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Euphorbia sanguinea. — The leaf is cordate, of a deep purple colour; it has 

 not yet bloomed, but it is a handsome-looking plant, well deserving a place in 

 every collection of stove or greenhouse plants. 



Brugmansia parviflora. — The plant is quite of a dwarf habit, the flowers 

 of a pretty orange colour, each being about an inch and a half long. Green- 

 house. 



Gesneria Zebrina. — The leaf is kidney-shaped, with reddish veins. The 

 flowers are produced in large panicles, forty or more in each. The outside of 

 the flower is scarlet at the upper side and yellow underneath ; the inside is most 

 numerously and beautifully spotted with crimson. It is a very handsome flower- 

 ing species. Each flower is about an inch and a half across. Stove. 



Begonia Punctata. — A new species, not bloomed; the leaf is large, prettily 

 spotted with dark. 



Boronia visiinea. — A very pretty plant, blooming profusely. Each flower is 

 about a quarter of an inch across, of a pink colour. The plant had then been 

 (September 27th) six months in bloom in the greenhouse. 



Pimei.ea spectabile. — The flower is the colour of Hispida , but twice the 



size. Greenhouse. 



Pjmelea Hendersonia. — The flowers are of a pretty pink colour, about a 

 quarter of an inch across. Both kinds are pretty, and well deserve a place in 

 the greenhouse. 



Gompholobium Knightianum. — A new species. Flowers about the size of 

 G. polymorphum, of a pretty rosy-lilac colour. 



London Horticultural Society's Garden. 



Salvia dulcis. — Like S. Grahami in growth, the flowers of a beautiful rose 

 colour. Like the Salvias in general, it will do well in the open air in summer, 

 or iu the greenhouse. 



Salvia regla. — We noticed this in a recent number. We observed that the 

 plants bloomed more freely in the open ground than in the conservatory. Its 

 pretty red flowers making it very showy. It was in fine bloom in October, and no 

 doubt would continue till frost destroyed the spikes. 



B^eckia camphouata. — The plant is slender, blooming most profusely; the 

 blossoms„principally at the upper side of its spikes, which are near two feet long. 

 Each flower is about a quarter of an inch across, white, with a slight blush tinge. 

 A very handsome greenhouse plant. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Planting Ranunculus and Anemonies to bloom in June. — A constant 

 subscriber to the Floricultural Cabinet would feel obliged if the Conductor 

 would favour him with an answer to the following queries: — 



At what time should Anemonies and Ranunculuses be planted to be in full 

 bloom about the middle of June P 



[About the middle of March. We have done it for years. — Conductor.] 

 The usual treatment of Amaryllis formosissima and Alstromerias ? 

 Sept. 23d, 1841. R. W. C 



[We will give an article on each in our next. — Conductor.] 



On increasing the double-flowered Lychnis. — Having purchased, some 

 time since, a plant of double-flowered Lychnis, having a single stem, I should 



