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varieties, and hybrids, and even from monstrosities, which this is, that we are 

 to procure the most valuable plants of culture. This has been well pointed 

 out in Bishop's Causal Botany. — Cond. 



A Collection of Hear teases, exceeding one hundred in number, was exhibited 

 at the Metropolitan Flower Show at Salt Hill, June 19., and brought to Bays- 

 water, for us to look at, on the following day. They had all been raised from 

 seeds, by Mr. John Joseph Allnatt, junior, of Wallingford (mentioned p. 5.), 

 within three years. A pan of flowers, selected from his seedling plants of 

 1833 and 1834, won the King William medal at the above show, although ex- 

 hibited against selected varieties from various sources. In Mr. Allnatt's pan, 

 not a flower of one old variety was shown. We took down the names of the 

 following, of the varieties raised by Mr. Allnatt in 1833 : — Allnatt's Achilles, 

 Orpheus, Ajax, Plato, Arcadia, Hecuba, maculosa, splendens, zebrina, re- 

 gina, and tigrina. Maculosa has a large corolla, with a yellow ground, and 

 three or four pretty violet spots towards the centre of the upper petals. The 

 striped kinds,. as zebrina, &c, were very pleasing. After this show, Mr. All- 

 natt offered publicly to show a hundred varieties of this flower, against the 

 same number, by any other grower, for 10/. The varieties shown us were of 

 very great beauty, and remarkably distinct, considering the great general re- 

 semblance of one heartsease to another. Amongst the flowers of seedlings, 

 which have blossomed this year (1834) for the first time, a few showed a 

 strong tendency towards a tint of crimson, which is the rarest of colours in 

 the flowers of the heartsease ; these Mr. Allnatt much esteems, and is san- 

 guine enough to hope that, in the known susceptibility of sportiveness in the 

 heartsease, kinds with corollas more and more tinted with crimson may be 

 produced. All Mr. Allnatt's varieties may be purchased from Mr- Hogg, at 

 Paddington ; who is appointed his sole agent in London. It is a remarkable 

 fact, that, from a capsule of seeds gathered from the finest cultivated varieties 

 of heartsease, plants perfectly wild, both in their foliage and their flowers, will 

 frequently be produced. In like manner, in cultivated fields and gardens, we 

 occasionally find a fine variety of heartsease, which seems to have sprung at 

 once from seeds of the wild variety. We believe this to be more or less the 

 case with all cultivated annuals, or plants of short duration ; but the transition 

 is by no means so easy with regard to fruit trees, for the seeds of a golden 

 pippin, or a Hawthornden, though they may produce some varieties unlike 

 the plant, will never produce a genuine crab. — Id. 



Orchideous Plants from.the Caraccas. — Sir Robert Ker Porter has promised 

 me a supply of rarities from Caraccas, for the arrival of which I am looking 

 out with considerable anxiety. These, he informs me, will consist of mare- 

 posas (orchideous plants); the flor de Mayo, or lirio de los vail es (the lily 

 of the valley); most .probably an Amaryllis, Crinum, or Pancratium ; and 

 one or two more lirios (lilies), one of which he describes as being of a most 

 beautiful crimson. To these, from a former letter, I am led to expect, will be 

 added some roots of the appio, the root of which is a valuable esculent. 

 — W, Hamilton, 



A Box of Orchideous Plants and Bulbs, including above fifty species, has 

 been shipped from Demerara, for Messrs. Low and Co., of the Clapton Nur- 

 sery, by Mr. John Henchman, the botanical collector for that establishment. 

 We anticipate some valuable additions from a region hitherto but little ex- 

 plored by collectors. — Cond. 



SCOTLAND. 



Comparative Trialof Walls of different Kinds. — The Caledonian Horticultural 

 Society has published a Garden Report, dated June 1., from which it ap- 

 pears some trials have been made of the difference of temperature between 

 a loping wall inclined to the horizon at an angle of about 50°, a wall coloured 

 black, and a perpendicular wall ; and, between perpendicular walls of free- 

 stone, whinstone (basalt), and brick. It appears that the sloping, the black,. 

 and the freestone walls, all indicate the same temperature at 6 o'clock in the 



