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THE FLORIST. 



Six of the best Anemone or Aster flowering varieties, are. 



Gluck, bright yellow. 



Fleur de Marie, fine clear white. 



Nancy de Sermet, white. 



Madame Godereau, white. 

 Marguerite d'Anjou, nankeen. 

 Reine Marguerite, lilac blush. 



CHOROZEMA CORDATUM. 



Among the more beautiful and interesting of shrubby greenhouse 

 plants, the genus Chorozema stands pre-eminent. It contains some 

 of the most useful and likewise the most beautiful species in culti- 

 vation, flowering freely, as they do, nearly throughout the whole 

 year, especially during the winter and spring months, when their 

 flowers are most acceptable and valuable for decoration, or, with a 

 few others, in the formation of bouquets. Their native country is 

 New Holland. They are not difficult to cultivate ; and with a little 

 timely attention they may be easily trained to form very handsome 

 plants. There is a specimen of Chorozema cordatum in one of the 

 greenhouses at Kew, trained in the form of a spread umbrella ; it is 

 seven feet in diameter, and four feet high from the pot. Being a 

 slender-growing plant, the branches hang down so as nearly to hide 

 the pot altogether; it is at present (February) in a very healthy 

 condition, and is completely covered throughout with its beautiful 

 bright- coloured flowers. It is a well-known fact in plant cultivation, 

 that, under good treatment, free-growing kinds may be extended to 

 an extraordinary magnitude by suflicient allowance of pot and head 

 room ; and so long as they can be made to retain healthy foliage and 

 symmetrical proportions, they may be considered well- cultivated spe- 

 cimens; but they rarely can retain large dimensions long without be- 

 coming faulty, either naked at bottom, one-sided, or with an un- 

 healthy appearance, and consequently produce but a few flowers ; 

 hence the propriety of keeping a stock of young plants to succeed 

 the present ones as they dwindle away, is obvious. Oftentimes the 

 pot which a plant is cultivated in destroys the natural beauty and 

 eff"ect of the plant, by its being over large ; under such circum- 

 stances it is quite as unsightly and unnecessary, as too small a one 

 is inimical to the formation of a good specimen. The pot which the 

 above-mentioned Chorozema is cultivated in, is seventeen inches in 

 diameter, and about seventeen inches deep ; the compost in which it 

 is grown, is a mixture of peat, silver-sand, and a little leaf-mould. 

 Boy al Botanic Gardens, Kew. J. Houlston. 



