250 
DOUBLE SWEET-WILLIAMS, 
library, furniture, effects at the garden, their 
stock of Transactions, Journals, and Cata- 
logues, wood blocks, copperplates, 18,148/. ; 
good debts and subscriptions for the year, 
3,531/. 19s. 6d. ; in all 21,679/. 19*. 6d., more 
than 13,000/. above sufficient to pay the debt. 
The Report informs us that Mr. Hartweg has 
returned from California, and his engagement 
brought to a close, and that the Council do 
not propose at present to send out another 
collector. A pair of new boilers has been 
placed in the conservatory, and the Council 
report very favourably of their capacity to 
heat the building, while a most important 
feature in their management is that they can 
be maintained forty-eight hours without addi- 
tional fuel. We are further informed of the 
good effects of the reading-room at the par- 
dens, and the close attendance of many of the 
gardeners ; this must have the best effect on 
the minds of the men, and their progress in 
other studies is favourably mentioned, Dr. 
Lindley occasionally lecturing on subjects per- 
taining to their studies, and giving prizes for 
their advancement. In short, there appears 
to have been a new life infused into the exe- 
cutive, a seeming determination to carry out 
the objects of the Society, and advance the 
science; this will not fail to produce, emula- 
tion among the Fellows to second the efforts 
of the Council. As our readers may be in- 
terested in seeing the novelties introduced by 
their collector, we insert from the Report a 
list of the seeds, which have been distributed 
among the Fellows as far as they would go. 
Novelties introduced by the Society's col- 
lector (Mr. Hartweg) from California: — 
Ceanothus -dentatus. A shrub 3 feet high. 
In open places near Monterey. 
Ceanothus rigidus. An evergreen shrub 
4 — 5 feet high. In open places near Monterey. 
Ceanothus papiitlosus, A shrub 10 feet 
high. Mountains of Santa Cruz. 
Ceanothus cuneatus. A shrub 6 — 8 feet 
high. Sacramento Mountains. 
Ceanothus integerrimus? An evergreen 
shrub 10 feet high. Santa Cruz Mountains. 
Abronia sp., with purple flowers. A peren- 
nial. In the sands near the sea- shore, San 
Luis Obispo. 
Cercocarpus sp. An evergreen shrub 1.0 
feet liigh. Carmel Mountains. Very curious. 
Monardella undulata. An annual. In 
fields near Monterey. 
Lupifms qffinis. An annual. In woods 
near Monterey. 
JPentstemon cordifolius. A shrub 4 feet 
high. Mountains of Santa Ines. 
PenUtemon heterophyllus. From the Sa- 
cramento Valley. 
Pentstemon azureus. On a dry ferrugi- 
neous clav. Mountains of Santa Ines. 
Cerasus ilinfolia, called " Islay." An ever- 
green shrub or small tree. Mountains of San 
Antonio and San Luis Obispo. 
Itihes ferox. A shrub 4 — 5 feet high. On 
sand-hills near San Francisco ; in damp and 
shady places near San Luis Obispo. 
Limnanthes rosea. In swampy places of 
the Sacramento Valley. 
Limnanthes alba. From the plains of the 
Sacramento Valley ; in moist places. 
Castanea chrysophylla. The evergreen 
chestnut. 
Nemophila maculata. From the Sacra- 
mento Mountains. 
CoUinsia tinctoria. An annual from the 
Sacramento Mountains. 
Diervilla sp. A half climbing shrub 6 — 12 
feet high. In woods near Carmel Bay, Mon- 
terey. 
Pinus tuber culata. A tree 15 — 20 feet 
high. Mountains of Santa Cruz. 
Pinus radiata. From near the sea-shore, 
near San Luis Obispo. 
Pinus murieata. Woods near Monterey. 
Pinus Fremontiana, or Nut Pine. 
Cupressus Goveniana. A shrub 6 — 10 feet 
high. On decomposed granite in the woods 
near Monterey. 
Adenostoma fasciculaia. A shrub 3 feet 
high. In open places near Monterey. 
Fcheveria pulverulent a. From the Moun- 
tains of Santa Ines. 
Mhamnus sp. A dwarf evergreen shrub, 
found near the sea-shore, Monterey. 
Laurus regalis. A large tree. Mountains 
of Santa Cruz and Sonoma. 
Rhamnus oleafolius. A shrub 6 — 8 feet 
high. Woods near Monterey. 
Nuttattia cerasifonnis. A shrub 2 feet 
high. Woods near Monterey. 
Cyclobothra monopliylla. A bulb from the 
Sacramento Mountains. 
Prodicea californica. Plains of the Sacra- 
mento Valley. 
Jatropha podagrica, called " Ruibarbo," 
from Nicaragua. " The thick part of the 
stem is used by the inhabitants of Nicaragua 
instead of Rhubarb." 
Leptosiphon aureus. An annual. From 
the Sacramento Valley. 
Mimulus tricolor. From the plains of the 
Sacramento Valley. 
DOUBLE SWEET-WILLIAMS. 
The visitors to Hampton-Court Gardens, 
who take an interest in such things, will not 
have failed to observe a bed of double Sweet- 
Williams, saved at different times from seed, and 
when once saved, piped, or layered, or slipped, 
to propagate the sort, that it might not be lost. 
In a large quantity of seedlings there may be, 
