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heat of the rose-house, or succession pine-stove, will bring them into 

 flower in three or four weeks in December, January, and February, 

 and in a much shorter period as the season advances. I always use 

 clean water of the temperature of the house ; and where there is no 

 cistern, vessels filled with water, placed in the house during the 

 night, will be fit for use next morning. When the plants are in 

 flower, they may be placed in a variety of shapes to advantage. They 

 can be placed in fancy baskets, as they are extremely light, and the 

 pots easily concealed by strewing a little fresh moss over the surface, 

 — or in the most ornamental situations, without fear of injuring the 

 furniture ; or the pots may be taken away by turning the plant down, 

 and tapping the pot all round with the hand until the moss and roots 

 slip out, when they could be placed in baskets, vases, or in other 

 ornaments, without injuring the roots or breaking the moss. Place 

 some moss round the sides to keep them steady, sprinkle the whole 

 with clean water, and remove them to their allotted places. Having 

 placed the baskets on large tea-trays, water to be given from a fine 

 rose watering-pot twice a-week over the flowers to refresh them, and 

 to renew their very sweet odour." He advised, when the plants are 

 in flower, to take them out of the pots as directed, and to pick all the 

 moss from the roots, then to pass a thread loosely round the roots, 

 and to slip them into the glasses filled with water. When the flower- 

 guards are put on, all are complete for windows, &c. &c, the glasses 

 to be filled with fresh water every third day. 



PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



1>iism.i:v disticha. — Double rowed, (Bot. Reg. 55.) Leguminosae. Didel- 

 phia Decandria. This pretty flowering greenhouse shrub has been introduced 

 into this country by Captain Mangles, R.N., from the Swan River colony. It 

 has bloomed in the garden of the London Horticultural Society. The plant 

 grows erect, branching, and flowers very freely. The blossoms are large for the 

 size of the plant, about three quarters of an inch across, yellow with a crimson- 

 red stained margin, round a small yellow eye. It is a graceful, neat, and pretty 

 flowering plant, well meriting a place in the greenhouse. 



Buulinotonia uioiija. — Rigid stemmed. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 193.) Orchidacese. 

 Gynaudria Alonandria. A beautiful flowering epiphyte. The flower-stems are 

 erect, each bearing four or five flowers nearly two inches across; white, delicately 

 tinged, and veined with pale pink. There is a fine specimen of it in Messrs. 

 Luddites' collection at Hackney Nursery. 



i.oovne cuisTATA, — Crested. (Bot. Reg. 57.) OrchidaceaB. Gynandiia 



Monandria. A very showy Indian species, which has recently bloomed in the 



collection of George Barker, Esq., Springfield, Birmingham; and a medal was 



awarded by the London Horticultural Society fur a specimen exhibited at the 



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