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NEW PLANTS FOUND. 
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native land. In the mornings the grass sparkles with 
dew, the air is cool and refreshing, the birds are singing 
in every bush, and flowers are hanging in graceful fes- 
toons from the trees and hedges. 
The new plants of the island, some of which I had"j 
discovered in the preceding autumn, I now saw in flower ' 
for the first time. Early in spring the hill-sides were 
covered with a beautiful Daphne with lilac flowers 
(Daphne Fortuni, Lindl.) ; Azalea ovata, Lindl., cer- 
tainly one of the finest and most distinct plants of this 
kind which I have introduced, also grows wild on the 
hills, and was in full bloom at this period. A fine new 
Buddlea (B. Lindleyana) had a most graceful appear- 
ance, as its long spikes of purple flowers hung in 
profusion from the hedges on the hill-sides, often side 
by side with the well-known Glycine sinensis. An- 
other plant, certainly one of the most beautiful shrubs 
of Northern China, the Weigela rosea, was first dis- 
covered in the garden of a Chinese mandarin near the 
city of Tinghae on this island. This spring it was 
loaded with its noble rose-coloured flowers, and was the i 
admiration of all who saw it, both English and Chinese. 
I have great pleasure in saying that all these plants, and 
many others, natives of Chusan, are now growing in^ 
our gardens in England. 
Ning-po is about 40 miles west from Chusan, and is 
situated on the mainland. My visits to it at different 
times during this summer were attended with much less 
difiiculty than in the preceding autumn. I was now 
beginning to speak a little Chinese, and was perfectly 
acquainted with the town, and the whole of the places 
