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several kinds of Wwdanthe, Acroclinium and its white variety, 

 Waitzia grandijiora, and perhaps one or tvro others, Helichrysum 

 Iracieatwn, incurvum, macranthum, and atrosanguineuni, and perhaps 

 Xerantlietnum annuum, which is a fine border annual. Sow all except 

 the last, which grows as free as oats, very carefully on a warm sunny 

 border, about the last week in April or first in May ; if possible in 

 light sandy soil. But it is perhaps a surer way to start in pots, or 

 on the bed of a spent hotbed, and then, after gradually hardening ofi", 

 plant out before the plants are in the least drawn. These remarks 

 apply chiefly to the Ehodanthes, which are the most delicate, but 

 which I think are worth taking any amount of pains with. It should 

 be carefully noted that tliey should be cut when young and fresh, 

 and before the seeding process begins in the least. When I have 

 got a nice lot of grasses and everlastings, the way I arrange them is 

 in vases of various sizes filled with dry silver sand, allowing the 

 grasses to droop naturally over, supporting Waitzia grandiflora and 

 the helichrysums with bits of tliin wire as the stem becomes limp 

 after cutting ; the rhodantbes support their heads bravely, as well as 

 when growing, from the firm wiry nature of their stems. If we 

 think it worth while to Avire flowers that last but a day or two, we 

 shall not begrudge it to those which last for months. 



Having begun this paper with a little about the very sweet 

 subject of spring flowers, I thought of ending it with one equally 

 so — " Hardy Fragrant Flowers," but space forbids just now ; if ever 

 done it must be at another time. To treat adequately of ladies' 

 flowers would require from me a chapter monthly a whole year round, 

 and I have not hoped to do much more than open up the subject in 

 this ; confident, however, that every plant named is worthy the 

 honour assigned it, and certain to give mucli pleasure to its fair 

 cultivators. 



NEW PLANTS. 



uBBiETiA DELTOiDRA Campbei.li {JJ Illustration Horiicole, t. 455). 

 — Brassicacece. This fine variety of a well-known hardy herbaceous 

 plant was raised by Jlr. Campbell, of Brighton, and is apparently a 

 true hybrid. The habit of the plant is bushy and compact. The 

 flowers are very freely produced ; they are large, and of a fine purplish 



blue colour. c ^ • i.u 



Here is a plant which represents a large family, all of which are ot value in the 

 f'arden yet how few cultivators in the present day have any care about them. 

 Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, of St. John's Wood, have lately introduced several 

 beautiful varieties of Aubrietias, which surpass in beauty the other forms, but 

 even these latter unimproved, and we might almost say unknown, are deserving 

 the attention of the lovers of real beauty, and especially of those amongst them who 

 do not need a plant to be rare or costly, in order to win their admiration. On a 

 raised bank of sandy loam, fully exposed to all weathers, what beautiful things are 

 the Aubrietias, and how well they associate with Arabic albida, Draha azoides, 

 Arenaria verna, Ahjssum saxatile, and the best of the saxifrages. The time may 

 return when such borders will be seen in every good garden. 



Calceolari.v HYSSoriFOLiA {Botanical Magazine, t. 5548).— Scrophularine». 

 This is a fine sl)rubby species from the Quitenian Andes, which has lately flowered 

 in the fine collection of plants belonging to Anderson Henry, Esq., of Trinity, 



