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small Campanulas, Linarias, and subjects that, even in hotter coun- 

 tries than ours, find a home on the sunniest and barest crags. The 

 chief care in the management of this wall of Alpine flowers would be 

 in preventing weeds or coarse plants from taking root and overrunning 

 the choice gems. When these are once observed, they can be easily 

 prevented from making any further progress by continually cutting off 

 their shoots as they appear ; it would never be necessary to disturb the 

 wall even in the case of a thriving Convolvulus. The wall of Alpine 

 plants may be placed in any convenient position in or near the garden ; 

 there is no reason why a portion of the walls usually devoted to 

 climbers should not be prepared as I describe. The boundary-walls 

 of multitudes of small gardens would look better graced by Alpine 

 flowers than bare, as they usually are. However, once it is generally 

 known that the very walls may be jewelled with this exquisite plant- 

 life, it need not be pointed out where opportunities may be found for 

 developing it." 



NEW PLANTS OF THE PAST MONTH. 



Among Palms — and we are constantly receiving some beautiful things 

 in this way — the following have received first-class certificates : Oncos- 

 permum Van Houtteii, Pritchardia pacifica, and Raphis humilis, from 

 Messrs Veitch & Sons; Korthalsia robusta and Bactris marissa, from 

 Messrs Rollisson & Sons ; Geonoma elegans, Geonoma speciosa, Wel- 

 fia regia, and Cycas Armstrongii, from Mr William Bull, — all valuable 

 additions to these beautiful decorative plants. 



Then of foliaged plants the following new species have received the 

 same award : Pandanus decorus and Ansechtochilus pardina, both 

 from Mr William Bull, the former novel in character, the latter 

 prettily marked ; Pandanus Veitchii, Dieffenbachia Bowmannii, Aralia 

 Veitchii, Ficus dealbata, a large, broad, deep-green-leaved species, the 

 under side of the leaves being of a beautiful silvery white ; and Cyan- 

 ophyllum spectandrum, from Messrs Veitch & Sons. 



New Orchids do not now appear so frequently as they did two and 

 three months ago. Foremost stands Mr Dominy's new Hybrid Cyp- 

 ripedium Dominianum, raised at Messrs Veitch & Sons' nurseries from 

 a cross between C. caudatum and C. Pearcei ; and a very prettily-spotted 

 iErides maculatum, from the same exhibitors, to each of which first- 

 class certificates were awarded ; also to Trichopilia crispa marginata, a 

 very handsome Orchid, with a large deep claret-coloured lip, and with 

 bronze white-edged undulated petals and sepals, from Mr B. S. 



