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From Messrs. Chandler and Sons, Nurserymen, Vauxhall ; a 

 small collection of grcen-house plants, among which were Epacris 

 paliidosa, a seedling Uhododendion arhoreum, and the two varieties 

 of Camellia japonica called elegans and formosa. 



From William Hasledine Pepys, Esq., F.H.S., a remarkably fine 

 Cucumber grown upon the trellis inside a forcing-house. 



From Mr. John Davis, gardener to Sir Simon Clarke, Bart., 

 F.H.S., of Oak Hill, near East Barnet, a Black Antigua Pine- 

 apple, weighing 3|: lbs. and some Whiie Sweetwater Grapes, so 

 well grown as to resemble fine specimens of the Muscat of Alex- 

 andria. 



From John Disney, Esq., F.FI.S ; very fine fruit of the Golden 

 Uarveij and Nonpareil Apples, in illustration of his manner of 

 keeping fruit of this description. The apples were found upon 

 trial to have preserved their flavour in great perfection. 



From Mr. D. Ferguson, gardener to Peter Ca3sar Labouch^re, 

 Esq., F.H.S., a plant of Loasa lateritia, a stinging, twining, 

 green-house herbaceous plant, with brick-red flowers, recently 

 introduced from Tucuman, by Mr. Tweedie. 



From Miss Garnier, of Wickham, near Southampton, a speci- 

 men of an Amaryllis or Hippeastrum, from Ikazil, and a variety of 

 Gesnera Douglasii (Bot. Reg. t. 1110.) The latter had larger 

 flowers than the original species, but they were paler externally, 

 and the markings inside the corolla were of a less vivid brown. 

 These were accompanied by a small specimen of Gesnera fau- 

 cialis (Bot. Reg. t. 1785.), one of the most brilliantly coloured 

 of Brazilian herbaceous plants. 



From Richard Harrison, Esq., Aighburgh, near Liverpool, a 

 specimen of Cijrtopodiam piinctatum. This was a very beautiful 

 (Orchidaceous plant, with a panicle of long bright yellow flowers, 

 stained and mottled with crimson ; even the large reflexed bracts 

 were coloured in a similar manner, and contributed to the general 

 richness of the inflorescence. It was much more brightly marked 

 than the specimen from which a figure was published in the Bo- 

 tanical INlagazine, (fig. 3507.) ; and had acquired all the depth of 

 colour which the species gnins in St. Domingo and the continent 

 of equinoctial America, of which it is a native. 



From Mr. Ingram, F.H.S., three beautiful seedling Verbenas, 

 raised in Her Majesty's Garden at Windsor, between V, chamce- 

 drifolia and F. Tweediana. 



From Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., a collection of thirty Greenhouse 

 and Stove plants. The most striking species were the following : 

 a large specimen of Clianthus puniceus ; Erica aristata major; 

 a very fine plant of the white variety of Gloxinia Epacris onos- 

 mcrflora (Bot. Mag. t. 31G8.) a very pretty greenhouse plant from 

 New Holland 5 Peristeria carina, a curious Orchidaceous plant, 

 whose flowers lie upon the ground in clusters like little cups of 

 yellow wax ; a L< ucopogon and an Oxijlohiuni apparently new ; 



