HOETICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Several cases of living plants likely to prove useful to the 

 inhabitants were sent out under Mr. Fortune's charge, as well as 

 a large q^^antity of vegetable and flower seeds, the greater part of 

 which arrived in good order, and have proved of permanent 

 benefit to the iiiliabitants around the northern ports of China. . 

 Mr. Fortune's operations were equally beneficial to this country. ' ^\ M 

 To them we owe some fine varieties of Prunus and Viburnum, 

 Sprrsea pranifolia. Gardenia Fortuniana, Anemone japonica, 

 Chusan palm, Abies Koempferi, Pinus Bungeana, Campanula 

 nobUis, Berberis Fortuni, Buddlea Lindleyana, the white variety 

 of Glycine sinensis. Daphne Foi-tuni, Citrus japonica, Weigela 

 rosea, Jasminum nudiflonim, Forsythia viridissima, Cryptomeria 

 japonica, and the charming rosy Dielytra spectabilis. 



Nor must we forget many interesting varieties of Azaleas and 

 Eoses, with Moutans of colours (dark p)urple, lilac, and deep red) 

 not previously known. The small Chrysanthemum, which he 

 named the " Chusan daisy," and which has become the parent 

 of the new race called pompones, was also the product of this 

 expedition. 



Many of Mr. Fortune's discoveries on this occasion were 

 made in the green-tea districts of China. During his researches 

 he had an opportunity of making himself acquainted with the 

 cultivation and manufacture of tea, and many other matters 

 relating to the horticulture and agriculture of the Chinese, and 

 he published an account of these in a personal narrative of his 

 travels.* The knowledge he had thus acquired, shortly after- 

 wards led to his being employed by the East India Company to / SI 

 carry out their attempts to establish that branch of industry in 



* " Three Years' Wanderings in Cliina. " 



