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house or frame; but we may observe that at Kew many of the species 
have survived two winters in the open borders, generally sheltered by 
other shrubs, and all that are in cultivation, one winter, viz. that of 
1852—3,—a season not a little trying to many delicate plants. Those 
which have already flowered are as follows :— 
1. The first with us was in the spring of 1852, the R. ciliatum, Hook. 
fil. Sik. Rhod. tab. 24, and figured from our plant in Bot. Mag. tab. 
4648; and this is now (April 1853) showing flower-buds in the open 
border, we believe in several gardens: and further, during the present 
month, in a cool greenhouse with us, a group of fifteen to twenty of 
these plants, from six inches to a foot high, in pots, is a mass of 
flowers, a perfect pieture, varying exceedingly in the colour of the co- 
rollas, from the purest white to deep lilac, though none is so deep as 
the usual colour of the flower in Himalaya. 
2. The R. lepidotum, Wall., to which should be united R. eleagnoides 
and R. salignum, Hook. fil. Sik. Rhod. tab. 23, and R. obovatum, ejusd. 
3. R. Dalhousie, Hook. fil. Sik. Rhod. tab. 1 and 2.—The great merit 
of having flowered this glorious plant is due to the skill of Mr. Laing, - 
Gardener at Dysart House, Kirkaldy, N. B., and mainly perhaps to its 
having been inarched upon a tall plant of R. Ponticum. Its noble 
flowers were produced in a cool greenhouse in March of the present 
year; and our figure, which will appear in the June number of ‘ Bota- 
nical Magazine,’ will show that it is no way inferior to the representa- 
tion given by Dr. Hooker, quoted above, differing indeed somewhat re- 
markably in colour from the ative plant, for whereas that has usually 
a delicate tinge of pink, this is suffused with an equally delicate tinge 
of full or almost orange-yellow. The scent is delicious, compared to 
that of lemons, or rather perhaps the lemon-coloured Verbena. We | 
believe Messrs. Standish and Noble have inarched some of their plants, 
and are expecting the like success to result from the operation. In 
East Nepal and Sikkim it grows at elevations varying from 8000 to - 
10,000 feet; and there seems no reason why it should not prove quite 
hardy with us. 
4. In the present month, April 1853, R. glaucum, Hook. fil. Sik. 
Rhod. t. 17, is flowering well, and is remarkable for the glaucous colour 
of the underside of the leaves and for the great development of the 
calyx. The corolla is about an inch long and as much broad, and the - 
flowers grow several together at the ends of the branches. Its range in 
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