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THE FLORAL WOELD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



NOTES ON NEW PLANTS. 



CLERODENDRON CRtTENTUM. 



Among the many greenhouse and stove 

 species of clerodendron, the one exhibited 

 by Mr. Veitch, under the above name, 

 before the Floricultural Committee of the 

 Horticultural Society, on the 12th of 

 April, must take a high and a leading place. 

 The cleroclendrons are interesting shrubs, 

 belonging to the natural order Verbenacese. 

 There are about fifty known stove species, 

 and nearly a dozen greenhouse species, of 

 which one, C. fragrans, gives vis a double 

 flowering variety, which is highly esteemed 

 for its autumn flowers. The general 

 routine of management is to grow them in 

 a mixture of yellow loam, turfy peat, dung 

 from a melon-bed, and loose charred 

 rubbish. They require complete rest in 



consists of crimson lobes, which add to the 

 intensity of the colouring of the flowers. 

 There is some question at present if it be 

 a true species, but for horticultural pur- 

 poses it may be regarded as such, as it is 

 quite distinct in character and unique in 

 its beauty as a most desirable stove shrub. 

 It was discovered by Mr. Thomas Lobb iu 

 tropical Asia. 



ALSTRCEMERIA ARGENTO-A T ITTATA. 



This showy variety of a favourite 

 family of ornamental plants requires some 

 care in its cultivation to keep it true. The 

 flowers come in large clusters of scarlet 

 and orange, intensely coloured and boldly 

 displayed, and their effect is heightened by 

 the charming foliage, every leaf having a 



winter, and a steady heat to make their 

 new spring growth, previovis to which they 

 should be pruned. C. cruentum bears a 

 fine head of orange-red flowers, the red 

 beino- intense, and the orange tone subordi- 

 nate to it. The leaves are deep green, 

 oblong, ten inches in length; the flower- 

 stalks clothed with a short glandular 

 pubescence, and the calyx of the flower 



broad silvery stripe down the centre on 

 each side of the mid-rib, the margins of 

 the leaves being a healthy green. Though 

 the most prized among the alstroemerias do 

 best in deep loam in warm positions out 

 of doors, this variegated variety is by no 

 means hardy, but must have plenty of pot 

 room and good drainage, a rich humid soil, 

 and the temperature of a cool greenhouse. 



