefore confine our remarks t 1 Sae af y ap. Bavar tp Mr. F., Robinson, fr En 
Nor, orfo olk Island.—In a mber of the“ Household | importa nt of thes subjects now produced for the — — — of Fe ms, — Superb, For” y ava 
Words” is a description ra Norfolk 2 ticularly | In the fine collection of R, pay? and GREENHOUSE PLANTS * et 
ption „par Bradbury, Es q., for Queen Victoria, Ibrabim Pacha, 
interesting to th d furnished by M — * rs s. Lawrence alin ar boni 
eee e bitat ol the cere pretty, me “examples. of Hoven pungent, (2a ormants and, Madame. Mil b 
— Aa oo named fro om this island. “get follow- | Acro Paci . — Pultensea gag and one or two en iii lb Jenny inä Statiaski dul 2 
riptive of the scenery, will, I think, | other .der of that kind.— Mr. Cole o H. Colyer, Esq, Nurserymen: lat, The Large Silver to Me. 
to on found in m een aetion of aqueous vapour in more or — good bearers, an Peaches 
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suspect), who have not read the paper. Lam, h however, | the Willow-leaved Ixora, Dipladenia a splendens, finely flowered, . mg SaR 2 ge e i T 
rather sceptic regards “the delicate Cinnamon, and | Hoya imperialis, with Qdoratum oe —— — a os 8 ‘Sine el 
the stout old English Oak,” growing side by side. Cyrtoceras reflexum, hardly sufficiently expanded, the pretty to Mr. — ram a — a i = 
Dod mu. The first glimpse of Norfolk Island that | rosy-tinged Adenandra fragrans, and other ran in a Magnificum, Reine de Frangais 
l onditien. S Masai: . sent the white ee th ing mended :—Mr B n. a 
; „is made remarkable by a| Pimelea Hendersoni, 25 d Leschenaultia i — D re ber luckheat “io Jen hn 
d y naultia in taedia —— Queen, ‘Dachess CA le, Reine d. Fi 
tree—well known by means of pictures and descriptions in the way of Baxter Bg * if l "brighter than that Statias ent pe 
the grand Norfolk Island Pine; which clothes the | kind; RE : 3 — — — These mene shown by ets 
hills to their summit. 4 Norfolk Island consists of a wnat L group of 20 Srove and 6 Prawns was eee of Acton-lane, The sorts were : W . 
Series of hills and valleys beautifully . — rising by Mr. Speed, of Edmonton, in which we remarked Aipha; E af A “aoe Hebe. 
in green ridges 3 mate an a adenine ble ip plant of Gardenia Fortuni covered with be large reat — 1 me 
in the summit of Mount Pitt, the highest point in — Jouble white fragrant flowers; Coleonema m hrum, a and Miller. tiye 
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= ea feet above the level of the sea.“ — in glowing scarlet heads that could not have measured less ebe, dg ats = os a on “Tura som dower Eon 
f a in ledge of rock which over- than half a . Mr. Green, who was 2d, sent the 0 n — — ryj ter u me Pr 8 
upon an of | rosy variety elexis sesamoides, and a Gardenia Fortuni | 6 1 uf 
hills are all richly dressed in a thick as large and well flowered as that to which we have just Pee t * es (Parkes), |, Dake of Per zal 
lothing of wild shrubs, flowers, and Grapery. On one Fah. ir, fate, 155 3 Rising S Suny Duke of Norfolk Em 1 
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side is a mount covered to the top with the e gigantic | Leschenaultia form nosa ; an Everlasting ; "r nå Pimelea 8 2 N n Robert 
Norfolk Islan on another side n goes a 32 To in a the w way ofa — n t smaller. Cycoley oe ure S Su three ie on ři * 
po ae — oe afer a a short eat A interior of the | Messrs. Carson, Dods, Kinghor rn, . N by | Bragg, Star hee Slows. as acl: 
most 1 t cut; for intrieate these groups. we remarked Exica tubifiora, Polygala sora) Fie toed cca w seedling — — and of 
— faligo is sighted up by Lemon groves, where, h folia ; an a eae a very fine Daviesia Bos coer da, — — bale: Ta > Basil, b — yet 
em i A er Pidielos “deoer, ree habi onora, warm rose, largesp 
descend is san aor Ai — g on ods golden fruit, I | Leschenaultia formosa (very fine), and m ahaaa — with the bes i ; ue 
—— the p 0 ravine, Foliage shuts: me | i N were shown by Messrs. Lane, Green, and Fraser 
t ut they were not near 80 sae hy or well flowered as the 
ay society, there " were at Chiswick, and ther á properti h laek 
magnifieeni), twist 2 ad twirl themselves a —— ne = —— ys mast Of course, they | nor much in flower. A Cineraria, of eee 
The birds th at pereks upon them glitte DY pei i F. e RHODODENDRONS of the Horiiguitaral Society were also seat Å form, but noteied on te e pota some 
or al Society, the time Sir J. Catheart, 
ies ee arrots, beautiful — that od ee between the 8th, when th Lady Hume Campbell. Mr. ner’s Pansy, 
eee N oquets, pigeons. But the 19th, together with the 1 oe eine tad and | aleo badia ceriente ; it has —— . before Mur in 
om and I ascend again, and get among —— — and drO, “Maving (Joseph Fos. n, National, and Monarch, were aiso thom n 
2 quaint aspects of vegetative life as are made by | Oxcuips were numerous and made a a good display, In Mrs. Ang cond some Fat an 
