iQ MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Sir C. Cockerell, the architect of the bank, says— " As regards porcelain, 

 foreigners are superior to the English in flower painting and ornamental 

 scroll work." 



Mr. George llennie, the sculptor, attributes the excellence of the French 

 artists to their superior facilities for studying design, and particularly re- 

 conivnands instruction in botanical drawing. 



Mr. Crabb, an eminent designer says — " The French papers are superior 

 in design, both in the original idea and the detail of the drawing ; tor in 

 England we have no school to obtain such instruction. The foliage is beau- 

 tiful and the flower borders are exceedingly well executed, while in the 

 English patterns the leaves are not those of the flower, an inaccuracy which 

 we never find in the French. This facility of adapting the forms and colours 

 most gratifying to the, eye, must be the result of early and continued ac- 

 quaintance with flowers and plants. A botanical garden would be of the 

 highest value, for there is scarcely anything where, in some form, botany is 

 not introduced, and more extensively we are acquainted with it the better ; 

 we get more beautiful lines, more original effects, and finer forms than we 

 do by any other means ; we find no coloring equal to that of nature." 



Mr. Donoldson, the architect, says— "that the manufacturing artists re- 

 quire instruction, in botany, as connected with construction, in order to give 

 a workman an insight into the nature and properties ofivegetable substances, 

 and a more accurate knowledge of their forms when he wishes to delineate 

 or model them ; all of which may be very much derived from the study ot 

 their growth and formation. I should also recommend, that such a general 

 idea of chemistry, as connected with construction, should be given, as would 

 enable a workman very usefully to apply that knowledge in respect to dry 

 rot, and other similar circumstances, snch as the various properties of colors, 

 both mineral and vegetable, and their greater or less durability." 



(to be continued.) 



NEW OR RAKE PLANTS. 



Notylia punctata. Orchidea?. Theflowers of this species are whiter 

 thau those of any other, and are produced on a short fluxuose rar 



(Bot. Reg. 



Notylia Barkeri. Orchideae. Received by G. Barker, Esq., from 

 Mexico. The flowers are very like N. incurv.i, but are of a darker yellow, 

 and rather smaller. (Bot. Reg. 



Notvlia MICBantHa. Orchideaj. Messrs. Loddiges' received it from 

 Demarara. The flowers are very small, of a pale green, with a yellowish 

 lip. 



Notylia tenuis. Orchidere. Received from Demerara by Messrs. Lod- 

 diges'. The flowers are of a pale straw color. (Bot. Reg. 



Pi.eurothalis muscoioea Orchideae. This is in the collection of Messrs. 

 Loddiges', and is the smallest plant of any of the Orchideae sent to this 

 country. The flower is of a dull purple, having an orange margin to the 

 petals and sepals, the lip is stained with purple and orange. 



TnuNBEUGiA IJawtownian*. — This new and pretty flowering species 

 produces a profusion of its pnrple blossoms which have a pretty appear- 

 ance, move particularly when grown in contrast with the T. alata, and T. 

 leucantha. 



