226 Domestic Notices : — England. 



at Florence, This kind is so much more hardy than the sweet oranges, 

 that our correspondent is persuaded it will thrive as well in the open ground 

 in Devonshire, Cornwall, or the south of Hampshire, as it does at Florence. 

 We have accordingly sent the seeds to the following gardeners, with a 

 request that they will attend to a paper on the subject of this variety of 

 orange, which our correspondent has promised for a future Number ; and 

 that they will communicate to this Magazine their success with the seeds. 



Devo7ishire. M. H. Saunders, gardener to E. P. Bastard, Esq. M. P., 

 Kitley ; Mr. H, Dalgleish, gardener to John Milford, Esq., Conver, near 

 Exeter; W. Hamilton, Esq. M.D., Plymouth, two packets. 



Corniuall. Mr. Booth, A.L.S., gardener to Sir Charles Lemon, Carclew, 

 near Truro, two packets ; the Rev. J. Lakes, Liskeard Vicarage. 



Hampshire. Mr. Page and Mr. Rogers, nurserymen, Southampton. 



The letters to all the above friends were despatched on Feb. 11. 1830. 



The seeds of Pinus Pinea, received from the same correspondent, wei-e 

 sent to Mr. Lakes, Mr. Gorrie, Mr. Brooks of Flitwick, and Mr. BaUlie of 

 the Dropmore Pinetum. — Cond. 



A new Species of Cdnna. — I have only time to enclose a few seeds of a 

 Canna which I received, by the last packet, from Dr. Bancroft, who had them 

 from Carthagena. From his account it is a new and magnificent species, 

 and is known to the inhabitants by the name of Bijao or Bishao, a name 

 common to the heliconias, musas, &c., and which has been adopted as a 

 trivial name for the Heliconia Bihdi. I have, therefore, provisionally 

 named this the Canna Bihdi, as sufficiently distinguishing it from all the 

 other known species. Dr. Bancroft, in his letter of the 14th of last June, 

 says: — " They (the seeds) come, I believe, from the neighbourhood of 

 Carthagena ; and I learn that a lady, who recently returned thence, has 

 brought a plant of it, and is desirous of giving it to me. All I learn be- 

 sides this is, that it produces a large leaf, which the natives use for many 

 purposes." And, again, in a letter of the 2d of July, with a farther supply 

 of seeds (those now sent), he says : — "I find the seeds which I sent you 

 lately, which I suspected to belong to some species of Canna, are in all 

 probability of that genus ; but it appears to be a nondescript species. They 

 call it Bijao, and some Bishao ; and it is much cultivated on account of its 

 leaves, of which loads are daily brought to Carthagena and other places : 

 they are 6 ft. or 7 ft. long, and proportionally wide, and have the pecu- 

 liarity of being very pliable, without splitting, as the leaves of all other 

 cannas (he might have added heliconias and musas) do ; for which reason 

 they are in constant use to pack things up in, instead of brown paper, as 

 with us." Such is the account given by Dr. Bancroft of this interesting, 

 and, I doubt not, splendid plant, which will, I am confident, prove no small 

 acquisition to our collections ; and which I hope to see shortly figured and 

 described in the Botanical Magazine. I have sent a few seeds to the Li- 

 verpool garden, and hope they will attract the attention of the able and 

 philanthropic Roscoe, whose labours have already been so usefully du-ected 

 to the Cannese and Scitaminese. — W. Hamilton. 15. Oxford Place, Plymouth, 

 Aug. 28. 1830. 



We have given the seeds of Canna Bihdi, Bajagua from Arjona, and 

 Acelga ? (Peta/agifolia) to our neighbour Mr. Campbell, than whom no man 

 can raise them better, or will take more care of them. — Cond. 



Remarkably large Cockscomb. — Of a fine cockscomb grown by Mi*. Oxley, 

 gardener to Lord Southampton, Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, the comb 

 measured 27 J in. over the top in length, and 10 in. over in breadth. Mr. 

 Oxley had several plants with very large combs, but the above was the 

 largest. — A Young Gardener. Feb. 1. 1831. 



The heaviest Gooseberries in 1830. — In Vol. V. p. 728., I stated that the 

 heaviest berry on record was the Roaring Lion, a red. This year, the red 

 berry has been beaten, for the first time, by a yellow, the Teazer, which 



