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& tall herbaceous plant; the stems winged, 

 (somewhat like Ammobium alatum,) and 

 terminated by large corrymbs of exquisite 

 pale blue blossoms. It is a green-house 

 plant of rare beauty. 



Bru7isvigia Josephina. — A fine plate of 

 this well known Cape of Good Hope exotic; 

 one of the grandest of all bulbous plants, — 

 the bulb growing as large as a man's head, 

 and supporting a superb umbel of 50 or 60 

 flowers. M. Van Houtte gives us the very 

 agreeable news, that this bulb stands the 

 winter in the open air, in Belgium, with 

 only slight protection. 



Camellia Wilderii, and C. Mrs. Jlilder. 

 — These two American seedlings, raised by 

 the President of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society, are figured and very highly 

 praised by M. Van Houtte. The former, 

 which is a clear light rose colour, is pro- 

 nounced — "superior to most of the finest 

 camellias that we possess." Of the latter, 

 one of the editors says — "this is perfectio7i 

 in the fullest sense of the word among 

 modern horticulturists. The imbrication 

 is perfect; the petals extremely numerous, 

 (90 to 100,) rounded at the circumference 

 of the flower, and slightly ovate towards 

 the centre; are pure white, but painted 

 with two or three delicate lines of rose 

 colour down the centre. The foliage is 

 large, and of a fine rich green; and the 

 shrub itself is remarkable for its vigor and 

 fine habit." 



Camellia General Lafayette, is another 

 superb variety, originated by Mr. Boll, flo- 

 rist, New-York. The flower is fine, the 

 petals cupped, the colour deep rose, marked 

 with broad band-like stripes of white down 

 to centre of each petal. 



Agalmyla staminea. — A Java plant, with 

 brilliant scarlet blossom?, requiring the hot- 

 house. 



Fuchsia spectabalis. — A very large mag- 

 nificent Fuchsia lately discovered in the 

 Andes, and brought to Europe by M. Lobb, 

 the botanical traveller. Dr. Hooker, who 

 has bestowed on it the epithet of — " loveli- 

 est of the lovely," places it at the head of 

 all Fuchsias. The flowers are very large, 

 with a tube an inch and a half long, and the 

 petals expanded, like those of the olean- 

 der. The colour is a brilliant red, the foli- 

 age large, and the habit of the plant vigor- 

 ous. 



The commercial florist and nurseryman, 

 who wishes to keep himself informed of the 

 most interesting novelties of the day, will 

 find this monthly an invaluable assistance; 

 with the advantage, too, that the Van 

 Houtte Garden, at Ghent, will supply any 

 of the new or rare plants that are described 

 in the work itself. 



As a beautiful example for the library 

 or boudoir, of a richly illustrated foreign 

 work, there are few more interesting to the 

 amateur of plants than the Flore des 

 Serre. 



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Notes from the Continext. — [We give some 

 further extracts from an interesting letter, received 

 from our foreign correspondent by the last steam- 

 er. Ed.] 



* * * At Lausanne we saw a lawn, kept hj 

 the scissors and broom, by two women, who clipped 

 some part of it every day. It was, of course, not 

 large — perhaps an acre j but it looked like a piece 

 of green velvet of the choicest pile. It was so 

 short that it was almost difficult to seize in your 



fingers a blade of grass, and so thick that you could 

 not see the soil through it. * * * * * 

 In the neighborhood of Frankfort, we went to a 

 German party in the country, at a fine English-like 

 place, where, though in the evening, everything 

 was done out of doors. We were received in a 

 quiet secluded part of the grounds, beneath some 

 immense trees, the lower branches of which were 

 hung with pretty variegated paper lanthorns. Half 

 a dozen tables stood about, with their difierent tea 



