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growth. The leaves are small, and richly marked with yellow. This, 

 also, has proved a most valuable bedder, as by putting out strong 

 plants, and pegging down the shoots, it forms excellent marginal 

 lines, and if the situation is open, the foliage has a very rich appear- 

 ance. It is, perhaps, one of the finest of golden edging plants, and 

 although there is more difficulty in working up a stock than of the 

 golden feather or the golden-leaved geraniums, it can be heartily 

 recommended for the more prominent beds. It is also admirably 

 adapted for planting round the outside of vases or baskets, either 

 in the conservatory or out of doors, and also for baskets suspended 

 in the conservatory. 



There is yet another variegated form, namely, A. selloioiana mar- 

 moratuvi, which was distributed last year. This, like the first 

 mentioned, is of upright growth, but it is more robust, and the 

 leaves are largei', but they do not appear to be quite so richly 

 coloured; but in the latter respect it will probably improve con- 

 siderably when subjected to a fair trial out of doors. It is a good 

 plant for conservatory specimens, and it will most likely be also of 

 considerable value for the flower garden. 



The white-flowered Abutilon, raised in America a few years 

 since, and now quite common in English nurseries, under the desig- 

 nation of A. Boule de Neige, has proved of far greater value than 

 was at first anticipated. It is of compact growth, commences to 

 bloom whilst in a small state, and continues to produce its white 

 flowers profusely and continuously throughout the season. The 

 flower-stems are more rigid than those of striatum, and others, and 

 they consequently stand well out from the foliage, and appear to 

 greater advantage. Planted out in the flower garden, it grows 

 freely, and blooms in the most profuse manner throughout the 

 summer. 



At the February meeting of the Eoyal Horticultural Society, 

 Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, exhibited, under the name of 

 A. Darwini, a very compact and free flowering kind, with elegant 

 foliage, and bright orange and red flowers. This is, perhaps, the 

 most free flowering kind yet introduced, for although the plants 

 were only eighteen inches or so in height, they were loaded with 

 flowers. E.^amples of it were planted out last year in the Glas- 

 nevin Botanic Gardens, and nothing could have proved more satis- 

 factory, for they continued to produce flowers in abundance until 

 quite late in tbe autumn, and when lifted, put in pots, and placed 

 in the greenhouse, they soon recovered from the check, and com- 

 menced to flower again. It is not yet in commerce, but it will ver}' 

 likely be ofiered in the course of the season, and is well worthy of a 

 place in the smallest collection of greenhouse plants. 



Abutilons are so easily grown as to require very few remarks 

 bearing on the cultural details. They may ail be readily propagated 

 by means of cuttings of small side-shoots taken off" in the spring or 

 early part of the summer. Cuttings obtained from plants that have 

 been started in a gentle heat strike the most readily when they can 

 be placed in a propagating pit. If there is a greenhouse only avail- 

 able for the work, cuttings that have become rather firm will be the 



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