elusters of large Fern trees, rising witha lean some to | Lawrence’s group of 25, we observad a fine iy, 4 a Among ‘Miscrrtawzovs — 2 
this quarter and some to that trees sadly wanting in 1 nd Lacæna | Amoagads, afem Alpine, een een 
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20 feet above the nd. Th m9 1 chroder h 1 e ce NN of f Dendrobin ium | CoowTY er GLOUCESTER! AND ÇurLTEREAM Hanne ug 
grou ese like Grass among | Pierardi latifoliu * lte Peng to C. th 
the Norfolk Island Pi seut € 0 C. B. , Esq., | —The first exhibition of — 5 1 f 28 of ais 
nes, which pile one dark Pm eg ut t Scena littlp Dendrobium Ren ae iaria ‘white. held dat the Old d We elis , in o 
crown upon another—crown above crown, to a height of lipped Zygopetalum rostratum, and Dendrobium age tg —— 2 
1 feet above the soil. From the Feed Goud . ot 2) e came 42 — 7 — i 
ount ich Ih. 3 ; lissor ene ad Lælia majali — poĩut of t be 
eee now reached, I have Norfolk | fne 9 one . an unusually the ni. 5 5 England. It has grown into importance 
can een Rodik; s i scarce banum; Depalelelium,, and mag — wena a 
. commhielis, isleta, | Onley ons Mesara, ol um, and amagnificent | buildings are ch F 
ades, rayis darting’ into 2 p Pas an gloomy de be . bee Benar z the pretty Oncidium | the town, it can be regarded 
‘atid creepers exquisitely. coloured, and the bright | I loomed Acineta it endrobe ante osoa crispum, a | lation of 
green fans of thè Palmetto rising o out ofa fe feoti of; white | were nice pianu or T 5 Gan nous e ‘collection of 15 | continental eid — p 
olvulus ; Guava and Lemon, .a delicious e hippi idendrum * y flowered ; | avenues of trees, T= which 
ae : elear 8 13 — wo n capital ec Condition ; Brassi wW 1 i that 
sky, the sharp outline of ey 9 ht feather of the Ces, colabium gutta tad Gene rassia verru. | We = ember nothing: in — 3 — 
foliage picked out against it. used to be latter — as, however, * sufcientiy otis purpurea ; the | reaching from the High-street' to 
but, once upon a time, there lived i e Oranges; | Woolley had Barkeria etabilis, in charmin, — — of which is truly grand; monid “hav 
wi dea time, there lived in Norfolk Island a tom pulchellum and 1 pn the hee ears Dan 
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who? Oran and Aerid d Cymbidium, gorios This in some doxres spoils the 
for convicts, and caused the ͤ prow thar ane | Messrs. ͤ .. ean’? , | want of preconception when the plan 
— — § 3 ; Cattleya intermedia —— . mong thes tide smilie The Gar ——— — os 
1 9 are now, however, being reintroduced. | spoiled hp. travelling « a, ide ly blossomed, but — extent, ie, eminent 
n a garden belonging to the and divaricatum, 1 the s odoratum, Oncidium oad walk runs 1 — the 
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e, sight, „and smell enjoy a paradise, Delie seli new Orchids, M 25 pi en — Im tress of stupendous growth, In j 
Cinnamon j te bium yof P endro- the eye rests in fr distance upon a beautife pe tenen 
Tea Cöffée — oan * . Oak. Rollisson sen hes a Rink æuopsis — —— > one « aaa any magnificent churches of w meg ding ud 
st iad een 5 uae Ban ana, Figs, Arrow- N way pes pps a a Miltonia from Brazil, in | can boa At the 2 = the Music sci 2 
: j Eron 2 pany with Engish frait fruits — a 10 Yes Ge — —— flowered, were eee io largest room in the kin Kingdom. A 22 
into an ecstatic, transcendental mae The 3 Chitty, i —.— n ae Gass by age ws e pee eo 3 the whole P reflected. 
of a Carrot gets to be — when it grows u is | d'un Ami might be fre e thefavou rite Souvenir | on the e but also upon the 5: 
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nd e Prevost, — Sutheria E; Dew atailles, such liberal inducement for the 
Souvenir ate la Malm phe ar kings, nsis, Blairh, attend. The exhibition was fi netropasiean sb 
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to the palate ; and are ok out daily as rations to the | supplied by mamas 1 — “R bloom 0 „They me mil . . 
evil and tlie good, the convicts — the — But, het secon tA on r, and Chitty, Wien e et Epps; —— rain setting in, and com paing a 
truly, there is neod of — climate koani dees 9 ['eolou olou pse ariety named Alberti » superba, and tw ton This bee, — 
— i han set varieties of tricolor. fi ad | visitors — — 
Island er details of a residence in Norfolk . n in this el rom. pe — — — 8. U. f. Tu nelh, Fadi ot of Ba th, 
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bange ene refer along continuance of 8 he best ete SPECIMENS consisted of a huge —— 1 d 2 — eropbylla, 
— ä tee Reales bast dol Rg I from Mr. Lay bank; Pimelea H — * py a ks i by Bets 
— mia ere, an bers. Fraser ; a splendidiy bloomed Pree Pena flor 3 A sans 5 fi; and 
iis eo ‘showers, and, with very = — Norris; tee prne from Mr. Kin : riba, — be i sate 8 4 
ing but genial May weather. capital Leschenanitia formosa, from Mr, Willa, , 12 ie 1 58 E tea e 
we r Miss Traill, of Bromley. eee — — 
oe fruit set; all sorts} New Pranzs, len l 
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