JANUARY. 



blotches and spots in front of rich reddish brown ; plant rather 

 shrubby, and requires high culture, 



AvRORA (Dickson and Co.), Let out in 1848. A beautiful little 

 flower, as round as a cherry; ground-colour yellow, with stripes 

 and blotches of brown in front well defined ; habit tolerably strong ; 

 stems short and branching, forming a very graceful plant. 



Village AIaid (Dickson and Co.). A nice delicate white-ground 

 variety, in the style of Aurora ; habit not so good ; nevertheless a 

 very pleasing and desirable variety. It requires a sandy peat soil, 

 not over rich. 



Ne-plus-ultua (Gaines). Let out in 1850. An attractive va- 

 riety ; ground-colour primrose, heavily marbled with crimson ; good 

 shape and habit ; tolerable culture. 



John Deans (JVilcke). Let out in 1850. A most splendid dark 

 variety, in the style of Kingliorn's Emperor; outline and shape ex- 

 cellent, and colour bright dark cherry, slightly mottled with yellow, 

 and rich in the extreme ; the habit is not very strong, and requires 

 growing in light sandy peat ; a free bloomer, and indispensable 

 variety. 



Tricolor Superb (Holmes). Let out in 1848. A fine rich 

 flower, but not of very strong habit. See drawing in the Florist for 

 February 1848. 



Symmetry (Kinghorn). Let out in 1847. A profuse bloomer; 

 yellow-orange ground, and spotted in centre with tiny brown spots ; 

 flower-stems slender, but when nicely grown makes an attractive 

 specimen. 



Whithy, December. M. Woodhouse. 



THE GLOXINIA. 



Beautiful plants are these, and of easy culture where stove-heat 

 is at command, for in warmth and moisture do they luxuriate. I 

 am now, in December 1850, just starting ray plants, never allowing 

 them a long rest. As soon as they have done flowering, I place 

 them under the wooden tank which heats one of the greenhouses, 

 where they remain until the foliage has all died down. I then clear 

 off the soil from below the crown of the bulb (as I have had them 

 rot when taken out of the pots before they had started into growth), 

 and place them under the heating-tank in the stove, where they 

 remain till well started. Then I turn them out, clear away all the 

 mould from them, and repot into equal parts peat, loam, old cow- 

 dung, and silver- sand. 



Treated thus, the following varieties will well repay the attention 

 of the cultivator : Cartonii, C. robusta, Fyfiana, Handleyana, Max- 

 ima alba, Teuchlerii, Victoria Regina, Wortleyana, and Insignis. 



Worton Cottage, Isleworth. J. Dobson. 



