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Tealey's Queen Victoria Pink.— This new kind has been exhibited at 

 some ot the shows iu London, and is highly spoken of by Bome ot the 

 Florists. It is said to be a first rate flower, colour, light purple laced. 



On Greenhouse Azaleas. — Many of the most handsome flowering plants 

 are found to die in winter, the fibrous roots being so fine and delicate, that 

 the least excess of moisture causes them to perish ; to prevent this, a mode 

 of treatment has been found effectual, by grafting or inarching the delicate 

 kinds upon stalks of the Azalea indica phaenicea, that kind being more ro- 

 bust and of vigorous growth, it not only endures well through winter, but 

 those kinds worked upon it, grow much more vigorous and bloom far more 

 profusely. 



(Grafting or inarching is easily effected, in the same manner that is done 

 with the Camellia, the method deserves the attention of all persons who pre 

 cultivators of this charming tribe of greenhouse plants. We were astonished 

 with the vigour and beauty of many superb specimens of the delicate sorts, 

 that by this mode had been rendered very luxuriant ; which we saw in sev- 

 eral of the London nurseries this spring and summer; stocks are easily pro- 

 cured at a cheap rate, or raised by cuttings in sand.) 



Conductor. 



North Devon Horticultural Society, took place at the public rooms, 

 Barnstaple ; the show of fruit in consequence of the extreme backwardness 

 of the season, was not large, yet contained many fine specimens of various 

 sorts ; but of plants and flowers, the display excelled that of any former 

 occasion ; the vegetables also were very fine and in great abundance. 



T. Downes, Esq., Marwood, provided a very fine specimen of the Cactus 

 Speciosissimus, with a variety of Tender annuals and Ranunculuses. This 

 gentleman had also some v^ry rare plants, which we noticed on a table set 

 apart for them, and a description of which may not prove uninteresting. lo 

 the first place, our attention was taken with the Manito or Hand tree, (from 

 its resemblance in form to the human hand ;) only three specimens are said 

 to be in existence — two in the small botanical gardens of the palace of Mex- 

 ico, and one at the town of Tocula ; the tree at its full growth, is forty feet 

 high, with a smooth trunk, without branches to the top, but the boughs then 

 stretch over a considerble space, with large leaves and numerous flowers, 

 hanging downwards from amongst the foliage, it bears a stronger resemblance 

 to the plane or the tulip tree, than any other we are acquainted with in 

 Britian. The next was a Lichen from Mexico, a very curious plant, (from the 

 vicinity of Tepic,) which, when immersed in water, resumes the appearance 

 of vegetation, and recovers its green colour, retaining this quality during 

 any number of successive trials. The third is a very singular production, 

 called the Flor de Madera, or Wooden Flower, ascribed by some to the 

 effect of a parasitic creeper, but by others to the injury of a young; shoot 

 they grow in a variety of odd forms ; but the diseased excrescences of plants 

 are usually shapeless, and covered with bark. Besides these, there are 

 twenty-four varieties of the Cacti, from Real del Monto. 



REFERENCE TO PLATE. 



1. Chrysanthemum indicum, var. Minerva. — This very fine variety was 

 raised by Mr. Freestone, Watlington Hall, near Downham. Mr. Freestone lias 

 been by far the moit successful rai«er of fine liybrid Chrysanthemums it! this 

 count i y. 



2. Tills unique and pretty variety was also raised by Mr. Freestone. 



