THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



OCTOBER 1st, 1841. 



PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



STACHYS DOWNESII. 



LABIATE. DIDYNAMIA ANCilOSPERMIA. 



This very handsome species was raised in the garden of Thomas 

 Downes, Esq., Marwood Hill, near Barnstable, in Devonshire. By 

 the kindness and liberality of that gentleman we were favoured a year 

 back with a plant of it. At that time it had been stated that a new 

 species then coming out, viz. S. speciosa, was the same as S. Downesii, 

 we therefore procured a plant of the former, and this season have 

 bloomed both kinds, and find them very distinct, S. Downesii being 

 so very superior to the other ; the habit of the plant being much 

 neater, and vastly superior in profusion of its charming spikes of 

 flowers. The colour, too, is very striking when in contrast, S. 

 Downesii being a beautiful carmine. Whether the plant be grown 

 in the conservatory, greenhouse, or open border, during summer, it is 

 alike an object of attraction. It is a very desirable plant to grow in 

 masses in unison with Salvias, Lobelias, &c. It is of easy culture, 

 and propagates very freely by cuttings. It grows from two to eight 

 feet high, branching numerously, and each terminating with a long 

 spike of flowers. 



Leciienaui.tia biloba. — Goodeniaceoc. Pentandria Monogynia. 

 During the past summer disputation as to the existence of a blue 

 (lowered Lcchenaultia has been ended, several specimens having been 

 exhibited at the Chiswick and other exhibitions, and plants of it being 

 now in most of the principal nursery establishments. It flowered. 

 first in this country in the nursery of Messrs. Veitch and Son of 

 Exeter. Tlie plants we saw bloomed freely, and appeared to be of a 



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