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laris. A tender stove plant, of easy culture in a damp hot atmosphere, 

 — *Phycella Herbertiawa ; AmwyWidece. From the Andes, by Mr. M'Rae, 

 in November, 1825. 



No. VI. for August, contains 



1342 to 1348. — *Senecio /ilacinus. " A most lovely shrubby plant, cul- 

 tivated easily in the conservatory, striking freely from cuttings, and well 

 adapted for the flower-garden in the summer." From the garden of the 

 Duke of Northumberland, by Mr. Forest. It is supposed to be a native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope, and to have a near affinity with S. lanceus. — 

 Argemcne mexicana var. ochroleuca. — *Crassula turrita. From the 

 " very rich collection " of C. Law, Esq., Nelson Terrace, Newington Road, 

 now about to be disposed of, and which is " one of the most interesting in 

 the neighbourhood of London." — *Habranthus Anderson/. From Monte 

 Video, to Mr. Mackay of the Clapton nursery, in 1829, by Mr. Anderson, 

 his collector, in whose honour the specific name is given by the Honourable 

 and Reverend W. Herbert ; flowers of a golden yellow, with brownish red 

 streaks on the outside, in April and May. — *Drimia villosa ; Jsphodeleae. 

 A green-house bulb, from the Cape of Good Hope to Mr. Tate of the 

 Sloane Street nursery, in May, 1826. — Collomia heterophylla. — Geum 

 chilense var. grandiflorum. 



No. VI I i for September, contains 

 •- 1349 to 1355. — Ribes sanguineum; Grossulaceae. The district of the 

 Columbia River, on the north-west coast of America, abounds with cur- 

 rants, remarkable for the great beauty of their flowers. One of these is 

 R. aureum. The present subject " is inferior in beauty to no plant in 

 cultivation. It is as hardy as the common currant of the gardens, and 

 bears a vast profusion of bunches of the most lovely purplish-red flowers, 

 during the end of April and beginning of May, remaining in perfection full 

 three weeks." Readily increased by cuttings, either of the new or old 

 wood. Prefers a dry soil, but not peaty, as it is apt to die off in swampy 

 places. " This species was sent by Mr. Douglas to the Horticultural 

 Society; and of such importance do we consider it to the embellish- 

 ment of our gardens, that if the expense incurred by the Horticultural 

 Society in Mi*. Douglas's voyage had been attended with no other result 

 than the introduction of this species, there would have been no ground for 

 dissatisfaction. It is not the number of objects that a public body or an 

 individual accomplishes that creates a claim to public gratitude, so much 

 as their utility ; and, in this view, the gentleman who brought the first live 

 plant of the now common China rose to England deserves his country's 

 gratitude in a greater degree than all the collectors who have sent plants to 

 Kew for the last twenty years. But if we consider that it is not R. sangui- 

 neum alone that the Horticultural Society has introduced through the same 

 active traveller, but that the gigantic pines of North-west America, one of 

 which yields timber superior to the finest larch ; A^cer macrophyllum, the 

 wood of which is as much better than our sycamore as the species is supe- 

 rior in the beauty and amplitude of its foliage ; GaulthenVz Shdllon, an ever- 

 green shrub of great merit ; have all been secured to this country, and dis- 

 tributed in every direction, — to say nothing of the beautiful lupines, pent- 

 stemons, berberries, Oenotheras, and other plants of less moment ; — when 

 all this, we say, is considered, it is not too much to assert that this result 

 alone has justified all the expenditure of the Society's garden from the 

 commencement, and has stamped it with a character of great national 

 utility, which nothing but future mismanagement can shake." 



This species was originally discovered in 1787, by Archibald Menzies, 

 Esq., during his first voyage round the world ; and again, in his second 

 voyage with Van Couver, in 1792. Lime, or lime rubbish, mixed with the 

 soil in which it grows, adds to the profusion and depth of tint of the 

 blossoms. 



