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LII. Report on some of the more remarkable Hardy Ornamental 

 Plants raised in the Horticultural Society s Garden from seeds 

 received from Mr. David Douglas, in the years 1831, 1832, 

 1833. By George Bentham, Esq. F. L. S. Secretary. 



Read January 21, 1834. 



The reasons which induced the Council of the Horticultural 

 Society of London to engage Mr. Douglas to undertake a second 

 expedition to the North West Coast of America are mentioned in 

 the preface to the 7th volume of the Transactions, where it is also 

 stated that he embarked on the 26th of October, 1829. After a 

 prosperous voyage, he safely landed in the spring of 1830 at the 

 mouth of the Columbia River. 



Here he met with many difficulties and disappointments as to 

 the journies he had intended to make to those parts of the interior 

 which promised the best to reward his exertions. The natural ob- 

 stacles opposed by the wild state of the country were in many 

 cases rendered invincible by the dangerous character of the natives, 

 and the whole season of 1830 was consumed in short excursions in 

 the neighbourhood of the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort. 



In the winter of 1830-1831 an opportunity occurred of commu- 

 nicating with the northern part of Spanish California, of which Mr. 

 Douglas availed himself, and landed early in 1831 at San Fran- 

 cisco, from whence he proceeded to the Spanish settlement of 

 Monterey. At this place he was well received by the monks, and 

 every facility was afforded him for exploring the country in the 

 neighbourhood. He remained there the whole summer of 1831, 

 intending to return to the Columbia river in the autumn of that 

 year by the vessel which had brought him to Monterey, and which 



