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Beaton, of Shrubland Park, Ipswich, who had the plant under 
his charge at Kingsbury, for the subjoined account of it. 
“ The Inga Harrisii is, indeed, a fine plant, which only re¬ 
quires the stove when in a growing state, and as it flowers on 
the last year’s wood, requires to be well cut in after blooming. 
The history of its introduction is lost. Mr. Harris bought it 
of Messrs. Lee, of Hammersmith, and unfortunately passed it as 
a new introduction to Dr, Lindley, when it flowered ; it is figured 
in the Bot. Reg. as such ; but I believe it to have been in the 
country for the last twenty years. 
Doubtless it is from the more temperate parts of tropical 
America. It strikes with great freedom, and, like many of the 
same order of plants, if subjected to a high temperature after 
its growth is finished, is immediately attacked by the red spider. 
It is one of those accommodating plants that may be treated so 
as to have in flower for a long time in succession : say to be 
partially dried and set to rest by the middle or end of July, and 
after three months to be brought into a forcing house in suc¬ 
cession, when it may be had in flower from Christmas to April; 
but treated in the ordinary way, it always flowers from the 
middle of January to the middle of February. 
D. Beaton. 
It seems to delight in an open moist soil, such as a mixture 
of peat and leaf mould in about equal quantities, and attention 
to pruning, as recommended by Mr. B., is particularly necessary, 
or it will soon become unsightly. 
The entire genus consists of about thirty species, the geo¬ 
graphical distribution of which is very wide; but all of them 
partaking, more or less, of the character of tropical plants. 
They are mostly pretty; but none that we are acquainted with 
equal our present subject. 
Inga is included in class Polygamia, and order Moncecia, of 
Linnaeus, and in the grand order Leguminosas of the natural 
system. 
Editor. 
