Cuar. XXI.] ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND. 405 
-Shanghae variety are now in the garden of the 
Horticultural Society of London. 
The whole of my plants from the districts of 
Foo-chow-foo, Chusan, and Ningpo, being brought 
together at Shanghae, I got them packed, and, on 
the 10th of October, left the north of China for 
Hong-kong and Enetanp. As I went down the 
river, I could not but look around me with pride 
and satisfaction; for in this part of the country 
I had found the finest plants in my collections. It 
is only the patient botanical collector, the object 
of whose unintermitted labour is the introduction 
of the more valuable trees and shrubs of other 
countries into his own, who can appreciate what I 
then felt. 
When we arrived at Hong-kong, I divided my 
collections, and despatched eight glazed cases of 
living plants for England: the duplicates of these 
and many others I reserved to take home under 
my own care. I then went up to Canton, and took 
my passage for London in the ship “ John Cooper.” 
Eighteen glazed cases, filled with the most beau- 
tiful plants of northern China, were placed upon 
the poop of the ship, and we sailed on the 22d of 
December. After a long but favourable voyage, 
we anchored in the Thames, on the 6th of May, 
1846. The plants arrived in excellent order, and 
were immediately conveyed to the garden of the 
Horticultural Society at Chiswick. Already, many 
of those which I first imported have found their 
way to the principal gardens in Europe; and at 
