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habit and its glorious flowers give it as high a degree of importance for the cool 

 conservatory as the lovely Bongainvillea spectahilis has acquired in the stove and 

 intermediate houses. The following account of its management at Exeter, by Mr. 

 Pince, will supply all needful information as to its management : — '' Tacsonia Van- 

 Volxemii is undoubtedly one of the finest conservatory climbers ever introduced, 

 second only to the justly and universally admired Lapageria rosea. The healthiness, 

 vigour, and rapidity of its growth combine to make it highly desirable for pro- 

 ducing immediate effect in conservatory decoration. The flowers, which are of a 

 rosy crimson colour (fully five inches in diameter) are freely produced from the axil 

 of each leaf, and are grucefiilly suspended on long, slender foot-stalks, a foot in 

 length, so peculiarly slender and thread-like, that the flowers bang, as it were, clear 

 and detached from the foliage, and have the appearance of brilliantly-coloured 

 parachutes suspended in the air. Our plant was put into our show-house (the 

 temperature of which is only that of an average conservatory, air being freely 

 admitted, and the thermometer frequently falling as low as 38' to 40'' in winter) in 

 the middle of April 1865, and it has covered the ornamental rafter which spans the 

 house, has been clothed with flowers all through the summer, and now, at the end 

 of January, is still adorned with them. The foliage is also remarkably good, and 

 free from that coarseness which detracts much from other Tacsonias. Our plant, 

 "which is now twenty feet long, with numerous branches, is growing in a mixture 

 of rough peat, loam, and coai'se sand,, with abundance of drainage, and plenty of 

 pieces of broken brickbats, crocks, sandstone, and old lime lubble, mixed in with 

 the soil. Occasional syringing and copious supplies of water to the roots during 

 summer and autumn, promote luxuriant growth. It may be requisite now and then 

 to cut back vigorous shoots, which have flowered, in order to bring up fresh flowerino- 

 stems. From the pendent position of the flowers, it is obvious that this beautiful 

 climber can be seen to better advantage trained to a rafter or the roof of the con- 

 servatory, than if put against a wall. I have alluded to its comparative hardiness, 

 in support of which, and in addition to the general lowness of the temperature of 

 our show-house, I may say, in conclusion, that we had a plant of it growing luxu- 

 riantly on an eastern wall, out of doors, all last summer and autumn. 



MiLTONi.i ANCEPS, tioo-edged-htemmecl Miltonia {Boi.Mag., t. 5572). — Orchideffi. 

 This singular Miltonia was originally introduced from Brazil by Messrs. Loddiges, 

 but appears to have been lost. It was lately sent to Messrs. Low and Co., by Mr. 

 Blunt, and was flowered at Knypersley in the spring of 1865. The pseudo-bulbs are 

 two-leaved ; flowers one on each scape ; sepals and petals yellowish olive ; lip 

 lyre-shaped, white, with a few purple streaks and dots. 



Mu.ss.i:.VDA LUTEoi.A, Captain Grant's llusscenda {Bot. Mag., t. 5572). — 

 Eubiacese. A pretty shrub, introduced by Captain Grant, with many other plants, 

 acquired during his memorable exploration of the sources of the Nile. It is of 

 twiggy growth, the leaves ovate-lanceolate, dark green ; flowers in compact 

 corymbs, canary yellow, accompanied with the large white bracts (enlarged calyx 

 teeth) peculiar to the genus. 



THE GARDEN GUIDE FOR MAT. 



Flowers of the Month. — Greenhouse: Clethra quercifolia, Clianthus puni- 

 ceus, C. carneus, C. Dampieri, Sempervivum aizoides, S. canariense, Leptodactylon 

 Califoriiicum, Diosma succulenta, D. subulata, D. rubra, D. corymbosa, Epacris 

 grandiflora, E. miniata, Diplacus glutinosus, Eutaxia pungens, Gastrolobium 

 speciosum, Dillwynia sericea, D. junipera, D. speciosa, Olea dioica, 0. Americana, 

 Encnilus obcordatus, Bercheuiia floribunda, Gardoquia multiflora, Habrothamnus 

 elegans, Grevillea acuminata, Bignonia capreolata, Gompholobium angustifolium. — 

 Frame .- Deutzia scabra, if not forced, is now in its full beauty. Double wall- 

 flowers in pots are now at their best ; Ornithogalum thyrsoideum ; various species 

 of Genistas, Cytisus, Coronilla, and a few of the early-flowering Ixias ; also Dielytra 

 spectahilis, Sempervivum arachnoideum, Echeveria secunda. — Ericas : Andromedse- 

 flora, daphnceflora, cinerascens, Coventryana, Lawsoni, crassifolia, viridi purpurea, 

 duniosa, erubescens, ferruginea, longiflora, primuloides, procera, refulgens, Rus- 



