Ib4 THE FLORIST. 



deep yellow flowers. It is one of the best and most showy species in cultivation, 

 attaining the height of three or four feet. It is a native of Swan River. 



PiTCAiRNiA EXSCAPA. A curious and rather handsome stove- piant, belonging 

 to the Pine-apple tribe, having narrow leaves three feet long, and bearing a 

 densely bracteated spike of red flowers springing from a kind of pseudo-bulb at 

 the base of the plant. It is a native of New Grenada, and was imported among 

 some Orchids purchased by Messrs. Jackson of Kingston, with whom it has 

 flowered. These two are figured in the Botanical Magazine for July. 



Clematis integrifolta. This very handsome species is one of the best of 

 the genus. It grows freely and flowers copiously in common garden soil, at- 

 taining the height of about three feet. It is quite hardy, and destitute of that 

 straggling habit so common in this genus. It is well suited for planting in beds, 

 borders, or in a clump on the lawn. It has large opposite entire leaves, and light 

 blue flowers more than two inches in diameter. 



Clematis diversifolia. A showy hardy species, with a rather straggling 

 habit. It is w'ell adapted for beds, clumps, or for planting against a wall. It 

 grows freely in common garden soil, attaining the height of six or seven feet. 

 If })lanted in the centre of a large bed or clump, and supported with a strong 

 stake, it has a charming eff^ect when in flower. It has moderate-sized pinnate 

 leaves, and deep blue flowers three inches in diameter. 



Callistemon SALiGXA. Fcw hard-wooded greenhouse shrubs are more truly 

 beautiful at the present season than this. It is an evergreen very much resem- 

 bling a Melaleuca, and forms a handsome bush five or six feet high. The flowers 

 are produced on the young branches in elongated sessile clusters of a bright red 

 or rose colour. It is a plant well adapted for a greenhouse or conservatory, or 

 it will withstand the vicissitude of our climate when planted against a wall, if 

 matted up during severe frosty weather. 



Broughtonia lilacina. a very delicate and beautiful Orchid, having small 

 flattened elongated pseudo- bulbs, bearing several leaves on the apex, and a 

 slender purple scape, with a racemose crowded group of large delicate flowers, 

 of a beautiful lilac tint veined with purple ; the blossoms remain a long time in 

 perfection. It is a native of St. Domingo, and has flowered with S. Rucker, 

 Esq., Wandsworth, and with Messrs. Henderson, nurserymen. Pine-apple Place. 



Acacia grandis. A showy neat greenhouse shrub, forming a moderate- 

 sized bush, and flowering freely in a small state. It is of easy culture, and said 

 to flower rather late in the season, which is an acquisition to this tribe of plants. 

 It flowered in the nursery of Messrs. Henderson in the spring of the present 

 year; the flowers are produced from the axils of the leaves on peduncles, which 

 bear globose heads of yellow flowers, one on each. The above three plants are 

 figured in the Magazine of Botany for July. 



The utility of Acacias as winter and early spring flowering plants is familiar 

 to all Horticulturists, and generally appreciated ; for although their flowers are 

 mostly of a yellow colour, thej^ have a diversity of foliage, which in many of the 

 species is exceedingly neat, and being mostly profuse blooming plants, they 

 have, in the spring months, a very gay appearance. It is the most extensive 

 genus of Leguminosje, containing between 200 and 300 species, which are natives 

 of tropical and sub-tropical regions, and are very aliundant in New Holland. 

 More than a hundred of them that are greenhouse species are in cultivation at 

 Kew, among which are many that are but of little interest, except in a botanical 

 point of view. The following list, in addition to the two species above-noticed, 

 contains the best and most showy kinds, which are well worth cultivation, and 

 are most suitable for small collections. The flowers of Section 1. are collected 

 into globose heads, with a solitary head on each peduncle ; and those of Sec- 

 tion II. are in cylindrical spikes, or racemose heads, along the axillary peduncles, 



section I. 



pulchella. conferta. argyrophylla. 



linearis. sulcata. decipiens. 



rutaefolia. hybrida. diptera. 



armata. praemorsa. suaveolens. 



difi^usa. ovata. silicifolia. 



undulaefolia. pentadenia. pendula. 



