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Many of the scarcely hardy coniferse might 

 be made to grow in proper houses. The 

 conservatories, as we generally see them, are 

 too hot, and, consequently, no half-hardy 

 tree that delights in abundance of air passing 

 about and over it can live comfortably in a 

 close heated atmosphere. Even Bedwill's 

 Araucaria, and several more of the family, 

 would grow much better in a cooler, clearer 

 house than we see them growing in. Plenty 



we have copied the figure of the flower, that 

 nothing like this, so far as he knows, has ever 

 been received from the old world ; but that 

 it is evidently allied to a species gathered 

 by Ruoz and Pavon in Peru. — C. caudatum 

 of Dr Lindley. 



It is stemless, with large fleshy vernacular 

 roots; leaves, lo to 12 inches in length, 

 two arising from the same root ; oblong, 

 coriaceo-carnose, dark green, subcanalicu 



Fig. 5.— Leucadendron argenteum — Branch and Cone. 



of light, and only sufficient heat to keep back 

 frost, is what is wanted for such an ornamental 

 tree as the Silver Tree of the Cape. 



CYPRIPEDIUM STONEI. 



An importation by Messrs Low & Co., 

 from Sarawak, by Mr Day of Totten- 

 ham. Of this species Hooker says in the 

 " Botanical Magazine," tab. 5349, from which 



late, very obtuse, with a short mucro. Scape 

 radical, with a large sheathing bract at the 

 base, ■: terminating (in the specimen from 

 which the description was taken) in three 

 large bracteated pedicelled flowers. Dorsal 

 sepal white within, streaked and mottled 

 with dark purple externally, and tinged with 

 yellow— the lower sepal (two coalesced into 

 one) similarly coloured. Petals, 4 to 5 

 inches long, curved downwards, tawny yel- 



