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patch. It flowers very freel}' through the summer, and even until late in au- 

 tumn, producing large yellow flowers. Being a native of the elevated region of 

 Sikkim Himalaya, it may be expected to be hardy. 



Impatiens I'ULCHEHRiMA is a succulcnt tender stove annual, having very 

 showy flowers, which are produced abundantly through the summer months. It 

 is a native of Bombay, and may be considered one of the flnest of Indian 

 Balsams. 



FiTz-uoYA Patagomca is a hardy evergreen sub-antarctic Conifer, which was 

 found growing in great abundance on the Pacific side of Patagonia. It is stated 

 to be one of the most interesting of the South American kinds. Small plants 

 only of it are in cultivation, in the nursery of Messrs. Veitch, to whom the seed 

 was transmitted by their collector, Mr. W. Lobb. The above four are figured 

 in the Botanical Magazine for November. 



LiLiuM LoDDiGESiANUM. A hardy bulbous plant, growing about two or three 

 feet high, and having an erect terminal raceme of a few large yellow flowers, each 

 two or three times as long as its stalk, with tlie divisions of the flower rolled 

 back. It was raised by Mr. Loddiges from Russian seed, and is a native of the 

 Caucasus. 



Aerides roseum. An East Indian Orchid, and one of the most beautiful of 

 the genus to which it belongs. It has been long known in cultivation, and is 

 nearly allied to A. affine. It is a stift"-growing phint, with drooping dense ra- 

 cemes of rosy-coloured flowers, and is one that should be in every collection. 



Brownea ariza. a brilliant -flowering evergreen stove -tree, that deserves 

 extensive cultivation. It flowers freely wth ordinary treatment, producing its 

 blossoms in a short spike, on the side of the main stem, forming a globe of glow- 

 ing crimson. It was found by Mr. Hartweg, in woods in the province of Bogota, 

 where it attains the height of thirty or forty feet, and was transmitted by him to 

 the Horticultural Society, at Chiswick. These last three are figured in Paxton's 

 Flower-Garden for October. 



BuDDLEA Madagascariensis. This evergreen slender-growing hard-wooded 

 stove-shrub has been several years in cultivation. It is a very neat-flowering and 

 free-growing species, suitable for planting against a wall, pillar, or trellis-work, 

 requiring plenty of head and pot room. Under such circumstances it becomes 

 a very interesting object. A plant of it was planted out nearly two years ago, 

 and trained on a trellis near the glass, in the great Palm-house at Kew, where 

 it is now twelve or fourteen feet high, and covers a space nearly as wide, and is 

 at this dull season of the year thickly covered with its large panicles of orange- 

 coloured flowers. 



Royal Botanic Gardens^ Kew. J. Houlston. 



HINTS ON THE HYACINTH. 



Since the publication of the last Florist, we have been appealed to 

 by a lady in terms which we cannot resist, to give a paper on the 

 cultivation of the Hyacinth. In her note she says, " I have no gar- 

 den, but am passionately fond of flowers (what lady is not ?), especially 

 of the Hyacinth ; but from some cause which I cannot explain, mine 

 never succeed as I could wish. If, good Mr. Editor, you can give 

 me a few practical hints in your next Number which will enable me 

 to succeed better in future, I shall be exceedingly grateful." Of 

 course, we shall do all in our power to merit the gratitude of so inte- 

 resting a correspondent ; and we are sure our readers will not accuse 

 us of vanity when we say, that no small degree of our popularity is 

 due to lady gardeners. We always write on garden subjects with 

 pleasure ; and when we know, as in the present instance, that our 



