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studded with clusters of beautitul bell- 

 shaped flowers. Each of these flowers is 

 an inch long, richl}' variegated and marked 

 with crimson and pale green. The inter- 

 nal structure of the flower is both elegant 

 and curious. 



This plant comes from Northern India. 

 Van Houtte informs us that, planted out 

 in a Camellia house, this plant, with him, 

 two years planted, began to bloom in De- 

 cember, and furnished a succession of blos- 

 soms until the middle of April. " Planted 

 out in the border of a conservatory, the 

 Thibaudia will be one of its principal orna- 

 ments, both by the great number and the 

 elegantly varied colour of its flowers." 



LiEBiGiA spEciosA. Elegant Liehigia. 

 This most elegant new plant, from Java, 

 has been named in honour of Baron Lie- 

 big, the great chemist. It is a new ge- 

 nus — to the ordinary observer, something 

 between a Gloxinia and a Pentstemon. The 

 flowers are parti-coloured, pure white, ex- 

 quisitely marked with deep blue, on the up- 

 per part of the corolla. The leaves are 

 large, oblong, accuminate : the plant grows 



quite erect, with a branching stem, and its 

 handsome habit, and the great number of 

 blossoms which it bears, in fascicles, at 

 every joint, render it a very attractive ob- 

 ject. It grows freely in rich soil, with the 

 same culture as Gesneras and Gloxinias, 

 and blooms during a considerable part of 

 the season. We hope soon to hear of its 

 introduction into the United States, 



Cereus grandiflorus maynardi. May- 

 nard's Cereus. A very fine new hybrid 

 Cereus, raised in England, which we find 

 figured in Paxtoii's Magazine. It is a true 

 cross, obtained by fertilizing the pistil of 

 Cereus speciosissifna, with the pollen of C. 

 grandijlorus, the Night-blooming Cereus. 

 The properties of the two parents are strik- 

 ingly embodied in the offspring — for jMay- 

 nard's Cereus has the roundish stem and 

 peculiar habit of growth of the Night- 

 blooming Cereus, with the rich colour of 

 its mother plant. Unlike the Night-bloom- 

 ing Cereus, and like C. spedosissivms, the 

 flowers last several days ; and they are 

 produced in all the abundance which dis- 

 tinguishes the latter variety. The diame- 

 ter of the flowers is nine or ten inches. 



HINTS AND DESIGNS FOR RUSTIC BUILDINGS. 



It must be a very highly finished scene, 

 and a garden where all the details are in 

 a ver}' decided and ornate style of art, in 

 which marble temples, statues, or even high- 

 ly finished pavilions and summer-houses, 

 may be introduced with harmony and pro- 

 priety. 



Hence, it is only in the first class of coun- 

 try residences, where the mansion or vil- 

 la, and all its accessories, are in a high style 

 of art, that classically embellished struc- 

 tures, or sculptural ornaments enter, with 

 good taste, into the decoration of the gar- 

 den or landscape scenery. 



But the more humble and simple cottage 

 grounds, the rural walks of (We fernie ornec, 

 and the modest garden of the suburban 

 amateur, have also their ornamental ob- 

 jects and rural buildings — in their place, 

 as charming and spirited as the more ariis- 

 tical embellishments which surround the 

 palladian villa. 



These are the seats, bowers, grottoes 

 and arbors, of rustic work — than which 

 nothing can be more easily and economically 

 constructed, nor can add more to the rural 

 or picturesque expression of the scene. 



Those simple buildings, often construct- 



