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GESNEREA. 
Gesneria Cooperi,Mi\ Cooper’s Gesneria_This elegant species 
was sent to the late Mrs. Arnold Harrison, with other varieties, by 
her brother, from Brazil, about five years ago. The best soil for it, 
is sandy loam and peat. It is easily propagated by cuttings, planted 
in sand or mould plunged in heat, and covered with a hell glass. It 
also produces plenty of seeds .—Paxtons Mag. of Bot. 224. 
CLASS II. 
PLANTS WITH ONLY ONE COTYLEDONE (MONOCTYLEDONES.) 
AMARYLLIDE2E. 
Alstrcemeria pelegrina alba, Spotted flowered Alstromeria, 
White variety.—This is a very handsome variety. The roots of all 
the species of this splendid genus abound in a nutritive foecular 
which may be prepared for food : the natives of Chili obtain from 
the roots of one of the species a substance resembling arrow-root.— 
Paxtons Mag. of Bot. 199. 
orchidia:. 
Batemannia Collegi, Colley’sBatemannia—Sent from Demarara 
to James Bateman, Esq. by Mr. Colley, his collector in that country, 
who has just returned from a successful mission with a considerable 
number of epiphytes, which are new to our gardens. The flowers 
are red, white, and purple.— Bot. Reg. 1714. 
ARTICLE V.—LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Notwithstanding the desertion of the Metropolis at this season. 
Horticulture and Botany have been sufficiently attractive to draw 
together a tolerable attendance of visitors at the exhibitions which 
we are about to record. In consequence of the advanced period of 
the year, however, a comparison will not bear being made between 
them and those which have already taken place, marked, as they 
were, by such eminent success, both in regard to the patronage 
which was afforded to them, and the general splendour of the different 
collections brought into competition. At the exhibition in the 
Society’s Garden, on the 13th of September, the number of contri¬ 
butors was very great, particularly of Dahlias. In this class of 
flowers, the skill of Messrs. Glenny, Brown, and Widnall, was very 
apparent, their nurseries having yielded the choicest imaginable, 
both in form and colour. The selections of Messrs. Brewer, of 
Cambridge; Wilmer, of Sunbury; and Girling, of Stowmarket, 
were also very good. The fruit was in greater quantity than before, 
and was remarkably fine, especially the Grapes, Pine Apples, and 
