Plants introduced by Robert Barclay, Esq. 



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I send you a portrait of a vanguard peach tree of six years' 

 growth [Jig. 80.), exactly as it stands against the wall in this 

 garden, and taken by my son this 11th of March, 1826. 



I am, Sir, &c. 



John Seymour. 

 Carleton Hall Gardens, March, 1826. 



Art. XVIII. Catalogue of Plants introduced into this Coun- 

 try by Robert Barclay, Esq. F.L.S. H.S. fyc, and now grow- 

 ing in his Garden at Bury Hill, Surrey. Communicated by 

 Mr. Cameron, Gardener there. 



Sir, 



The following is a list of part of the plants which have 

 been introduced within the last few years by Robert Barclay, 

 Esq. into his garden at Bury Hill, which you may perhaps 

 think worthy of being recorded in your useful and interesting 

 Gardener's Magazine, to show the zeal with which my wor- 

 thy and respected master is ■ forwarding the science of bo- 

 tany, and adding to the ornaments of the gardens of the 

 country. Some of these plants have been also raised in other 

 gardens about the same time, but none are inserted which 

 were not raised full as early here as at any other place, as far 

 as I have been able to learn. 



Amongst the plants contained in this list the Combretum 

 purpureum (Jig. 81. a), and Thunberg/tf alata (b) planted out as 



climbers, are as showy as any yet introduced into the stove ; a 

 plant of the former, after flowering freely during the summer, 

 is now again (November 11.) coming into full bloom, having 



