Exhibited. George the Fourth Heartsease, and Sálvia cardinàlis, from Mr. Silverlock. New Cos Lettuce, from Mr. H. Silverlock. Seedling Strawberries, from Jos. Lachlan, Esq. F.H.S. Cucumis Anguria, or Snake Cucumber, from Mr. S. Wilson.

Also, from the Garden of the Society. Flowers of Eschschóltzia califórnica ; Enothera hybrida, Lindleyana, odorata new var., speciòsa, Frasèri, spléndens, glauca var., and fruticosa; Petunia nyctaginiflòra, Calceolària arachnöídea, Gília capitàta, Valeriana rùbra, Pentstèmon digitàlis and pulchellus, Clarkia pulchella, Papàver nudicaúle and Rhæ`as, Verbèna Melindres and pulchella, Sweetwilliams, Silène compácta, Clématis flórida (double), Jasminum revolutum, Caprifolium sempervirens, Períploca gra ca, Hosáckia bícolor, Sida malvæflòra; Ròsa Champneyana, semperflorens pallavicina, and moschata nívea; Belle Aurore Rose, Ninon de l'Enclos standard Rose, Octavie cœrelle, Aréthuse, Duc d'Angoulême, Miaulis, Rouge Admirable, Caroline Michel, Charles Auguste, Bizarre de la Chine, Lucelle Dubours, Belle Hélène, Proserpine, Délicatesse Bizarre, Parny, Hybrid du Luxembourg, Belle Thérèse, Ròsa bífera grandiflòra, Duc d'Orléans, Georgienne Lafay, Duchesse de Montebello, Oimbre d'Autreuil, Poniatowski. Fruit of Peaches; Downton Cherry; Gooseberries, the Green Walnut, Small Green, Pigeon's Egg, Rough Red, Early Sulphur, Yellow Champagne, Early Royal George, Monck's Charles Fox, Woodward's Whitesmith, Capper's Bonny Lass, Andrew's Nelson's Wavers, and Barnfort's Golden Purse; Strawberries, the Downton, Old Pine or Carolina, Grove End Scarlet, Black Roseberry, Elton Seedling, Southborough; Raspberries, the Barnet, Bromley Hill, Spring Grove, and Woodward's Red Globe.

July 7.- The sale of certain plants took place this day, at the Chiswick garden. The plants were chiefly stove shrubs, camellias, pine-apples, pines, and araucarias. The pine-apple plants went off at good prices, to private individuals; the Pìni Douglas”, of which there were 102 plants, were purchased by Messrs. Malcolm, Knight, Tate, and Loddiges; the P. ponderòsæ, 230 plants, by Knight, Malcolm, Lee, Whitley, Tate, and Van Eden; the Araucaria imbricatæ, 100 plants, by Knight, Henderson, Ronalds, Tate, Lee, Colville, Brown of Slough, Loddiges, Malcolm, and Van Eden. We give the names of the purchasers, that amateurs may know where to apply for plants. These pines, the camellias, and the stove plants, brought fair prices; and upwards of 3001. were thus obtained.

July 15.. The garden looks fresh and beautiful, in consequence of the late rains and the present heat. It is in better order than it was last year at this time, though there are not nearly so many men; because, then, the head gardener had no heart to do any thing. The air, in some places, is scented with Mimulus moschàtus, a plant as hardy and of as rapid growth as chickweed; and invaluable for shady situations, or wherever a musky fragrance is desirable. Lathyrus califórnicus, a perennial with pods almost as large as those of the common grey pea, and with leaves and haulm altogetherresembling it, deserves a trial from amateur agriculturists. It is, doubtless, hardy enough for the coldest parts of Scotland, and would thrive well in Ireland. It appears to seed freely. We may notice, as a circumstance promising important results, that three plants of the bamboo, imported from India, and planted in a bog in the arboretum, have stood out four winters. It is true they have not grown much, but that may be owing to their not yet being sufficiently established: a bamboo, when it does grow, throws out shoots of many feet or yards in length, in the course of a few weeks, and then stops. To do this, it must first be firmly established at the roots. Our correspondent Causidicus (p. 227.) must be gratified at this circumstance. The Citron des Carmes pear and the early white Crofton apple are just about ripe. The process of naming all the plants, fruit trees, and culinary vegetables, is going on rapidly. The tallies are of cast-iron, about 13 in.

