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XXVIII. Directions for Cucumber growing for the Market, as prac- 

 tised by James Cuthill, Camberwell .... 184 



XXIX. Journal of a Mission to California in search of Plants. By 

 Mr. Theodor Hartweg, in the service of the Horticul- 

 tural Society. Part III. Continued from Vol. II., p. 121 187 



XXX. On the beneficial Effects of an Annual Root-cutting with 

 certain Fruit-bearing Plants. By Mr. R. Errington, 

 C.M.H.S., Gardener to Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Eger- 

 ton, Bart, M.P., F.H.S 191 



XXXI. Report on the Fruit and Kitchen Gardens near Paris, from 



observations made during a Visit in the Spring of 1847. 

 By Mr. Robert Thompson, Superintendent of the Orchard 

 and Kitchen Garden . . . . . .195 



XXXII. A History of the Species of Crocus. By the Hon. and 



Very Rev. Wm. Herbert, F.H.S., Dean of Manchester . 249 



XXXIII. Two New Species of Achimenes. By Mr. George Gordon, 



Superintendent of the Plant Department in the Society's 

 Garden. ( With a Coloured Plate) .... 293 



XXXIV. On the Culture of Roses, more especially the Propping, 



and Training of Tall, Climbing, or Tree-Roses. By Mr. 

 Alexander Forsyth, C.M.H.S., Gardener to the Earl of 

 Shrewsbury, F.H.S., Alton Towers . . ... 294 



XXXV. On the Treatment and Propagation of the Japan Anemone 



(Anemone Japonica). By Mr. George Gordon, Superin- 

 tendent of the Ornamental Department in the Society's 

 Garden 301 



XXXVI. The Vinery at Castle Malgwyn, near Pembroke, the seat 



of A. L. Gower, Esq., F.H.S. By Mr. W. Hutchison, 

 Gardener there ..... . 303* 



New Plants, &c, from the Society's Garden : — 



1. Aconitum autumnale ........ 77 



2. Pinus Grenvilleae . . . . . . . . ib. 



3. Pinus Gordoniana . . . . . . . .79 



4. Spiraea pubescens . . . . . . . .157 



5. Forsythia viridissima ........ ib. 



6. Cerasus japonica . . . . . , . .158 



7. Pinus Wincesteriana . . . . . . ib. 



8. Akebia quinata . . . . . . . .,160 



9. Viburnum plicatum ........ 243 



10. Berberis parviflora ........ ib. 



11. Viburnum macrocephalum . 244 



12. Amomum vitellinum 245 



13. Berberis hypoleuca ........ 246 



14. Pleurothallis Smithiana . . . . . . . 247 



15. Tacsonia mollissima . . . . t . . 248 



16. Echeveria retusa ........ 306 



1 7. Raphiolepis indica ........ ib. 



18. Spirsea prunifolia, flore pleno .. . . . . .307 



19. Bletia Gebina ......... ib. 



20. Pholidota chinensis 308 



21. Pseonia Moutan ib. 



