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and furnished with large, handsome, glaucous-green leaves, and canary-yellow 

 flowers of a showy character. 



Cymbidium pendulum atropurpureum {Hot. Mag., t. 5710). — Orchidaceae. 

 A showy stove epiphyte, with tufted stems and tall ensiform equitant leaves. The 

 large dark purple flowers, which are produced in drooping racemes, have a broadish 

 recurved white lip, tinged with rose-colour, and bear a yellow disk. 



Greyia Sutherlandi, Sutherland's Greyia {Flore des Serres, t. 1739). — 

 Saxifragacese (Harv.) ; Sapindacece (Benth. and Hook). A handsome greenhouse 

 shrub, with stoutish stems and branches, bearing alternate sub-cordate leaves, and 

 showy scarlet flowers, crowded in long thick terminal racemes. 



Nierembeegia frutescens {V Eort. Franc, 1868-9, t. It. — Solanaceoe. A 

 free, bushy-growing perennial, bearing a profusion of white saucer-shaped flowers, 

 an inch broad, and slightly stained with lilac. Native of the Chilian Andes. 



Plectopoma n^egelioides aukeo-roseum {Flore des Serres, t. 1747-8). — 

 Gesneraceoe. A charming hothouse perennial, having erect branching red stems, 

 clothed with ovate leaves, and bearing large Gloxinia-like flowers of a rosy-lilac 

 colour, yellow in the throat, and dotted with minute bright carmine spots. 



Plectopoma n^glioides Candida {Flore des Serres, t. 1749-50). — Gesneracere. 

 A remarkable stove perennial, with erect branching green stems, furnished with 

 ovate leaves, and bearing a profusion of large attractive pure -white flowers. 



Plectopoma njsglioides bicolor {Flore des Serres, t. 1751-2). — Gesneraceae. 

 A beautiful stove perennial, with erect branched green steins, streaked with red, 

 ovate leaves and large flowers ; upper part of the tube bright clear red, the lower 

 part yellow, and the lower lip bordered with red. 



Plectopoma n.»:gliotdes corallinum {Flore des Serres, t. 1745-6). — Gesne- 

 raceae. A distinct stove perennial, with erect red fleshy stems, ovate acuminate 

 velvety green leaves, and large flowers of a deep rosy red, yellowish and spotted in 

 the throat. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Taking Honey without Destroying the Bees. — Apiarian. — There are many 

 modes of accomplishing this, but, without doubt, the simplest and safest is that 

 described by Mr. Hibberd in the Garden Oracle, which has been followed by him 

 for many years at Stoke Newington. The operation is to be performed at midday. 

 The super is first carefully loosened by prising up with a chisel, and passing a string 

 through to cut any comb attached to the crown board. It is then lifted and carried 

 away, and placed close down on a board, so that not a bee can escape from it. In 

 the course of five minutes it is lifted quickly, and carried to another place and left 

 open for a few minutes while a gentle tapping is made upon it. In this way the 

 bees are dislodged wholesale without one being hurt. In the course of a quarter of 

 an hour the box may be carried to half-a-dozen different places, and at every one a 

 mass of bees will be dislodged. The end of the process is to turn the box up, and 

 sit down on the grass, and whisk out with a feather what few bees remain amongst 

 the combs. When all are out, put the box somewhere safe against intruders, for the 

 bees will search for it and empty it, if they can obtain access to it. 



Erecting a Cold Conservatory'. — J. C. H. — It is a capital idea to cover the 

 space with glass. "We should form a rockery, and plant it with hardy ferns. Train 

 over the roof a goodly collection of free-flowering Clematis, such as Prince of 

 Wales, Rubella, Jaclcmanni, Rubro-violacea, and Standishi. You might grow a 

 few Rhododendrons in pots for spring, and a collection of Japanese and other lilies 

 for summer and autumn decoration to mix with the ferns. The following hardy 

 herbaceous plants form fine specimens in pots, and have a good effect grown that 

 ■way : — Spirea japonica, Aspidistra lurida variegata, Dielytra spectabilis, Anemone 

 vitifolia Honorine Jobert, Campanula rotundifolia, Funkia lancasfolia variegata, and 

 Convallaria majalis striata, Richardia ^Ethiopica, Eucomis undulata, Herbaceous 

 Phloxes, and Herbaceous Lobelias. With the above, and a few annuals, such as 

 Balsams, Phlox Drummondi, Asters, Larkspurs, Nemophila, and a few others, you 

 may keep your house gay through the summer. A few specimen Cannas would 



