296 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Polygonum Amplexicaulo. — "This charming herbaceous plant, inhabi- 

 ting the mountains in the north of India, with long graceful racemes of the 

 most brilliant ruby-coloured Howers," has, lately made its appearance among 

 some plants raised from seeds; we are not informed where, but a figure i.-; 

 promised. Its flowering season is July and August. 



Psoralen Cinerea. — An annual plant, of little beauty, with small purple 

 flowers. A native of New Holland. 



RoePCRA Aiip.antiaca, — Is a native of th« interior of New Holland; the 

 flowers are of an orange-yellow. It has been raised in the garden of the 

 Horticultural Society, where it (lowers in the open border during July. 



Sedum MlSERUM. — A succulent plant of no beauty ; a native of Mexico. 



Spirantiies Diuretica. — A native of Chili, with white and green flowers, 

 studded in a beautiful manner with cristalline points. It is an orchidaceous 

 plant, succeeding very well in the greenhouse. 



Thys.mvotus IntRicatus. — A figure of this pretty plant is promised to be 

 given in the Bot. Keg. 



Vanaa Lamellata, — The flowers of .this plant are as large as those of V. 

 Roxburghi. The flowers are pale yellow, and stained with red. It is nearly 

 allied ]to V. spalhutata, a species common in the East Indies, but which no 

 one seems yet to have imported. 



EDITOR OF MONTHLY NOTES. 



When plants are of half hardy perennials, they are taken up at the end 

 of the season, preserved in pits ,or frames through winter, and turned out 

 early in spring. In some of the beds a training plant is planted at the 

 centre, such as Maurandia Barclayana, &c, and trained to rods or wires 

 from the centre, in lines to the outside of the bed. As great a contrast in 

 colour as possible is attended to, such as a bed of yellow Calceolarias, 

 having the Maurandia Barclayana. 



Oenothera Speciosa, with its showy white flowers and the Lysimachia per- 

 ticillata, yellow, are found to bloom freely where the shade of trees was 

 very dense. The (Euothera taraxifolia will also flourish well in such a situ- 

 ation. When grown in the pleasure ground, near to the walk, tbey have a 

 very fine effect towards evening. 



Campanula garganica with its pretty blue flowers, is one of the mo^t orna- 

 mental of dwarf plants to be grown in a mass. Against a wall of some 

 extent, Summer and Autumn flowering Roses are trained; some of. the 

 Autumn flowering kinds require to be protected, but an interesting dis- 

 covery has been made relative to these kinds, viz. by having hardy kinds 

 budded on the extreme shoots of the tender ones, and whilst all the shoots 

 upon such plants not budded were destroyed by the severity of the last 

 winter, not any of those parts which had been budded upon were in the 

 least injured. Thus it appears that the vigorous and late growth of the 

 scions, kept the stock in a condition of vigorous growth at the season when 

 otherwise it wot.ld have been dormant. 



It is stated in Paxton's Magazine of Botany that seed, of the Rhodanthe 

 Manglesii, being sown in August in pots, having each pot filled about one 

 half with broken potsherds, and then nearly filled up with a compost of 

 (equal parts) decayed leaf mould and light maiden earth, on which the seed 

 is sown and just covered from the light, kept moist, and placed in gentle 

 warmth. The plants, as soon as can be done, are potted singly into small 

 sixty sized pots, well drained. They are removed into larger pots as the 

 roots issuing through the holes at the bottom indicates, and are kept in the 

 greenhouse through winter, when they will bloom from the end of March. 

 Sowings made iu September or October, bloom proportionably later, and 

 somewhat finer 'than the August sowing. Such a very neat and beautiful 



