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Melicocca, Guilamlina , Musa, Myrislica , a wild species bearing 
inferior nuts, and many other well-known genera. 
Among the plants new to us we find memorandums of a tree pro¬ 
fusely covered with spikes of flowers resembling those of the Catalpa 
in Pentandria Monogynia ; a shrub as showy as the Rhododendron 
poniicum, belonging to Decandria ; another shrub with procumbent 
branches covered with dark purple pentandrious flowers; a beautiful 
tree with smooth compound leaves like those of the walnut, and 
bearing long pendent racemes of bright yellow flowers, Decandria 
Monogynia. 
We collected many seeds and specimens at this place, but could 
take no plants on board. This island, from its rich soil and non¬ 
liability to drought, promises to be a fine field for the introduction of 
every valuable plant found in the same latitude, as spices, dye-stuffs, 
drugs, &c., and besides the hills are said to contain some rich veins 
of tin. (To be continued.') 
Gardeners’ Societies. —In our two or three preceding numbers 
there have appeared communications from several of our readers on the 
subject of gardeners’ societies. They all regret the apathy of their 
brethren relative to such associations; and consider it a serious loss to 
the whole fraternity that there is no such thing on the western side of 
the metropolis, where there are so many nurseries and gardens employ¬ 
ing many young men in pursuit of their business, and who would most 
probably be glad to unite themselves with such a society. Some 
associations of the kind already exist in the eastern and northern 
suburbs, and therefore the want of something similar on the western 
side is most severely felt. It is astonishing, they say, that while 
almost every other grade of the labouring population have their clubs, 
or fixed places of resort to meet their brethren, the gardeners alone are 
a dispersed flock of individuals, without any bond of union or common 
means for facilitating either professional or even social intercourse. 
Trades’ unions are happily almost done away with ; but they have 
still their houses of call. These associations are formed for very dif¬ 
ferent purposes than would appertain to a society of practical gardeners. 
The former are for defining and protecting their professional rights, 
real or imaginary. The latter would be for personal intercourse, 
mutual instruction, and rational as well as profitable recreation. 
Man is a social being, and in the intervals of labour must rely on 
his own resources for amusement, either by reading or by seeking con¬ 
genial society, where he may relieve his mind of cogitated ideas, or 
refresh or improve it by the oral intelligence of others. If he seek 
