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national debt, I leave to the consideration of those who are competent 
to form a more correct opinion on the subject than I am. Some 
newspapers,” the author adds, “ are continually giving statements of 
the comparative prices of wheat in England and on the continent. It 
is not the price of food in any country that proves whether it is cheap 
or dear; the proof is the relative value which the wages of the labour¬ 
ing classes bear to itbut this these papers studiously avoid doing, 
truth not being their object. 
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Edwards’s Botanical Register, continued by Dr. Bindley. The 
March number contains : — 
1. Stanhopea insignis. Noble Stanhopea. This is certainly one 
of the finest of the order Ovcliidece , or, as it is now pronounced and 
written, Orchidacea:, and of that natural order it belongs to the section 
Vandeje. It was described as Epidendrum grandijiorum by Humb. 
and BoJipl, ; as Anguloa grandiflora by Kunlh; and by its present 
name by Hooker and Lindley. The plant has been before figured, 
both in the Botanical Magazine and in the Botanical Cabinet; but 
the subscribers to the Register cannot but be gratified with this figure, 
as the flowers and dissections are represented with great accuracy. 
The plant is a native of South America, and is one of those which 
produce their spikes in a dangling position ; and therefore it requires 
to be potted high up in the pot, lest the sides obstruct the escape of the 
flower-stem. 
2. Kennedia glabrata. Smooth-leaved Kennedia. A greenhouse 
climber, belonging to the natural order Leguminosce ; introduced into 
this country from New Holland, and flowered last year at Mr. Knight’s, 
King’s Road, Chelsea. The flowers are bright scarlet, with a green 
spot, bordered with brown at the base of the standard. 
3. Tristania macrophylla. Large-leaved Tristania. An Australian 
tree, which flowered last year in the collection of Richard Harrison, 
Esq., of Liverpool. With that gentleman it became a bush four feet 
high, and discharges its bark like the Arbutus Andrachne. The plant 
belongs to Myrtacece; the solitary flowers bear some resemblance to 
those of the barren strawberry, but the foliage is good and showy. Dr. 
Lindley has added some account of the five other species of the same 
genus, from information communicated by Mr. Allan Cunningham. 
4. (Enothera serotina. Late-flowering Evening Primrose. This 
