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suits. The training of many ladies is bad in this respect, and they 

 have been taught to dread fresh air, and to fancy there is pestilence 

 in a foggy day. Where there are tendencies to disease, I will give 

 no advice ; but, in healthy subjects, sufficient clothing and brisk 

 exercise will keep coughs and colds at a distance, even in very dull 

 weather. Health will circulate in the veins, and hilarity sparkle in 

 the eye, and natural carmine mantle on the cheek of those of our 

 fair readers who accustom themselves to do the lighter parts of gar- 

 dening with their own hands. 



The Bury, Luton. Henry Burgess. 



NEW PLANTS. 



Under this head we have this month, with the exception of one or 

 two plants, little very striking to record. The last Number of the 

 Journal of the Horticultural Society makes us acquainted with — 



Swammerdamia antennaria. — A little hardy evergreen shrub, from Van Dieman's 

 Land, with small white flower-heads, which add little to its beauty, the latter 

 being confined to the foliage. 



Limnanthes rosea. — A prostrate, succulent plant, from California. It is a hardy 

 annual, but of no beauty, the flowers being of a pale, dirty rose-colour. It 

 is of less interest than L. Douglasii. 



JEschynanthus Paxtoni. — A new species, from Messrs. Henderson, of the Wel- 

 lington Road Nursery. It forms a trailing, half-shrubby stove plant, with 

 dull red flowers, having a flat limb divided into four nearly equal lobs, which 

 are square at the ends, as if they had been cut off. 



Polygonum vaccinifolium is stated to be a pretty, trailing, hardy species, the deep, 

 rose-coloured flowers affording suitable decoration for rock- work in autumn. 



Cyclobothea monophylla. — A hardy little yellow-flowered bulb, suitable for the 

 American border. 



Abronia nmbellata. — A very pretty, nearly hardy, sweet-smelling Californian 

 creeper, bearing heads of lilac flowers like a Verbena. It requires the same 

 treatment as the latter-named plant. 



Miltonia Karwinskii. — One of the finest Orchids in cultivation. It produces 

 long flower-stems, like those of an Oncidium, richly ornamented with flowers 

 two and a half inches in diameter; the lip half white, half violet; the sepals 

 and petals yellow, barred with brown. 



Brodicea Calif ornxca. — A rather pretty blue hardy bulb, requiring the same 

 treatment as Scillas. 



Curtis' s Botanical Magazine for January contains, in addition to the 

 usual scientific descriptions, cultural directions for each of the plants 

 figured, — a new feature of much importance to the work. Of the 

 plants it brings under notice, the following are the most beautiful : — 

 Cereus Leeanus. — From Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith, who received it from France. 

 It is a Mexican species, with semi-double imbricated brick-red flowers, appa- 

 rently tw r o inches across. The plant, which grows about one foot high, will 

 succeed in a greenhouse. 

 Mirbelxa Meisneri. — From Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. It is a lovely 



purple pea-flowered greenhouse plant, and should be in every collection. 

 Scutellaria macrantha. — This is stated to be a truly handsome and perfectly 

 hardy plant, suited for bedding. It produces numerous spikes of purple 

 flowers. 

 Heterotrichum macrodon. — A somewhat coarse-growing stove shrub, like a Mela- 

 stoma, having clusters of large white flowers, which are stated to be produced 

 in succession for many weeks together. 



