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city and unity of design as that at Chiswick), has been erected and heated 

 by Mr. Perkins, for the growth of orchideous plants ; certainly a remarkable 

 order, which seems to serve the same purpose in tropical forests that 

 mosses and lichens do in those of temperate regions. Some alterations 

 have taken place in the disposition of the trained trees on the different 

 fruit walls, which we doubt not will tend to forward the grand object of 

 proving and describing fruits. The good which the Society is now doing 

 by distributing all over Europe and America scions of all the best apples 

 and pears, is greater than can well be estimated. We regret that their 

 fruit catalogue is more than double the usual booksellers' price for such a 

 pamphlet ; it ought to have been sold at cost. — Cond. 



Art. III. FloricuUural and Botanical Notices ofnevo Plants, and 

 of old Plants oj" Interest, supplementary to the latest Editions of 

 the '■'■ Bncyclopcedia of Plants" and of the " Hortus Britannicus." 



Curtis' s Botanical Magazine ; each monthly Number containing eight plates ; 

 3^. Qd. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by Dr. Hooker, King's Professor of 

 Botany in the University of Glasgow. 



Edwards's Botanical Register; each monthly Number containing eight 

 plates; 4s. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by John Lindley, F.R.S., Pro- 

 fessor of Botany in the London University. 



Sweet's British Flower-Garden ; each monthly Number containing four 

 plates ; 3s. coloured, 2s. Sd. plain. Edited by David Don, Esq., Libra- 

 rian to the Linnaean Society. 



Loddiges's Botanical Cabinet; each monthly Number containing ten plates; 

 5s. coloured, 2s. 6d. partly coloured. Edited by Messrs. Loddiges. 



Dicotyledonous Polypetalous Plants. 



IV. VapaverdcecB. 



1552. PAPAWER. 

 137770 persicum im(Z/. Persian O or 1| jn.jl Bri Persia 1830? S co Bot. reg. 1570 



" It is an annual which would be pretty if its petals were not so quickly 



deciduous. Its nearest affinity is with P. Argemone." {Bot, Reg., March.) 



XLVL Cdctece. 



1472. CE'REUS. 

 12u86ct Mallisbni Hort. Mallison's !U H] or 6 ... C. specioss.-fiagellif. 1830. C p.I.s Bot. reg. 1565 



" This must be classed amongst the very best hybrids which floricul- 

 turists have succeeded in obtaining. It was raised a few years ago by 

 Mr. Mallison, gardener to Sir Samuel Scott, from a seed of Cereus spe- 

 ciosissimus fertilised by the pollen of Cereus flagelliformis : the former the 

 well-known erect species with brilliant scarlet blossoms j the latter the 

 equally common trailing kind with pale rosy flowers. The result has been 

 a hybrid as nearly as possible intermediate between the two parents, having 

 all the brilliancy of colour of the female line combined with the prolific 

 constitution and trailing habit of the male. It was exhibited for the first 

 time at a meeting of the London Horticultural Society, in 1832: the spe* 

 cimen was about 2 ft. long, and excited much admiration. It was loaded 

 with crimson flowers of the most healthy appearance ; and, what was espe- 

 cially remarkable, the colour of its stem was not the dull green of that of 

 C. flagelliformis, but the rich bright hue of that of C. speciosissimus. The 

 only plant we are acquainted with rs in the possession of Sir Samuel Scott. 

 It appears to be a hardy green-house plant, and will doubtless increase 

 freely by cuttings." {Bot. Reg., March.) 



XL VII. Onagrdiice, 



1183. ffiNOTHE^RA. 

 28196a concinna D. Kow comely O -* or 1 3 Fa. Ro Chile 1S3I. S s.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.l83 



