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HYBRIDS—(continued.) 
. Nepenthes superba (hookeriana x Sedeni). 
Wittei (Curtisii x unnamed sp.). 
cw alis (Phyllamphora x hookeriana). 
Williamsii (Sedeni x hookeriana). 
Durian in the West Indies.—The well-known Durian tree of the 
Indian Archipelago (Durio Zibethinus, L.) has been successfully 
oduced t i in est i 
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growing in Ave ete of Dr. H. A. Alford Nicholls, C.M.G., at 
t. Arom This was originally received from Kew with 
eatery vdd lants sent out to the late Dr. Imray and to 
Dr. Nicholls, in exchange for Dominica plants, contributed at the 
private expense of the two gentlemen above mentioned. 
plants already established there was given in the Bulletin for 
July of the same year, pp. 10-12. It is gratifying to find that all 
Dominiea, in order that plants may be raised for distribution to 
other parts « of the Western tropics. One fruit was lately received 
at T but, unfortunately, it did not arrive in good condition. 
interested in the subject may see a fine plant of Durian, 
about 15 feet high, in the Palm House, where it has been established 
for about 15 years, but so far has not flowered. 
Lily culture in Natal—ZLiliwm longiflorum, sis Harrisii, 
popularly quic as the Bermuda Lily, has for some y 
een gro a large scale in Persad for the Long of the 
United States us Europe, the annual export of bulbs being of the 
value of about £20,000. The bulbs arrive in England in September, 
when they are planted i in pots and kept in frames or greenhouses 
tillthey flower in April or May. Efforts appear to have been 
— to ry Hee this lily in Natal for the European market, as 
s shown by he following advertisement, which appeared in ‘the 
Gardimés s Chronicle for April 17th, 1807 o 
* Messrs. Protheroe & Morris will sell by auction at their Central 
Sale ne on April 21st, a first biegen mental consignment of 
4,000 Lilium Harrisii, grown for so gems in Natal, where the 
habit of ined and size of flower dieci attained great perfection, in 
addition to the season of flowering being entirely changed. The 
sender anticipates that by being kept back, or by being potted and 
allowed to come slowly, flowers of hie grand lily may be obtained 
when nothing like ihem is in the m 
These bulbs were equal in size id quality to those received 
from Bermuda ; they realised about 15/- per hundred. About 200 
were purchased for Kew. These fee planted in pots and placed 
in the open air,where they grew to about a yard in height and 
seco freely in September, ue months after the Bermuda 
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