FOREIGN NOTICES. 



company with several other beautiful plants whicli liuvc also reached u?, and to which we hope 

 shortly to draw attention. Among them are Pardicn nutans, with gracefully bonding spikes of 

 wliite bracts and delocate pink flowers; Gonocafi/x pulchcr, a pretty little slinib with thick fleshy 

 nearly orbicular leaves, and numerous bright red tubular flowers; Clethra conmnUix, with leaves 

 like Vacciniian, and pretty white corymbose flowers; several magnificent i^'ariVw; the pretty 

 Bfijonia miniata, introduced last year, and already known for the ease and abundance with which 

 it flowers; and lastly, several very fine species of X/sia/t^Z/ws, which we succeeded in rai.-ing 

 from seed, but which afterwards died in spite of our utmost care." — Linden's Catalogue, 1854. 



There is a specimen of this in our herbarium, from Mr. Linden, which enables us to verify the 

 exactness of the foregoing account to a great extent. The figures in the Flore des Serres rcjirc- 

 scnts it as being one of the most glorious of plants. It is said to hold its petals, contrary to the 

 habit of Melastomads, and if so, it will far eclipse oveiy crimson flowered species in cultivation. 

 For exhibiting it will rank with Indian Azaleas or crimson Rhododendrons. The high price at 

 which it is about to be " let out," viz, 50 fr. each, shows what a value is put upon it by its spiri- 

 ted importer. 



Among Jlelastomads the genus is remarkable for having tlie operculate calyx of an Eucalyptus, 

 but buried in ferruginous felt. — Gard. Cliron. 



WrNTKRixG Verbenas. — Having succeeded in keeping the different sorts of Verbenas in small 

 pots through the winter, when my neighbors have failed, I beg to state the method I adopt. In 

 the first or second week in July, I strike in 3-inch pots as many cuttings of the different kinds as 

 I require for filling the beds in the following year, about si.K pots of a sort being sufficient. Ear- 

 ly in August, the pots being filled with roots, I prepare as many boxes, two feet square, as I have 

 sorts, filling one-third of each box with broken tiles, and the rest with one part sand, one leaf 

 mould, and two jiarts good rich loam. The plants are then placed in them at equal distances 

 apart, and the shoots being pegged down they soon take root all over the box, and form one mass. 

 The boxes are placed in a cold frame during the winter, and the lights are thrown off, except in 

 wet or frcsty weather. Early in the spring they begin to make young shoots, which I pot in 3 

 inch pots, and strike in a Cucumber frame ; these will be ready to plont out by the end of April, 

 at which time the boxes are turned out, one side being removed, and the mass planted in the 

 centre of a bed. The bed is then filled up with the young plants from the Sinch pots; those 

 out of the boxes, being oldest and strongest, take the lead and keep it ; thus the plants in the 

 centre of the bed, being the highest, a striking effect is produced. — G. F., Gard Chron. 



Begonia opultflora. — Putzcys. — "This remarkable species is as beautiful as any of the genus, 

 and will no doubt become a favorite among the many persons who admire this interesting fami- 

 ly. Some notion of the plant may be obtained by imagining a small bush with thick shining 

 leave?, covered with heads of flowers looking something like those of the common Gueldres Hose 

 { Viburnum opulus,) but of a more delicate texture and of a much purer white, and forming an 

 admiraVde background to golden yellow stamens. The species was discovered by M. Sciilim in 

 the cold regions of the province of Soto (New Grenada.) Price 15 fr." — Linden' s Catalogue, 1854. 



We know nothing of this, but it seems to be a desirable acquisition. — Gard. Chron. 



