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In summer they may be removed to a warm 

 green-house, where they continue longer in 

 bloom. Some of the roots should be excited 

 early, and others should follow them for as 

 long a period as the succession can be main- 

 tained. The plants will require from two 

 to three months (more or less) to grow them 

 into a flowering state. 



But, besides, by means of the separation 



of the tubers, the plants may be abundant- 

 ly propagated by planting the leaves, which 

 produce roots readily under the ordinary 

 treatment given to cuttings, and soon make 

 good plants. 



Plantations of the leaves from the growing 

 specimens, may serve to keep up the suc- 

 cession of blooming plants through the lat- 

 ter part of the year. 



REVIEWS. 



Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe.om 

 Descriptions et Figures des Plantes les plus rares 

 etplus meritantes, nouvellement introduites sur le 

 Continent ou en Angleterre, ^c L.Van Houtte, 

 Editeur, h. Gand. A Flora of the Green-houses 

 and Gardens of Europe, SfC. Edited by L. Van 

 Houtte. Ghent. 1846. Large 8vo. Price 15 

 francs, (about $3.) 



This is a very admirable work, now in 

 course of publication in Belgium. It is 

 conducted upon a plan much like that of the 

 celebrated English works, the Botanical 

 Magazineani Paxton's Magazine ; but while 

 it appears to us equal to those works in the 

 spirit and style of its literary portion, and 

 by^no means inferior in its beautiful color- 

 • ed plates, it is offered at an exceedingly low 

 price — about one-third or one-fourth of that 

 of the English periodicals. 



M. Van Houtte, who is the editor and 

 proprietor of this work, nearly two volumes 

 of which have already been issued, is the 

 most distinguished horticulturist in the Ne- 

 therlands. His commercial gardens at 

 Ghent, are well known in Europe and Ame- 

 rica, for the great variety, novelty, and ex- 

 tent of the collections they embrace. To 

 the enterprise of commerce, M. Van Houtte 

 adds the zeal of the enthusiastic amateur 

 and the ardent devotee of science. The 

 beautiful work before us is one of many 

 proofs of this. 



In conducting the Flora, M. Van Houtte 

 has the continual assistance of some of the 

 ablest pens on the continent : M. Brogniart, 

 the professor of botany, and M. Decaisne, 

 assistant naturalist at theMuseum of Natural 

 History, Paris ; M. Lemaire, the editor of the 

 Herbrier de I'Amateur ; M. Miguel, direc- 

 tor of the botanic garden of Eotterdam ; and 

 M. Scheidweiller, the professor of botany 

 at Brussels. 



To the amateur of rare plants, this work 

 is one of the most valuable and interesting 

 that we know. Each of the descriptions is 

 in English, French and German. The Eng- 

 lish text is usually copied from the Botani- 

 cal Magazine, or Paxton's Magazine — but 

 the French text, which is most copious, is 

 not a translation of this, but usually a de- 

 scription in far more racy and lively terms. 

 To those of our readers wlio are conversant 

 with the French language, we, therefore, 

 most warmly recommend M. Van Houtte's 

 periodical. 



We give an extract from one of the late 

 numbers— a part appended to the descrip- 

 tion of an exquisite air-plant — Sophronilis 

 grandijlora. It is from'the pen of the prin- 

 cipal editor, and conveys a vivid picture of 

 the attractive sites in Brazil, where this and 

 other Orchids grow with wonderful beauty 

 and luxuriance. 



