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Godetia grandiflora. — A new hardy annual from Columbia. The flowers 

 are larger than those of G. Lindleyana, but they want the red blotches. It 

 approaches nearly to G. rosea-alba. Both these new Godetias have bloomed in 

 Short Gardens, Chiswick. 



Rigidelia immaculata. — A native of Guatemala, and is a curious bulbous 

 plant. The flowprs are yellow and red, reflexed. 



Tigridia violacea. — The flowers are of a rich purple-blue. It is a native of 

 Mexico, and requires the same treatment as Tigridia Pavonia. 



Olinia acuminata. — From the Cape of Good Hope. A shrubby plant. 

 Flowers pale green, succeeded by dull red berries. 



Olinia cymosa. — From the Cape of Good Hope. A. shrubby plant, producing 

 small axillary clusters of whitish flowers. Fruit reddish-green. 



Pjiotea longifi.ora. — A Cape greenhouse shrub. 



Higginsia Mexicana. — From Mexico. A greenhouse shrub, producing 

 cymes of axillary yellow flowers. It belongs to the natural order Cinchonaceae. 



' Scutellaria spi.endens. — A native of Mexico. It is a fine plant, with 

 cordate rugose leaves, producing numerous terminal racemes of tubular slender 

 scarlet flowers an inch long. It is a perennial plant, requiring a greenhouse 

 protection in winter. It will be a valuable acquisition. It has bloomed in the 

 Berlin Botanic Garden, growing half a yard high. 



B.eckea camphouosma. — A native of the Swan River. It is a greenhouse 

 shrub, with heath like foliage collected in clusters, and cup shaped like pink 

 flowers. 



Maxillaria barbata. — Flowers produced in a raceme, yellow, the labellum 

 having a dark purple spot. 



Maxillaria purpurascens. — Scape rises about six inches, bearing a solitary 

 flower, internally yellow, externally purple. 



Epidendkum tripunctatum. — It has long grassy foliage. The flowers are 

 produced in a scape, two in each. Sepals and petals of a dull yellow-green. 

 The column is deep purple, with three lobes, each of which is tipped with one 

 pale orange coloured spot. It is grown in the collection of R. Harrison, Esq., 

 Aighburgh, near Liverpool. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



Carnations, Pinks, and Picotees. — I should feel greatly obliged if yon, or 

 some of your correspondents, would, through the medium of your valuable period- 

 ical, instruct me on the undermentioned queries relating to the culture of these 

 beautiful flowers. 



1 . The best time, situation, and soil for sowing, slipping, or laying, cultivating, 

 anil flowering ? 



'-'. If flowered, in pots, what drainage and water are necessary, and the best 

 sized pots ? 



:i. Of twelve sorts (four of each kind), which the most preferable, with par- 

 ticulars of their colours, and where I should be likely to get healthy plants ? 



4. Having raised a good many from seed, how to ascertain whether or not 

 they are new varieties ? 



A Young Beginner, but an Old Subscriber. 



Haverfordwest, July 21. 1841. 



P.S. — I should feel further obliged, by being recommended the best work on 

 the subject. 



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