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added in order to get at the entire cost. This is 
expeditious work, but expensive. In order to 
make the most of it, therefore, the following 
instructions should be attended to : — Gather 
the cones in the last week of October, when 
many of them will be opening naturally with 
the heat of the sun : what are not open can be 
easily broken by pressure of the hand : select 
only plump, full seeds, detach them from the 
wings by rubbing, and then put them, along 
with the wings or chuff (which weighs nothing), 
into a wax-Cloth bag. The chaff will keep the 
seeds from being bruised. In this way they 
will reach England in safety, and a great pro- 
portion of them will vegetate. In no instance 
should they be sent so as to reach this country 
later than the end of April. Upon the whole, 
I prefer the overland route for the Cedrus 
Deodara and Pinus AVebbiana. The seeds of 
the Kyle or Pinus excelsa and the Hill Cypress 
(Cupressus torulosa) do well enough in a 
common canvass bag, enclosed in a box, and 
sent by any trading vessel. The former has a 
thick shell-like covering about the kernel, 
which no doubt accounts for its withstanding 
the influence of the weather ; and the latter, 
though apparently without such protection, 
have grown remarkably well after a tedious 
voyage. The seeds of the P. excelsa, and C. 
torulosa should be steeped for two days before 
sowing in water, kept as warm as new milk : 
the Deodar, on the other hand, derives no 
benefit from this treatment. 
To a very few it may appear superfluous, 
but I well know that for the sake of the many 
it is necessary to add how such packages 
should be addressed by any one living in 
India, who has the means of sending home 
pine seeds. Small packages, as I have said, 
will be taken charge of by the post-office 
authorities in the interior of the country : 
larger ones, weighing more than fifteen lbs., 
are forwarded by pony, cooley, or cart, tra- 
velling at the following rates : — Pony, six 
days per hundred miles ; cooley, seven days 
per hundred miles ; and cart, twelve days 
per hundred miles. The package should be 
fully addressed to the parties in England for 
whom they are intended, then forwarded, by 
either of the before-named conveyances, to some 
agent at Calcutta, together with an account of 
the value and contents of each, and instruc- 
tions for them to forward the same overland 
to their London correspondents, who will duly 
receive, and communicate with the parties to 
whom they are addressed, as to when and 
where they shall be sent. The parties Beading 
must pay or be answerable for the expenses 
payable at Calcutta, and the parties receiving 
must pay the expenses in London, viz., cus- 
toms, clearing, &c. 
NEW SEEDLING PELARGONIUMS. 
During the season of the metropolitan ex- 
hibitions we took notes of all the seedling 
Pelargoniums which were exhibited; these 
notes we now lay before our readers in the 
annexed list, which may be regarded as a 
complete index to those which have appeared 
at the exhibitions of the Horticultural Society 
and the Royal Botanic Society, with one or 
two additions from the Royal South London 
Floricultural Society's shows, and half-a-dozen 
obtained bj' the late P. E. Lyne, Esq., of Ply- 
mouth, a most successful raiser of these plants ; 
we have seen cut flowers of the latter. It may 
be desirable to explain that the colour of the 
lower petals, in all cases, forms the commence- 
ment of the description. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OP SEEDLING PELARGO- 
NIUMS. 
Abd-el-Kader (Hoyle), 1846.— Pink, top. 
petals with a dark cloud, surrounded by a nar- 
row edge of crimson; centre pale; size large;, 
form good. 
Admiration (Gaines), 1846. — Rose-pink,, 
tinged with purple, dark veiny clouded top 
petals, edged with rose; medium size; second- 
rate. 
Admiration (Miller), 184!}. — Flesh-colour, 
top petals with dark cloud and narrow edge of 
pink ; uneven. 
Agricola (Catleugh), 1846. — Light rosy 
pink, veiny, top petals clouded, with an ir- 
regular and narrow edge of rose ; centre pale ; 
size small; form good. 
Atjrippina (Catleugh), 1846. — Purple rose, 
top petals with a dark veiny cloud and broad rose 
edge ; size average ; form moderately good. 
Alarm (Gaines), 1846. — Light red, top. 
petals with a dark spot ; medium. 
Albion (Thurtell), 1845. — White, top petals 
with dark clouding surrounded by purple, and 
with a white edge ; indifferent. 
Alpha (Attlee), 1845. — Flesh-colour, top 
petals with a dark spot, surrounded with a 
belt of rose colour, and edged with blush ; 
centre white ; form imperfect. 
Anti-Bacchus (Hoyle), 1840'. — Flesh-colour, 
top petals with a dark veiny cloud and a nar- 
row edge of pink ; size average ; form good. 
Attraction (Stedman), 1845. — Red ; in- 
different. 
Avewjer (Thurtell), 1845. — Flesh-colour, 
with rosy veins, top petals with a veiny cloud ; 
size medium ; indifferent. 
Bacchus (Beck), 1845.— Pink, the lower 
petals blotched and veiny, top petals with a 
dark cloud and narrow margin of the ground 
colour; size average; form excellent, Ob- 
tained a second prize at the Horticultural 
Society. 
Bird of Paradise (Goulding), 18 15. — Light 
