Foreign Notices : — Italy. 



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must be kept boiling a little. Then add 60 parts of sand, 30 of small gravel, 

 and 6 of slacked lime. 



No. 2. Take 1 part of mineral pitch, I part of dry rosin, 7 parts of chalk, 

 2 parts of sand, and boil them as before — H. L. L. June, 1841. 



Art. II. Foreign Notices. 



ITALY. 



Gardening. — In mj- last, dated the 9th of January (see the Magazine for 

 March 1841, p. 182.), I promised to send you a list of the plants introduced 

 into Lombardy during the past year (1840). This I am now enabled to do, 

 through the kindness of Signer Casoretti, the indefatigable director of the 

 garden of the Villa Traversi, at Desio, who favoured me with the following 

 catalogue, the greater number of the species in which he himself intro- 

 duced. 



yEschynanthus coccineus. 



Alstroemeria Barclayaw«, NeilHi tri- 

 color. 



Amphicome arguta. 



Andromeda angusta, spec, nova, 

 Drummondi tetragona. 



Anigozanthos cocclnea. 



Vanda GomesM. 



Azalea indica var. plures, pontica 

 /i!yacinthj/?o/'«. 



Berberis orientalis, spec, nova, Buenos 

 Ayres. 



Byttnen'o; brasiliensis. 



Camelh'a j. Aimable d'Amerique, 

 CunninghamM, Perfection, Henry 

 Favre, Meteor, Nicolsw, Palmer's 

 perfection, peregrina, Pratt's seed- 

 ling, Striped major, Thompsoneana 

 superba, Wallichw, Washington, 

 Weardra, and many others. 



Cereus Hitchlnsw hybridus, Hitchin- 

 sii speciosus multiplex, oxygonus, 

 pentalophus. 



Chorozema varium. 



Clematis florida Sieboidw D. Don, 

 cserulea Lindl. 



Cobce^a stipularis. 



Crinum angustum. 



Dacrydium elatum. 



Deutzza corymbosa, sanguinea. 



Dianthus splendidissimus. 



^pimedium wiolaceum, macranthum. 



Epiphyllum rhombeum. 



Eriostemon ^uxifolius, cuspidatus. 



Erythrina pumila. 



JSuphorbifl meloformis, spl^ndens. 



Fuchsia corymbiflora, forraosa, ele- 

 gans, fulgens, grandiflora, pendula, 

 salicifolia, versicolor. 



Gesnera oblonga. 



Grevillea Manglesra, robusta. 



Haematoxylon campechianum. 



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hibiscus splendens. 

 Hemerocallis Sieboldz«?za. 

 Hotela japonica 

 Illicium re'iigiosum. 

 J^asminum, species nova from China. 

 Leycesteria formosa. 

 lyilium exlmium, japonicum, super- 

 bum. 

 Liriodendron Tulipifera heteroph jlla. 

 Magnolm Hartierens ? rotundifolia ?. 

 Mahoniffl fascicularis, glumacea. 

 Mammillaria crinita, echinata, glochi- 



diata, tenuis. 

 Mandevillea suaveolens. 

 Musa Cavendishw, Dacca, 

 Nelumbium album, thibetianum. 

 iVymphae^a Zotus, rubra, versicolor. 

 Opuntia glaucophylla, imbricata, 



Kleinz'a. 

 Pseonia tenuifolia fl. pleno. 

 Penstemon frutescens, bicolor, genti- 



anoides. 

 Phlomis RusselhaHfl. 

 Plumien'a angustifolia. 

 Potentilla Hopwoodza?2a. 

 Pronaya elegans. 

 i^hododendron arboreum, ten new 



varieties. 

 Ribes speciosum, inebrians, musco- 



sum. 

 /Salvia patens. 

 Solandra guttata. 

 Tweedz'a ca;riilea. 

 Thysanotus elatior. 

 Tradescantia grandiflora, splendens. 

 Ferbena, five new varieties. 

 Wistaria Backhousia^za, floribunda. 

 Yucca abysslnica, flaccida. 

 Xanthosia rotundifolia. 

 Besides a great many more mentioned 



in my last letter. 



