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freely during the months of July and August in the open border, but earlier 

 if kept in the greenhouse. It is easily increased from cuttings of the young 

 wood, treated in the ordinary way, or by seeds." {Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 37.) — 



G.G. . ^ , . , 



AmarardhacecB. — Deerhigia indica Spr., syn. Celosia baccata Retz. — G. 

 Gordon. September 17. 1842. 



On walking through this garden on the 31st of December, we were much 

 gratified by the stale in which we found the following trees and shrubs : — 

 .Bigg's Everlasting Crab, laden with fruit, which remains on all the winter, a 

 truly splendid sight ; //ippophae Rhamnoides fce'mina, also covered with its 

 orange-coloured berries, which change towards spring to a dark straw colour 

 (there is a still more splendid specimen of this tree, covered with fruit, in the 

 Abney Park Cemetery) ; Symphoriaglomerata, covered with its fine purple fruit, 

 and forming a highly ornamental bush ; Cotoneaster frigida and affinis, both 

 covered with fruit, but much less so in the Hort. Soc. Garden than in the 

 Abney Park Cemetery ; .Slaeagnus argentea (syn. Shepherdk argentea), 

 Cornus mas, and i/amamelis virginica, in full flower, the Glastonbury thorn 

 coming into flower. 



The Abney Park Cemetery at Stoke Newington contains 31 acres, and a 

 named arboretum has been planted in it by Messrs. Loddiges, which contains 

 every hardy tree and shrub, varieties as well as species, that was in their 

 collection a year ago. The names are on brick, the same as in the Hackney 

 arboretum, and they are unfortunately already scaling off"; but there will be 

 no great expense incurred in naming them on cast iron, or on wood with cast- 

 iron shanks, as in the conservatory of the Hort. Soc. Garden. 



The Fidham Numery, Fidham ; Messrs. IVhitley and Osborn. — As usual, 

 a number of new kinds have been added to the catalogue. Among these is 

 a very curious variety of the common yew, with the leaves quite adpressed to 

 the shoots. It was found in a bed of seedlings in the Chester Nursery by 

 Messrs. Dickson, the proprietors of that establishment. The Dovaston 

 variety of the common yew, of wliich a portrait is given in our Arboretum 

 BrUannicum, has also been added. There is a very handsome small plant of 

 this variety in the Hort. Soc. Garden. 



Exotic Nursery, King^s Road, Chelsea ; Joseph Knight. — The following 

 names have been sent us, of the spelling of some of which we are doubtful, 

 never having heard of them before. 



^^bies, sp. from New Holland Pgdonia Moutan arborea Newmanw 



Cupressus Moray Sombay /lapaversicea Jacquinidna 



sp. from Swan River Pinus, three new and distinct sp. 



Fothergflk from Alta California 



Cratae^gus spicata one new and distinct sp. from 



t'arpinus ^etulus variegata China 



.i^uonymus angustifolius one new and distinct sp. from 



nepalensis New Zealand 



i^raxinus excelsior salicifolia nova Cerasus Padus aucub(s(d\ia, 



Pagus sylvatica grandidentata pendula 



Crus-galli variegata 



latifolia nana Ptelea trifohata variegata 



P^lex lati folia Paulowma imperialis 



crassifolia Quercus heterophylla cucullata 



Juglans regia laciniata elegantissima 



heterophylla macrophylla 



J^uniperus neoboriensis glabra 



religiosa nepalensis 



Mahonk KnightM Several apparently new kinds 



MoTus nigra cucullata from mountains in the north- 



Pyrus Ma\us maculata east of Portugal. 



sempervirens Several new sps. from the Hima- 



flore pleno layas 



