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PKOCKKUINOS or TI1K 



a very fine sjiccimfn •)!' llie variety of Azalea indica called 

 llibberti, and a Clrontf witli lartre deep purple blossoms. 



From Sir("hnrle!< Lomon, Hart., M. 1*., F.H.S., some specimens 

 of plants in Hower from the openp^round at Carclew, in Cornwall ; 

 theyhavinjreompletelyresisttHl the severity of the late winter, in that 

 mild [MTi of Kni^land. Ainon^^ them were the New Holland Acacias 

 dijfusa and stricta, .Azalea Ifdtfttlia with purple flowers ; l.rka 

 australts and nieditcrranea, all which were completely destroyed 

 in the neiirhhonrhood of Ivondon ; and, what was still more re- 

 markable, shoots in full flower of Uhododendron arhorcum, which 

 Sir Charles Lemon stated was becoming a tree at Carclew. 



From John Luscombe, Esq. of ( oombe Hoyal, near Kings- 

 bridtre, l>ev(»nshire, a basket of Lmv fruit, afjparently of the 

 street kind. Mr. Luscombe stated that these fruits had been pro- 

 duced without the aid of fire-heat in winter, having been only 

 protected by a glazed frame ; and that he had found the trees, 

 although considered by some to be more tender than the Orange, 

 Lemon, or Citron, not to have sustained the slightest injury 

 from the unusual severity of the winter. 



From Mr. Mountjoy, nurseryman, Ealing, a large collection of 

 Heartsease, 



From Mr. Thomas Naylor, of Brixton, a collection of Auriculas 

 and Hyacinths. 



From Mr. Nieman, gardener to Peter Caesar Labouchfere, Esq. 

 ¥. H. of Hylands near Chelmsford. Black Hamburgh Grapes, 

 Kidney Beans, and some remarkably large Keens seedling straw- 

 berries. 



From Mr. Spence, gardener to R. Durant, Esq. F. H. S. of 

 Putney Hill, a beautiful specimen of the yellow variety of Brug- 

 niansia sanguinea ; the specimen measured L5 feet in circum- 

 ference, and had upwards of 4*2 of its large yellow flowers ex- 

 panded upon it. It was accompanied by a Yellow China Rose, 

 one of the flowers of which measured 13 inches in circumference, 

 a species of Lime, and a pretty pink variety of Grevillea sericea. 



From Mr. Springall, gardener at Taplow Lodge in Bucking- 

 hamshire, a specimen of Oxalis florihunda, completely covering a 

 basket, 1*2 inches in diameter, in which it was placed. 



From the Society's Garden, a collection of N'arcissi and Ribes, 

 together with several greenhouse plants ; among which was 

 Habranthus concolor, a new species sent from Mexico by Mr. 

 Hartweg. the Society's collector in that country. It may be de- 

 scribed as follows : Bulbs round, black. Leaves several, glaucous, 

 obtuse, a foot and more long, fully half an inch wide, longer than the 

 scape, which bearsa single pale green whole-coloured flower. Spathes 

 bifid, cylindrical, fitting the base of the peduncle tightly. Peduncle 

 erect, slightly compressed, nearly three inches long. Perianth 

 campavulate, nearly erect, rather spreading at the point, two 

 inches long ; segments obtuse. Faucial ring composed of six short 