long, with an oval head 4 in. by 24 in.; the plate of metal is of one uniform thickness of one fourth of an inch, with a small rib on the back of the stem to strengthen it. The tallies are thus very light and strong. They are delivered in London, by the Carron Company, at the rate of 217. 2s. 3d. per ton, which contains about 2000 tallies. This is something more than 24d. each, and the painting and lettering cost 3d. each. It is incomparably more agreeable to walk about the garden alone, and learn the names of every thing from these labels, than have them told by an attendant; who, even if he pronounces them properly, can seldom impress them on a stranger's memory. The truth is, that all scientific names, like the words of a foreign language, to be understood and remembered, must be seen.

We wish we could see a beginning made to the alteration of this garden, according to our plan, or to any other equally good: it would then be our duty, as it would be our pleasure, to support the Society by every means in our power, short of that indiscriminate approbation which, we trust, we shall never so far forget ourselves as to bestow upon any body of men. If it be alleged that there is not money enough to commence operations, that is not a sufficient excuse for neglecting to enquire whether they ought to be commenced if there were money; and, if our plan or any other is approved of, to state that it would be carried into execution, say at the rate of an eighth, a sixth, or a fourth part in a year, till completed. If this were done, and the public saw any thing like earnestness in reformation and improvement, we have not a doubt that abundance of money would be forthcoming. We wish Mr. Bentham and Mr. Lindley were as much attached to landscape-gardening as they are to botany; we should then have no fear for the result. In the mean time, we shall keep the subject before our readers, and continue to hope. Cond.

ART. VIII. The London Nurseries.

FULHAM Nursery, June 27.— The bloom of roses here, as at Mr. Lee's, is remarkably fine; Vésta, a brilliant scarlet, is decidedly the most conspicuous. In the cold-pits we observed a large stock of good plants of Acàcia Julibrissin, Chimonanthus fràgrans, and some other shrubs from the south of France; and we hope this description of intercourse between French and English nurserymen will increase. We noticed also, what we do not recollect to have seen in any nursery before, plants of Ziziphus vulgàris, received from Genoa. This shrub is frequent as a hedge plant in the north of Italy, and its dried fruit is as common at the dessert at Milan and Genoa, as almonds or filberts are in London. The jujube has never been fairly tried in this country as a hardy fruit tree: it attains the size of the common hawthorn; the fruit is oval, about the size of an olive, red when ripe, with an oval stone within, and is of an agreeable sweetness, fresh, or dried like raisins. The jujube is generally kept in a frame, but we have little doubt that it would succeed in a warm dry situation against a wall, at least as well as the Japan quince, pomegranate, and olive trees; these also ought to be much more common in our gardens than they are.

Mr. Knight, of the Exotic Nursery, King's Road, has become the purchaser, at, it is said, 1500., of the seeds and plants brought home from Australia by Mr. Robert Baxter. The curious in botany and exotic culture, both in this country and on the Continent, will look with anxious expectation for the new productions contained in this collection. Mr. Baxter informed us that he had added sixty species to the natural order Proteace. - Cond.

Epsom Nursery. — New or rare plants which have flowered from Feb. to June:

Class I. DICOTYLEDONEÆ.

Subclass 1. THALAMIFLO`RÆ.

