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and the present (December IGth) we have had a very heavy fall of snow. The weather con 

 tinned open and fine up to the evening of the 2-ith of November. On the 25th it was cold 

 and freezing; on the 2d of December it commenced snowing, and continued for four or five 

 days, until it was between two and three feet deep. Heavy falls of rain took the place of 

 snow eastward. On the 14th or 15th December, a thaw came, and a good portion of the 

 snow has disappeared, the ground is yet quite free from frost, and well covered with snow. 



The Flore des Serves* for October last, has an unusually interesting set of plates : 



1. The Hexacentris Mysore ns is, var. lutea — A magnificent plant, with large clusters of 

 golden flowers. 



2. Ti'opical Palms, Oncosperma Jilamentosa, and Licula spinosa, from the Islands of 

 Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 



3. A hardy Alpine plant, Soldanella alpina — A low plant like a Primrose, with round 

 leaves and pretty fringed blue flowers. It flowers in the spring and requires the same 

 treatment as other Alpine plants. 



4. The Rhododendron, ariorea Amhroisle — A superb variety, with flowers white in the 

 center, bordered and pencilled with vermilhon — quite a novelty. Eaised by Mr. Dallieee, 

 horticulturist at Ledeberg. 



5. The Habrothamnus aurantiacus of Kegel, or Oestrum Eegeli of Plaxchon. Plan- 

 onoN, after Danal, regards the Habrothamnus as a section of the genus Oestrum, and as 

 there has been a Oestrum aurantiaca a long time in the gardens, adopts the name Oestrum 

 Eegeli. It is a fine plant, with racemes of brilliant orange flowers, in habit like the well- 

 known R. elegans. 



6. The Gentiana Fortuni — A handsome plant, with blue bell-shaped flowers, like our 

 native species Sa2)onaria, &c. It is from the North of China, and it is supposed will stand 

 the climate of England and Belgium in the open air. We think it will stand here too. 



Y. Tecoma spectaliUs, from New Genada, has bright yellow flowers as large as those of 

 the Bignonia radicans, introduced by M. Linden, of Brussels, through his collector M. 



SCHLIM. 



8, Green-Houses and Aquarium of Mr. Oppenheim, at Cologne. The aquarium is devo- 

 ted to the Victoria regia and a few NympTimas., N^elumiiums, and other interesting aquatics. 

 The houses are said to have cost $3,000 ; the heating cost $600. The aquarium is nearly 

 fifty feet in diameter ; the basin in the middle, thirty-three feet, said to be the largest that 

 has yet been built in Europe. 



The lonantopliyllum miniatum — A large and beautiful Amaryllis, has bee* noticed as 

 Vallota miniata in the Gardeners'' Chronicle. Flowers yellow in the center, bordered 

 with rose. 



In a note Mr. Yan Hotjtte says, that, "the Spiraa callosa (Fortuni) is at this moment 

 literally covered with large corymbs of purplish flowers. It is a fine plant, and perfectly 



hardy." 



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TuE Revue JSorticole for ICth of September, has a notice of the Cahjcanthus occidentalism 

 or macrojihylla, of California, by PLANcnoN. He says it is easily distinguished from the 

 floridus by its larger and more oval leaves, and by its flowers being larger and lighter 

 colored. The odor is less agreeable than in the others. "We have the plant, but it haa not 

 bloomed yet. 



* This work is received with great Irregularity, 



