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them suitable for planting in masses, for whicli purpose other proper- 

 ties than size and shape of individual flowers — essential points in the 

 eyes of a professed Florist — are requisite. A close and compact mode 

 of growth, and bright- coloured flowers freely produced, are of much 

 greater value to a flower-gardener than all the properties required in 

 order to stamp a new variety with a Florist's approbation. 



Upon looking over the previous Ladies' Pages, we have not de- 

 tected many mistakes of consequence, although no doubt much 

 useful information has been omitted, especially as regards the orna- 

 mental trees and shrubs best adapted for small gardens. As before 

 remarked, however, this matter can be discussed in future Ladies* 

 Pages ; or, in case it should be thought better to incorporate this 

 portion of the Florist wdth the monthly calendar of operations, so as 

 to make both parts more generally useful, we will undertake to write 

 an occasional paper upon this subject. One error demands correction 

 at page 106, where a Scarlet Geranium named Reidii is highly spoken 

 of; but further experience has proved it to be scarcely, if at all, dis- 

 tinguishable from an older variety called Master Squeers. It is per- 

 haps hardly w^orth while to allude to some few typographical errors 

 which escaped notice till too late to correct them ; we will therefore 

 only remark that the botanical name of the Throatwort Campanula 

 ought to have been C. Tracheliiim. 



In closing these papers, we may be permitted to express a hope 

 that some few have derived profitable instruction from them, and 

 that the result may be seen in their gardens being more beautiful in 

 the coming season than they have been in the past. 



J. B. Whiting. 



NEW PLANTS. 



Figured in the Botanical Magazine for November. 



PiMELEA MACROCEPHALA. A branching evergreen greenhouse shrub, about 

 two or three feet high, and much resembling P. spectabilis. It has large dense 

 heads of flowers of a very pale rose-colour, with orange anthers. It was raised 

 by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. from Swan-River seeds. 



AsTRAP.EA viscosA. An evergreen stove tree, of robust growth; uninteresting, 

 unless for large collections. Native country Madagascar. 



HoYA CAMPANULATA. An evergreen twining stove plant, having pendulous 

 umbels of large broad shallow bell-shaped waxy flowers of a pale-green or buff 

 colour. It is a native of the mountain districts of Java, and was imported by 

 Messrs. Veitch. 



Freziera tiieoides. a glabrous shrubby evergreen stove plant, remarkable 

 fo/ its near resemblance in leaves and flowers to Tlica Bohea, or the Black Tea 

 <Jf China. The flowers are creamy white, and one inch and a half in diameter. 

 Native country Jamaica, where it attains the height of twenty feet. 



EcniTES franciscea, var. floribus sulphureis. An unattractive evergreen 

 stove twiner, having sulphur-coloured flowers marked with red. A native of 

 Brazil. 



Almeidea rubra, a hard-wooded evergreen stove shrub, about four feet 

 high, bearing small panicles of flowers of a deep rose-colour. Brought to Kew 

 from Liege. 



