HORTICULTURAL SOCIETV OF LONDON'. 



Upon this occasion letters of introduction to her Majesty's 

 Consuls in the Southern States of Anierica, were obligingly fur- 

 nished by Lord Palnierston ; and to Mr. Arthur Cope, her Ma- 

 jesty's t onsul in Guayaquil, and to Dr. Joaquim Mosquera, in 

 Popayan, by James Henderson, Esq At a later period tl>e 

 Council were enabled to open a credit in Guayaquil for. 500/. in 

 favour of Mr. Ilartweg, by the kind assistance of William Gibbs, 

 Esq., a Fellow of the Society. In the mean while Mr. Hartweg 

 continued to occupy himself in Guatemala. The following are 

 further extracts from his correspondence. 



Guatemala, April '■27th, 1840. — " 1 have now been about in all 

 directions, but without finding plants that will be capable of 

 enduring the open air in England, and I again say, that this 

 country is not suited to produce plants of that description, five 

 thousand feet of elevation being about equal to three thousand 

 near the city of Mexico." 



Guatemala, Maij'-lAth, 1840. — ''An excursion which I made to 

 Coban in the state of Vera Paz has not been attended with the 

 success that I had anticipated : the country although very high 

 produces very little variety, the highest points being occupied by 

 Oaks, Pinus oocarpa, Liquidambar styracitlua and a Viburnum ; 

 the latter, the only kind of seed 1 collected. Of Epiphytes, I found 

 six, ail of which are pretty and new to me, but being just now in 

 their growing state. I must defer sending them. The last consign- 

 ment H. S. 56, 63, has arrived at Isabal, and has in all probability 

 been shipped for London by this time, there having been several 

 vessels loading in Belize.* The boxes H. S. 50, 55, have been 

 shipped on board the " Redman," direct to London about the 

 end of March." f 



Guatemala, June \9th, 1840. — " I beg to inform you, that 

 during the last month I have been doing little, owing to the rainy 

 season having completely set in ; and on one occasion getting wet 

 to the skin, I and the servant were taken ill with the ague, but 

 fortunately every other day, so that we could assist each other j 



* They arrived on the .'ith of August, and contained four sorts of seeds in 

 good condition, of which three sorts have grown. One of these, Pinus 

 oocarpoides, is now in course of distribution. Also thirty-three sorts of 

 Orchidaceous plants, of which eight were dead or nearly so ; one hundred and 

 thirty-six planes were distributed; one only has flowered, viz: Oncidium 

 Cebolleta. 



t These arrived on the 30th of June, 1840, and contained thirteen sorts of^ 

 seeds, of which three were dead, the others mostly in good condition, and 

 thirty-six sorts of Orchidaceac, all alive. Six sorts of seeds have grown, among 

 which are Cheirostemon platanifolium and Pinus filifolia, and three hundred 

 and sixty-four packets were distributed to the Fellows of tlie Society. Of the 

 Orchidaceous plants, one hundred and ninety were distributed; only three 

 have yet flowered, viz • — Oncidium ampliatum, var. with broad pseudo-bulbs; 

 Oncidium ascendens ; Fpidcnurum aurantiacum. 