Ord. Ranunculaceæ. - Trib. 2. Anemoneæ. Anemòne (Dec.) Pulsatilla. -Nuttalliana Dec. A hardy perennial, flowering in March. Flowers pale purple: prefers peat; division. Trib. 3. Ranunculeæ. Ranunculus (C. Bauh.) cortusæfolius Willd. A native of the Island of Teneriffe, found growing in the fissures of rocks: here it is a frame perennial. Its ample, cordately reniform, lobed leaves, and beautiful yellow flowers, render this a very ornamental species. Flowers from April to June. Division.-Ficària (Dill.) ranunculina var. 2. pállida. Remarkable for its pale yellow flowers, which, after being expanded for a few days, become almost white. -Trib. 4. Helleborea. Aquilegia (Tourn.) glandulòsa Fisch. Sweet's B. F. G. n. s. t. 55. This beautiful species has passed invariably, in the gardens, as A. alpina: but that is a very different plant, the petals of which are blue; whereas, on the contrary, the species in question has cream-coloured petals, blue at the base only. Both species, with A. síbirica, are extremely beautiful, meriting a place in every collection. They grow with the greatest luxuriance in peat; seeds.

Dilleniaceae. Trib. 2. Dillèneæ. Candóllea (Labil.) cuneifórmis Labil. B. M. t. 2711.

Berberideæ. Berberis (L.) fasciculàta Sims, B. M. t. 2396. Aquifolium Pursh, rèpens Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1176., glumàceum Spreng. The species of Berberis here adverted to are remarkable for their evergreen pinnated foliage, and subfascicled racemes of elegant yellow flowers: flowering in March and April. Here they flower magnificently, and are perfecting seeds. They are quite hardy, delighting in peat earth, and propagated by layers; cuttings, also, root without difficulty. B. glumàcea has the handsomest foliage, and B. fasciculàta the finest flowers.

Papaveraceae. Hunnemannia (Sweet) fumariæfòlia Sweet. B. F. G. t. 276. Seeds of this rare plant were presented to Messrs. Young by Lady Mary Hussey, who had obtained them from Mexico: to this lady they are also indebted for numerous other novelties, which will be elsewhere noticed. This is a beautiful summer-flowering plant, well chosen to bear the name of the distinguished Hunnemann; and almost a fac-simile of the no less beautiful Eschscholtzia, but deprived of the orange-coloured base to the petals. Planted in the open border in May, it becomes a shrub with an erect stem, 3 ft. to 4 ft. high, much branched. The leaves are decompound, generally triternate, glaucous, with linear leaflets. The flowers are solitary, on long peduncles large, of a golden-yellow colour; highly fragrant; succeeded by a long, silique-like capsule, containing numerous seeds. Protection of a green-house; has not been propagated by cuttings.

Fumariacea. Corydalis (Dec.) bracteàta Pers. A hardy perennial, not exceeding 3 in. in height, with elegant sulphur-yellow flowers in March. Cruciferæ. Trib. 2. Alyssineæ. Dràba (Dec.) cuspidata Bieb. - Trib. 3. Thlaspidea. Hutchinsia (R. Br.) alpina R. Br.- Trib. 9. Lepidineæ. Æthionema (R. Br.) coridifolium Dec. A suffruticose plant, with procumbent branches; clothed with linear subglaucous leaves, and terminated with corymbs of elegant rosy purple flowers. Flowers from May to October. Cuttings and seeds; frame.

Cistine. Helianthemum (Dec.) procumbens Dun. Sweet's Cistíneæ, t. 68. Violarica, Viola (Tourn.) primulifòlia L. An interesting species, with white flowers; the lower petals being elegantly striped with purple. Requires a shady situation in peat.

Caryophyllea. Trib. 1. Silènec. Drypis (L.) spinòsa L.

Geraniacea. Pelargonium (L'Herit.) Alexanderianum Penny in Hørt.

Eps. ed. 2. ined.

Named in compliment to a meritorious gardening lad who has accompanied Sir James Carmichael Smyth (the governor) to the Bahama Islands; and from whose industry, and love of plants, important results are expected. A beautiful free-flowering hybrid, probably the production of some of the varieties of P. spectábile.-P. Hislopianum Penny in Hort. Eps. ed. 2. ined. (Young's William the Fourth of the gardens.) From P. exornatum, or its allies, several beautiful productions have appeared. Among them, none can vie with the present plant. The upper petals are of the richest dark-velvety colour, surpassing, by many shades, P. Yeatmaniànum; deprived, however, of the spots on the lower petals, which are peculiar to that hybrid. It is also of free growth. It is intended as a mark of distinction for your correspondent (Vol. VI. p. 48.), whose skill as a gardener and cultivator entitles him to be thus distinguished.

