the studies and enjoyments connected with a flower 
garden. At present Great Britain possesses about 
fifty species of Ribes. Of these we may reckon 
eight to be native, and eight others to have been 
introduced to this country previous to the year 1810. 
The remaining thirty-four species have been intro- 
duced since that period. When it is considered 
how short a time has elapsed since attention has 
been prominently called to the vegetable riches 
of other countries, and the almost unbounded ex- 
tent of regions yet wholly unexplored, every one 
must anticipate, with amazement, the incalculable 
variety of splendid plants which may hereafter or- 
nament our gardens. The public spirit which now 
prevails in Europe is effecting much by the main- 
tenance of botanical collectors abroad, still it will 
be readily imagined how little so few persons can 
effect in the extensive wilds of Africa and Ame- 
rica. A collector to discover the chief beauties of 
any particular district, should visit all its principal 
hills and valleys, woods and plains, not less than 
six times in the year. To do so in the least degree 
satisfactorily, and prepare a partial herbarium of 
the district, a space of country thirty miles square 
would, on the average, including barren j)arts and 
water, prove an ample portion, even for a cursory 
examination. Now' as America alone contains 
about fifteen millions of square miles, it will be 
found that it would occupy upwards of eight hun- 
dred botanists twenty years to collect the princi- 
pal riches of this country. 
The Ribes glutinosum may be propagated easily 
from cuttings, taken either in June or autumn. 
