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liciCj UUI u was Killed uie winter before last. II. 
Harpur Crewe, Drayton-Beauchamp Rectory, Tring, 
Aicgust 8. [It is certainly not the if. undulata of the> 
Bot. Mag. ; nor is that the same a| N. longiflora, if 
Sweet’s figure of the latter, referred to at p. 141, is to 
be trusted; but|the latter figure,! as we ^ ave sa ^> 
comes nearest t<f N. affinis of any see have been able 
to consult. Eds|] 
Gardeners’ |Royal Benevolent Institution.— 
I beg to infofn you that up t#and including this 
morning, the gaimber of responds to the appeal on 
behalf of the iflnsion Augmentation Fund is 301, and 
the amount contributed is ,£36$ 9*. 4 d., being an 
average of a Jrifle over £ 1 4 s. fc|r each response. I 
take this opportunity of stating t|kt I purpose attend¬ 
ing the Great Show at Manchester, on the 24th inst., 
and through the kindness of me managers of the 
Gardeners' cthronicle I shall have an office there, and 
I shall be ]§tppy to receive sutlicriptions, collecting 
cards, &c.,io enrol new memb^s, and to afford any 
informatior that 
Secretary , Tavistock Roto,'Co\ 
W.C . 
Philesi; 
Dublin, ar 
of it I hav 
plants 
side of the|fri 
in diamete 
grown so 
hiding the 
each tub h! s 
proportions 
clothed wi 
blooming 
shrubs an 
also at C< 
buxifolia. — This I is quite hardy in 
flowers freely. By-far the finest plants 
ever seen are in the fine collection of 
Crawford’s, Lakelands, Cork. At each 
ront door are two lai^e tubs, about 4 feet 
completely filled with Philesia. It has 
igorously that it ha$gs over the edges, 
part of the tup, and every season 
dreds of fully expanded blooms. In 
reality Desfontainea fpinosa attains the 
of a shrub 6 feet highland 4 feet through, 
h foliage to the groind, and just now 
rofusely. In the nic® collection of rare 
trees got together % Mr. Gumbleton, 
, is a grand plant offEmbothrium coc- 
th A ftnon air. "piiHrpl v nnnrotected. 