Subclass 2. CALYCIFLO`RE.

Leguminosa. Subord. 1. Papilionacea. Trib. 1. Sophoreæ. Thermópsis (R. Br.) fabacea Dec. Bot. Reg. t. 1272,- Trib. 2, Lotea. Cytisus (Dec.) multiflorus Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1191. A desirable, low-branching, hardy shrub, with yellow flowers in May. It seeds freely. Subtrib. 3. Clitòria. Indigofera (L.) sylvática Sieb. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3000. A green-house shrub, of unrivalled beauty among the numerous species of this genus. A native of New Holland, whence seeds were obtained by Messrs. Young in 1827. The flowers are of a bright rosy purple. Seeds freely; it is also propagated by cuttings. -Trib. 5. Phaseolea. Lupinus (Tourn.) polyphyllus Lindl. álbus, leucophyllus Doug. B. R. t. 1124. The rarest of Mr. Douglas's lupines; now in the gardens, where it is thriving in great luxuriance, and is perfecting seeds; L. áridus Doug. B. R. 1242. It appears to suffer in a soil saturated with moisture; but, in a dry situation, it is the most lovely species of the genus known to me.

Rosacea. Trib. 3. Spiræàceæ. Spira'a (L.) glaucescens Sweet. MSS. ariæfòlia Smith. Trib. 5. Dryadeæ. Sievérsia (Willd.) Péckü. Crassulacea. Trib. 1. Crassuleæ. Rhodìola (L.) asiática D. Don. Umbelliferæ. Hackquètia (Neck.) Epipactis Penny in Hort. Eps. ed. 2.

ined.

Saxifrageæ. Antiphýlla (Haw.) retùsa Haw. Sweet's B. F. G. n. s. t. 49. Drummondia (Dec.) Mitélla Penny, Hort. Eps. ed. 2. ined. — Téllima (R. Br.) grandiflora Doug. B. R. t. 1178.

Compósite. Subord. 6. Anthemideæ. Trib. 12. Chrysanthemæ. Tanacètum (L.) myriophyllum Willd.—Subord. 7. Arctotideæ. Gaillardia (Foug.) aristata Pursh, B. R. t. 1186. A grand flowering herbaceous plant, recently introduced by Mr. D. Douglas and others; which, independently of its greater stature, is a far different plant from G. bicolor. Nothing can exceed the beauty of some plants flowering here, in peat soil, upwards of 4 ft. high. A third species of this genus has been presented to Messrs. Young, by Mr. M'Nab, from Dr. Richardson's seeds, under the name of G. bícolor var., which has been named G. Richardsòni Penny in Hort. Eps, ed. 2. ined., about the size of G. bicolor, but more beautiful. All the species seed freely. — Subord. 18. Astèriæ. Nèja (D. Don) grácilis D. Don,

Subord. 19. Seneciònis. Cinerària (L.) láctea Willd,, Tussiláginis Herit. Gesnerièæ. Sinningia (Nees) Hellèri Nees. This is a fine species, nearly of the size of S. villòsa, and widely different from S. Hellèri of the Bot. Reg., which has been named S. Lindleyana Penny in Hort. Eps. ed. 2, ined., S. Hellèri Lindl. B. R. t. 997. but not of Nees. — S. villòsum Lindl. B. Reg. t. 1134. All the species are propagated slowly by cuttings. They succeed well, planted in a warm border, in the open air, during the summer months.

Ericeæ, Sect. 3. Rhodoraceae. Rhododendron (D. Don) sinénse Sweet, B. F. G. t. 290. An important addition to the lists of hardy shrubs, having

stood the preceding winter unprotected. There are several varieties of it now in cultivation, one of which will hereafter be probably ranked a species. Subclass 3. COROLLIFLO`RÆ.

