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Satchell, for celery, I3s.,4d.; Mr. Brookes, for strawberries, 155. 4a?.; 

 Mr. Brookes, for flowers, 15s. 4d.; Mr. R. Smith, for flowers, 13s. 4d. ; 

 Rev. T. B. Turner, for wax, l/. 6s. 8d. The Society granted Mr. Mac- 

 fadgen the use of their rooms for botanical lectures. (Copied from the 

 Jamaica R. Gazette by Y. B., June 21.) 



Botanic Garden of Mexico, [fig. 50.) — An eloquent description of this gar- 

 den is given by Humboldt. When Mr. Bullock saw it in 1825, the pension 

 of the curator was about to be discontinued from the exigences of the state. 

 It is situated in one of the courts of the vice-regal palace; and, though in the 

 centre of a large and populous city, the plants seemed in perfect health 

 and vigour. It is laid out with paved walks, bordered with ornamental 

 pots of flowers, and shaded with creepers trained over them on trellis- 

 work. Walks diverge from a large stone basin in the centre, constantly 

 supplied by a fountain with water ; which, in small rivulets, is employed to 

 irrigate every part of the garden. All the fruits both of Europe and 

 India flourish in it. Mr. Bullock brought home models of most of the 

 curious sorts, which are exhibited in his museum. He also brought a 

 variety of seeds, and various plants, which were chiefly presented to the 





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Horticultural Society, or disposed of to Mr. Tate, of the Sloane Street 

 Nursery. (Bullock 1 's Mexico, p. 182.) 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



A Nursery Garden has been established in the city of Caraccas, by 

 Dr. Fanning, an American, for the purpose of collecting the most useful 

 and ornamental plants of Colombia. He is also forming a botanic garden 

 in the vicinity, under the patronage of Bolivar. (Neiv York Paper?) 



Orchideous Plants of Chile. — In this country, which, in the eyes of 

 botanical geographers, forms a vegetative region of itself, which extends 

 through 20° of southern latitude, and which has a surface varied with all 

 the irregularity of mountains covered with eternal snow, rich valleys, and 

 extensive plains, no more than three species of orchidese are at this moment 

 recorded to exist. (Lindley, in Brand's Journal of Science, Mar. 1827, p. 45.) 



Botany of Chile. — From the copious materials relating to the vege- 

 tation of Chile which exist in this country, much information of the most 

 important nature is to be derived ; but from no source so extensively, 

 perhaps, as from the collections formed for the Horticultural Society by 

 Mr. James M'Rae. (Lindley, in Brand's Journal of Science, Mar. 1827, 

 p. 44.) 



Desiderata from South America. — Doctor Hamilton of Fareham has 

 circulated a paper, with a view to procure seeds, flowers, or leaves of 

 .the following plants: — 1. The Cow-tree, Palo de Vaca, or Arbol de 



