On Glycine Sinensis. 



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brought a plant of it with him from China, and gave it to 

 Charles Hampden Turner, Esq. of Rooksnest, in Surrey, 

 who kept it in the pot in which it arrived until 1819, when 

 it first flowered. It was then turned out into the border of 

 the Conservatory, where the original plant is now growing in 

 a very flourishing state.* In the same month, but a few days 

 later, in 1816, another plant was brought by Captain Richard 

 Rawes, in the Warren Hastings East Indiaman, from China, 

 and given by him to Thomas Carey Palmer, Esq. of Brom- 

 ley, who planted it in the border of his Greenhouse, where it 

 also first blossomed in 1819, and still continues to thrive. 



From the former of these plants, the first that were propa- 

 gated were given to the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 

 and to Messrs. Loddiges, at Hackney ; from the second, the 

 earliest layers were presented to Lady Long, for her Garden 

 at Bromley Hill, and to Mr. Lee of Hammersmith, and each 

 of these, together with the original plants, have for the last 

 three or four years been objects of admiration to all who have 

 seen them. 



The blossoms shew themselves before the leaves ; their first 

 appearance is that of thick short pale green tufts, in which 

 the buds of the flowers are enveloped by long pale hairy 

 bracts, which fall off as the racemes advance. These when 

 full-grown, are from eight to fifteen inches long, each bearing 

 from eighty to an hundred flowers on an average ; they are 

 pendent, and have much resemblance to those of a Laburnum, 

 except that they are of a very delicate blush lilac colour, with 



* In 1825 this plant, which had grown up a column of ten feet high, had spread 

 its branches to nearly ten feet each way, and produced upwards of five hundred 

 bunches of blossoms. 