Polemoniacea. Polemònium (L.) pilíferum Bot. Reg. t. 1303., villòsum Geórgi, Sweet's B. F. G. t. 266., pulcherrimum Hooker, B. M. t. 2979., hùmile Willd. B. Reg. t. 1304.

Solaneæ. Salpiglóssis (Ruiz et Pavon) Barclaiàna. Intermediate between S. stramínea and S. atropurpùrea; but inferior in beauty to either of its parents.

Scrophularina. Sect. 2. Stámina (2) Antherifera. Calceolària L. Flowers of a hybrid Calceolària have been furnished to me by Mr. T. Gellan (by whom it has been raised), intermediate between C. corymbosa and C. purpùrea; and as it is, I believe, the first hybrid of the genus, it may be named Calceolària (L.) Gellaniana. [Some hybrids have been raised in Scotland, an account of which will be found in p. 493.] A second hybrid has been raised in this nursery, intermediate between C. arachnöídea and C. corymbòsa, but has not yet flowered. I propose to name it Calceolaria (L.) Young. I have, for the sake of euphony, merely named this hybrid after these excellent cultivators. Had it been otherwise, I should have been disposed to give it a complimentary termination [Youngiana].

Labiata. Prunella (L.) Browniana Penny in Hort. Eps. ed. 2. ined. A native of New Holland, considered the same as P. vulgaris by Mr. Brown; but a comparison of the two species, in a state of cultivation, has decided them to be truly distinct. An ornamental species for rockwork ; frame. — Marrùbium (L.) astracánicum Jacq.

Acanthaceae. Ruéllia (L.) Sabiniana Wallich, Bot. Reg. t. 1238. Primulacea. Dodecatheon (L.) Meádia var. 2. major. A beautiful seedling variety of D. Meádia, Soldanella (L.) crenata Penny in Hort. Eps. ed. 2. ined, A fifth, and, as far as can be determined, an unrecorded species of the genus, approximating in size and flowers to S. alpina, but distinguished from it and the other species by its decidedly crenate leaves. S. mínima Hoppe, Sweet's B. F. G. t, 53.- Prímula (L.) mistassínica Mich. B. M. t. 2973. Certainly a distinct species from P, pusílla Goldie.— Lubínia atropurpurea B. F. G. This beautiful plant has stood the severity of the last winter unprotected; and has now about twenty flowering stems, which make a fine appearance. Anagállis (L.) Webbiana Penny. This species has also stood uninjured, and is now flowering beautifully, Polygoneæ. Rhèum austràle D. Don, B. F. G. t. 269. Passiflorea. Passiflòra (L.) ligulàris Juss. B. M. t. 2967.

Class II. MONOCOTYLEDO‘NEÆ.

Orchidea. Ophrys (L.) apífera Huds. ẞ albosépala. - Trib. 8. Cypripèdea. Cypripedium (L.) ventricòsum Swartz, B. F. G., new s. t. 1. The imaginary difficulty attending the cultivation of this interesting family of plants, has retarded their being more generally cultivated. Here they may be seen in their native luxuriance, displaying their, diversified and peculiar form; oftentimes preeminently beautiful graduating from the humble musk Orchis (Herminium monórchis) of Britain to the splendid subject of the present article, a native of Siberia. For the cretaceous species, a chalky bank, and a bed composed of Sphagnum, decayed leaves, and turfy peat, overhung by the microscopical Filices, are the only requisites to cultivate all the hardy species of the order with perfect success. The flowers of the species under consideration are of a beautiful reddish purple, continuing in beauty for several weeks.

Irideæ, Tris (Theophrastus) flavescens Redouté, B. F. G. t. 56., vérna Mich, B. F. G. t. 68. Sisyrínchium (L.) odoratíssimum Lindl. - Reneálmia (R. Br.) paniculàta R. Br. Crocus (L.) lácteus Sabine, 2. penicil

làtus.