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the whole county of Kent, and actually may affirm that there is not within 

 twenty miles around. The land is so rich, so capital, and so yielding, in the 

 garden here, that it requires but little manure ; and the part in which this 

 remarkable and curious broccoli plant has grown we have not manured for 

 very many years, and for the last twenty years I think I may safely venture 

 to affirm that there has been no manure whatsoever thrown upon it. It 

 may be proper to add, that the part of the garden in which this plant stands 

 is by no means exposed either to the ah - or to the sun. Indeed, the whole 

 garden in this respect labours under immense disadvantage, as it strikes me, 

 as it is surrounded by numberless trees, such as oak and elm, beech and 

 fir. — S. P. April 23. 



Remarkable Crops produced upon a very fertile spot in the Vale of York. — 

 Upon land reserved for the autumnal crop of potatoes the preceding- 

 autumn, I planted brown Bath lettuce between the spot or rows where the 

 potatoes were to be hereafter planted, and every two yards I planted a gar- 

 den bean in the potato row itself. The neighbouring markets were supplied 

 with early salads. The beans having such plenty of air were very firm and 

 prolific. Secondly, Scotch cabbage crops ; two early York, or sugar-loaf 

 cabbages in the row, between each Scotch plant, and a full row of the early 

 ones between each Scotch row, alternately. Another : — oats, barley, &c, 

 drilled and cross-drilled into squares, then in the middle of every square a 

 Scotch cabbage plant. I might name various other trials, but am afraid to 

 trouble you further; and I have endeavoured to shorten my letter so much 

 that I fear I shall be with difficulty understood. — C. P. York, May 5. 1830. 



Naturalisation of Exotics, fyc. — The Canna indica, Blete'a hy&cmtbina, 

 iinum arboreum, flourish and flower with me in the open border, without 

 any other shelter than that afforded by a south wall. The former produces 

 plenty of ripe seeds, and has increased so much as to prove troublesome. — 

 C. P. York, May 5. 1830. 



Seeds from Carthagena. — Sir, I have only time to enclose two or three 

 seeds of the small collection received by the Plover from Carthagena : — 

 No. 1. El Madrono (of which I received but three seeds) ; a tree of Popayan, 

 bearing, as Mr. Charles Hauswolf acquaints Mr. Watts, one of the most 

 delicious fruits of South America. It grows almost exclusively about the 

 city of Caty, where the temperature ranges from 75 to 80° Fahr. Con- 

 servatory ? — No. 2. Same paper, El Mechoacan, 6 Rhubarbaro bianco ; a 

 convolvulus, with a purgative root. — No. 3. El Barbero ; a convolvulus, 

 with a pale pink flower. Vicinity of Turbaco. Stove ? — No. 4. Quito To- 

 mata, £blanum Humboldtii ? fruit from 12 to 14 oz. Conservatory? — No. 5. 

 LaBahagua; unknown. A spreading shrub, with pinnate leaves; leaflets 

 oblong; flowers in a pyramidal spike, of a rich yellow. Tree 8 ft. high. — 

 W. Hamilton. Plymouth, June 3. 1830. 



We have sent the seeds to Mr. Mackay of the Clapton Nursery, who 

 will no doubt report on them, and distribute the plants raised. - — Cond. 

 June 10. 



SCOTLAND. 



New or Rare Plants which have lately flowered in the Neighbourhood of 

 Edinburgh, and chiefly in the Royal Botanic Garden ; communicated by 

 Dr. Graham, Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh, to 

 Jameson's Philosophical Journal for July : — 



Brachystelma crispum. " Several bulbs of this plant were collected in 

 Southern Africa, by Mr. Bowie, and sent, with many other roots, in spring, 

 1829, to Mr. Neill, in whose stove, at Canonmills, it flowered in May last. 

 It approaches Brachystelma spathulatum." Rot. Reg. t. 1113. 



Hybrid Calceolarias. " Mr. Morrison, gardener to Lord President Hope, 

 at Granton, being aware that several of the finest species of Calceolaria 

 were shy in producing seed, suspected that this defect might be corrected 

 by applying the pollen of certain kinds to the stigmata of others ; and he first 

 has had the merit of presenting to the florist, hybrids thus produced, whicls 



