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abundant, large, and fine. Currants, a fair crop, and excellent. Cherries 

 have not been so abundant as expected ; but the supply has been quite 

 equal to the demand : in consequence of the prevailing dry weather, they 

 have come to market in excellent condition. Apples are reported to be a 

 partial crop, the earlier sorts being rather plentiful. Pears are generally 

 an excellent crop in all the varieties. Plums are partial in crop, but, no 

 doubt, as plentiful as may be required. Peaches and nectarines have been 

 furnished in tolerable abundance, and excellent in size and flavour ; with 

 pine-apples, grapes, and melons : of the latter, we have already had several 

 importations from Holland, Vegetables have been plentifully supplied, 

 and, as usual, of excellent quality ; except lettuces, which have been much 

 injured in their early growth by the prevalence of cold nights. — G. C. 

 Covent Garden, July 19. 1832. 



Art. VII. London Horticultural Society and Garden. 



June 5. 1832. — Exhibited. Magnolias, yellow Chinese rose, and sweet- 

 scented Chinese rose, from the Rev. Thomas Garnier. Yellow Banksian 

 rose, sweet-scented Scotch rose, C'aprifolium flavum, and Magnolia obovata, 

 from Mr. Robert Donald, nurseryman, Woking, Zihodode'ndron Smiths, 

 from Messrs. Loddiges. Calceolarias, from Mr. J. D. Parks. Hybrid cactus, 

 and hybrid calceolaria, from Mr. Henry Groom. Hybrid calceolarias, from 

 the Rev. W. H. Roberts. Azalea indica white-flowered, and Cotoneaster 

 microphylla, from W. Wells, Esq. Combretum comosum, and two kinds 

 of Schizanthus, raised from Mr. Cuming's Chilean seeds, from the Comte 

 de Vandes. A species of Alstrcemeria, sent from America by Dr. Nuttall, 

 from C. Barclay, Esq. A species, with its fruit, of Tacsbnia, from 

 Chile, from Mrs. Marryatt. Fuchsia bacillaris, and Cereus Jenkinsonii, 

 from Mr. W. Dennis, Chelsea. [This lovely Fuchsia bacillaris, wand- 

 branched fuchsia, is really a very charming species. Many will consider it 

 more beautiful just before its blossoms are expanded than after they are 

 expanded, as, previously to expansion, they form so many pendulous 

 crimson globes ; in expression of which characteristic, some, it appears, 

 have applied to this species the epithet globosa, which, although very 

 expressive, must, according to the laws of botanists, give place to that of 

 bacillaris, as by this latter specific name the species has been published, 

 with a figure of it, in the Botanical Register, t. 1480. The above plant, as 

 exhibited by Mr. Dennis, well exemplified his extraordinary powers of culti- 

 vation. The plant exhibited occupied a pot of about the size No. 8, was 

 a yard in height, its longest branches so spread as to form a circle 2 ft. 

 or more in diameter, and the upper ones becoming successively shorter, 

 so as to render the plant conical in figure ; all the branches were bear- 

 ing flowers ; and the plant had been, by Mr. Dennis's skill and atten- 

 tion, rendered in this state in the short space of a few weeks, from that of 

 a starved but healthy plant, growing, or rather living, in a sixty-sized pot, 

 and being scarcely more than afoot in height, and almost destitute of a 

 single branch. Besides thus altering the condition of this individual 

 plant, which I saw in both states, Mr. Dennis has also struck numerous 

 cuttings from it. — J. D.] 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Flowers: Azaleas, rhododendrons, 

 Scotch roses, Rosa Banksice lutea and alba, Bignonia capreolata, Crataegus 

 Oxyacantha rosea superba [This is the most exquisite variety described in 

 our last (p. 362.) under the denomination of " A new variety of hawthorn, 

 with carmine crimson blossoms. — .7.2).], C. heterophylla, Wistaria Con- 

 sequawa, Tellima grandiflora, Collinsia grandiflora ; Pentstemon procerus, 

 Scouleri; iupinus polyphyllus, polyphyllus albus, and nootkatensis ; 

 jMImulus moschatus, Quisqualis indica ; ^S'sculus flava, humilis, Pavia, 

 Pavia parvifldra, neglecta, and rubicunda; Gloxinia caulescens. 



