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This Veronica makes a good plant for a front 

 line on a conservatory stage, and is very use- 

 ful for mixing among other dwarf j^lants. — 

 Gardeners' Record. 



Vitis tvicusiiidata. — A plant of this 

 elegant cool greenhouse, or rather hardy 

 climber, should be grown in very cool corridor 

 or conservatory, where a vigorous growing 

 plant is desirable. Grown under these con- 

 ditions and planted out in a moderately rich 

 border, it develops A^ery fine foliage of a 

 bronzy green color, and is one of the very 

 best of foliage plants for such purposes. 



Piichinff PUitits. — Plants always travel 

 better by being sent upright in round baskets 

 with sticks and mats round them ; no system 

 invented up to the present is equal to this, 

 but it is the most expensive. 



All delicate leaved plants, such as varie 

 gated Pelargonium, suffer by the foliage being 

 broken and otherwise disfigured by all other 

 modes of package. The next best system is 

 a good box, and the plants laid down and all 

 spaces filled up with moss or small shavings, 

 and as many plants turned out of pots con- 

 sistent with safety, and put in sugar paper. 

 This is a capital way of sending such things 

 as tender Zonale, etc. More common things, 

 as bedding plants, etc., are laid down with 

 their roots wrapped up in paper to keep them 

 together. By this means, the weight of the 

 pots is saved. A great quantity can be 

 packed in a small space and at a small ex- 

 pense, and the carriage cost is but trifling to 

 any part. H. Cannell. 



New Golden Fern {Gymnogramma de- 

 composita). — As a garden plant, this new 

 golden fern will take the position of a com- 

 panion to the silvery G. puhhella, the size, 

 fine cutting, and triangular outline of the 

 fronds producing a certain amount of simi- 

 larity, though botanically, the two are per- 

 fectly distinct. It was introduced from the 

 Andes of South America, by John Gair, 

 Esq., of Falkirk, by whom it was sent to 

 Kew, and from thence it has been distributed. 

 The fronds are nearly deltoid in outline, 

 membraneous in texture, and qnadripinnati- 

 fied in division, supported on dark chestnut. 



brown shiny stripes, more than a foot long, 

 clothed with sulphury meal at the base, and 

 furnished with a few scattered, pale brown 

 scales. The pinnae are set on tolerably close, 

 of a clear green color ; the pinnules close 

 lanceolate-deltoid, the tertiary segments pal- 

 matifidly cut down into linear acute segments, 

 and bearing the sulphur-yellow sori through 

 the whole length of the vein. It is a fine 

 stove species, the large triangular fronds 

 having a peculiarly elegant appearance from 

 these fine cuttings, while the minute finger- 

 like divisions into which the lobes are split 

 up, give it a distinctive character. — The 

 Florist. 



New White Lilac. — Mdlle Legraye, florist 

 of Liege, has succeeded in raising a new 

 variety of white lilac which is described in 

 the Bi'lgique Horticole as being exceedingly 

 fine, the flowers being of large size, good 

 substance, and of the purest white color, with 

 anthers of a golden yellow, and arranged in 

 large well furnished clusters. The jury at 

 the International Exhibition at Maestricht, 

 awarded the plant a first prize, and also 

 bestowed upon it the title of Reine des Pays- 

 Bas (Queen of the Netherlands). 



Novelties in, the Kew Gardens. — A 

 correspondent of the London Journal of Hor- 

 ticulture, writes in a gossipy manner respect- 

 ing several novelties at the Kew Gardens. 

 Several Yuccas are in flower. Y. reciirvifo- 

 lia is perhaps the most handsome, partly 

 from the graceful habit of its recurved foliage. 

 On the rockwork is Sediini arborevm. a dis- 

 tinct species apparently unpublished. It is 

 of a perennial of erect branching habit ; the 

 leaves are small and terete, or on the stouter 

 stems shorter and of conical form ; the flowers 

 are white. 



Lilium philadelphicurn is a striking species 

 about one foot high. The flowers are orange 

 color with dark spots. It has a distinct ap- 

 pearance from the long claw of the perianth 

 segments. In the orchid house, in flower are 

 two plants of Oncidium Lanceanam, one of 

 which has an extremely fine spike. The 

 flowers are richly colored with a lip nearly 

 white. Two of the flowers at the top are 



