596 Botanical, Floricultural, and Arbor iculLural Notices, 



as I have been informed, tliat a fine collection of 500 olive cuttings has been 

 shipped for Sydney by one of the vessels which lately sailed for that port. 

 Whilst this bids fair for the increase of British horticulture and productiveness, 

 the culture of dates has been already tried in the lovely climate of Sydney. 

 About 300 young plants of that interesting and useful palm (Phce v nix dacty- 

 lifera, the Date Palm) are now growing in the large orange gardens of 

 Concord. They require, however, along time before yielding fruit ; because 

 there is a tree in these gardens, now 15 years old, which has never yet 

 flowered. It is, finally, an interesting fact for botanical geography, that whilst 

 dates and olives are disappearing, or at least thinning, in the countries of the 

 East, where they were first mentioned by history, we behold the fields at the 

 antipodes now covering with these most ancient (vegetable) companions of 

 mankind. 



London, Aug. 1839. 



Art. VI. Botanical, Floricultural, and Arboricultural Notices of 

 the Kiiids of Plants neu>ly introduced into British Gardens and 

 Plantations, or which have been originated in them ; together with 

 additional Information respecting Plants (whether old or new) already 

 in Cultivation : the whole intended to serve as a perpetual Supplement 

 to the " Encyclopcedia of Plants," the " Hortus Britannicus," the 

 " Hortus Lignosus," and the " Arboretum et Fruticetum Britan- 

 nicum." 



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Malva" cem. 



Mdlva lucida Lindl. A Nepal annual, somewhat resembling M. sylvestris. 



(B. M. R., No. 130., Oct.) 



Leguminosce. 



1985. LUPrNUS. 



Barkeri Lindl. Mr. Barker's OJ cu 3 jn B.p.y Mexico 1838. S co Bot. reg. 1839, 56. 



A half-hardy annual, or rather biennial, obtained from Mexico by Mr. 

 Barker, and named after him by Dr. Lindley. It approaches very near L. 



