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CALENDAR fOll DECEMBER. 
honour lie has acquired, we willingly adopt the popular appella¬ 
tion.— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Fabaceje. —Biadelphia Becandria. 
Swainsonia cor onillcefolia (Salisbury). A very elegant green¬ 
house plant, not uncommon in collections, but much less grown 
than its merits deserve. The general habit resembles that of 
Sutherlandia frutescens, but it is superior to that plant, both in 
its growth and flowers. It is a native of New South Wales, and 
was introduced to this country by Sir Joseph Banks, so long ago 
as 1802. Its distribution has been pretty general, and its beauty 
invariably acknowledged. Yet it has failed to attract that atten¬ 
tion from cultivators which some other plants, with far less charms, 
have ensured ; and our present notice is given with a view of en¬ 
couraging its more extensive cultivation. The axillary racemes 
contain numerous richly coloured flowers; the vexillum large, 
flat, of a violet-crimson, with a greenish-yellow eye; the keel 
of a rather deeper purple than the vexillum. The flowers are 
produced almost uninterruptedly for nine months in the year, 
and the plant always derives benefit, when the blooming season 
is over, by all the stems being cut down to six or eight eyes,— 
Pax. Mag. Bot. 
CALENDAR OF FRUIT AND FORCING GARDEN 
OPERATIONS. DECEMBER. 
Fruit Garden. Continue to prune, dress, and manure among 
the plantations where necessary, taking advantage of dry frosty 
weather for the latter operation, and spreading and digging in 
the manure as soon as possible after it is once on the ground, as 
if it be left long laying in heaps, a great amount of its fertilizing 
properties is taken up by the atmosphere, or washed through by 
the rain, and when spread afterwards, its effects are very slight, 
except in the immediate neighbourhood of where the heaps lay. 
Where necessary, form new plantations of gooseberries and 
currants, and if possible, keep them in an open quarter unshaded 
by large trees. Be careful to allow a sufficient distance between 
