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viz. Anast&tica hieVochuntica (jtfg. 89. a.), "a hardy annual, a native of the 

 Levant. It grows 

 on the coasts of 

 the Red Sea, in 

 Palestine, and near 

 Cairo, in sandy i 

 places. The stalks 

 are ligneous, and_ 

 the peculiar ap- 

 pearance which 

 they present, and 

 which has given 

 rise to the name 

 of rose {fig. b.), 

 arises from their 

 being blown out 

 of the soil before 



they have begun to wither. When the plant is taken up green, and 

 hung up in a dry room, it may be preserved for several years ; and it 

 is said if the root be afterwards put in water for a few hours, the buds 

 of the flowers will swell, open, and appear as if newly taken out of the 

 ground. {Mart. Mill. Diet.) The specimen exhibited was collected at 

 Bushire, on the western shore of the Persian Gulf, lat. 28° N., by Lieut. 

 Roe, R. N., a most active and enterprising naturalist, who has added many 

 new species from that part of the world to the cabinet of Mr. Lambert. 

 It is one of the largest ever seen in England. 



March 20. Read, an account of varieties of the Apple which have been 

 found to succeed in Ross-shire, latitude 57° 34' N., by Sir George Stewart 

 Mackenzie, Bart. F.H.S. ; and one upon the best mode of raising Seedling 

 Fruit Trees, in a Letter to the Secretary, by Mr. W. Weissenborn, of Weimar. 

 This letter is a translation, with variations, of a paper by Giovanelli, which 

 originally appeared in a Tyrol journal, from whence it was copied into a 

 Vienna newspaper, and sent us, from the latter source, by Mr. Rauch, jun. 

 of Laxembourg. It is an idle speculation of a person very ignorant in 

 vegetable physiology. Having succeeded in reversing a grafted tree, so that 

 what was the top has become the roots, the original stock and a part of 

 what was the scion is cut off, leaving the shoots produced by the scion as 

 root and top. Seeds from the fruits of the tree so obtained, it is con- 

 jectured, will produce fruits the same as those of the parent, and save the 

 trouble of grafting, &c. As well might it be said that a man may become 

 taller by walking across a room on the crown of his head, or a better 

 Christian by crawling to church on his hands and feet. 



Distributed. — Seeds of Tetragonia expansa, from the garden of the 

 Society. Rampion and White Silesia Lettuce, from Messrs. Beck and Co. 

 Guernsey Parsnip, from Mr. Hugh Ronalds, F.H. S. Celeri Rave, from 

 M. Vilmorin, C.M.H.S. Cuttings of Byson-Wood Russet Apple, from John 

 Rigden Neame, Esq. F.H.S. ; and Siberian Bitter Sweet Apple, from Thomas 

 Andrew Knight, Esq. F.R.S. &c. President. 



Exhibited. — Flowers and leaves of the Hand Tree of Mexico, in spirits, 

 by Sir C. M. Burrell, Bart. M.P., F.H.S. The centre of a decayed Cedar 

 tree, from Charles Worthington, Esq. F.H.S A plant in flower of an 

 Amaryllis, resembling A. acuminata, from the Brazils ; and a Ribston Pippin, 

 from Mr. George Sinclair, F.H.S. A plant in flower of a Seedling Camellia, 

 from the Comte de Vandes, F.H.S. Plants in flower of four sorts of 

 Camellia, from Messrs. Chandler and Buckingham. Flowers of Hovea 

 Celsi and Chorize'ma Henchmanm, from Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. F.H.S. 

 Flowers of four seedling Camellia*, from Mr. George Press, gardener to 



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