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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



crops were enormously heavy, but there was a good deal of blight on the 

 apples. Instead of painting them, however, I shall, before they break this 



collection of Peaches and Cherries, but no vines, I shall syringe with ammo- 

 niacal liquor from the gas-works, diluted with six times the quantity of water, 

 and used quite hot. I shall do this just as the buds are opening, and I know 

 that all their enemies will be settled for at least a season. 



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NEW STOVE AND GEEENHOUSE PLANTS. 



INTRODUCED LAST YEAR. 



Selected from the "National Garden Almanack, 1858. 



GREENHOUSE AND COOL STOVE. 

 Achimenes rosea magnified. A desirable 

 addition to the plants of this class ; flowers 

 large, rosy purple, the eye spotted with 

 yellow. A garden hybrid. Mr. Parsons. 



Achimenes splendens. (Illust. Bouquet. 

 10.) Also called Tapina splendens. A 

 beautiful dwarf trailing stove perennial, 

 adapted for baskets ; flowers numerous, 

 separate, from the axils of the broad 

 crowded tufted leaves ; rich glowing scarlet, 

 gemmate with warts around the throat. 

 New Grenada. Messrs. E. G. Henderson 

 and Son. 



Aii&otochilus Veitchi. A handsome dwarf 

 stove orchidaceous plant, for bell-glass cul- 

 ture ; leaves very handsome, green, beauti- 

 fully streaked and veined with silver. India. 

 Messrs. Veitch and Sons. ' 



Arduina grandiflora. An evergreen green- 

 house shrub, with sweet-scented white 

 blossoms, also bearing crimson fruit, which 

 are said to be richly flavoured. South 

 Africa. Messrs. Eollisson. 



Bovardia Hogarth. (Illust. Bouq. t. 3.) 

 A handsome greenhouse or half-hardy sub- 

 shrub, with Ixora-like bunches of flowers ; 

 deep salmon pink, with a paler tube. A 

 garden hybrid (longiflora X leiantha). 

 Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son. 



Bouvardia Laura. (Illust. Bouq. t. 3.) 

 A fine greenhouse or half-hardy sub-shrub, 

 with large Ixora-like bunches of flowers ; 

 pale pink. A garden hybrid (longiflora X 

 leiantha). Messrs. E. G. Henderson and 

 Son. 



Calythrix virgata. A neat and elegant, 

 though not showy, greenhouse evergreen 

 shrub, of slender, spreading almost pendant 

 habit, with heath-like branches, and nume- 

 rous white starry flowers in bunches. N. 

 Holland. Messrs. A. Henderson and Co. 

 Camellia reticulata flore-pleno. (Bot. Mag. 



t. 4976.) This differs from the common 

 sort in having the flowers loosely double ; 

 they are of the same, or even a brighter rich 

 rose colour, and larger, sometimes 5^ inches 

 in diameter. A magnificent conservatory 

 bush. China. Messrs. Standish and Noble. 

 Cyancphyllum magniflcum. A fine-leaved 

 nielastomaceous plant, the leaves being very 

 large, a foot long, and nearly half as much 

 wide, and beautifully stained with purple on 

 the under surface. New Grenada. M. Linden. 

 Doronicum Baurgcei. (Bot. Mag. t. 4994.) 

 A branched erect greenhouse sub-shrub, 

 with purple cineraria-like flowers, the leaves 

 lyrate pinnatifid ; a showy and free- growing 

 plant, intimately related to cineraria. Canary 

 Isles. Kew Botanic Gardens. 



Echeveria canaliculata. (Bot. Mag., t. 

 4986.) One of a set of curious and pretty 

 succulent greenhouse shrubs, with a short 

 upright stem, oblong, tapering, fleshy leaves 

 tinged with purple, and racemes of flowers 

 of a bright brick red, orange within. 

 Mexico. Kew Botanic Gardens. 



Epigynmm acuminatum. (Bot. Mag., t.) 

 5010.) A beautiful vaccinaceous evergreen 

 shrub of dwarf habit, probably requiring 

 only a greenhouse ; flowers abundant, coral 

 red, in drooping corymbs from the stem 

 below the leaves. Bhotan and Khasya. 

 Mr. Nuttall. 



Eucharis amazonica. (Flore d. Serres, t. 

 1216 — 1217.) A charming evergreen bul- 

 bous stove plant, with broad deep green 

 leaves and large white flowers, the central 

 cup tinged with green. The flowers are 

 upwards of 4 inches in diameter, pendant 

 from the top to an erect scape, and having 

 a slender curved tube ; related to and closely 

 resembling E. grandiflora, of which it is, 

 perhaps, a large flowered variety. Para. 

 N. Linden. 



Gardenia citriodora. (Bot. Mag., t. 



