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flowering plant, well merits any attention given to it, and in the early part 

 of the season is very ornamental for a greenhouse or room. Plants either in 

 the open ground or pots, when the blooming is over, if not allowed to pro- 

 duce seeds, the withering flowers be cut off, and the plants be repotted into 

 larger pots, will induce a fresh growth, and they will bloom abundantly. 



The same attention to many of the new and showy annuals would be at- 

 tended with equal success, and thus a Greenhouse, Conservatory, or Koom 

 might be highly ornamented in spring and early summer. Such kinds as 

 Noemophilas, Eutocas, Gilia tricolor, Hibisens Africanus, Calundrinia dis- 

 color, Browallea grandiflora, Bartonia aurea, Nolana atriplicifolia, Campa- 

 nula Loreii, Clintonia pulchella. Lapinus nanus, Lupinus elegans, Malope 

 granditlora, Shaenogyne speciosa, Salpiglossis pulchella, &c. _ These require 

 no forcing, and when in bloom mixing with bulbous flowering plants, &c, 

 produce a lively effect. We have seen an instance where this attention to 

 their culture has been attended to for the last three seasons, with delight- 

 ful success. (Conductor) 



Dahlias have this season been trained against a wall, and blooming pro- 

 fusely, had a beautiful appearance. In both sun and shade they succeeded 

 •well. Chrysanthemums, in either situation, did alike well. heartsease 

 trained against a shady wall, to fill up the vacancies between Dahlias or 

 Chrysanthemums, have succeeded admirably. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Urceolina pendula — An Ainaryllidese plant, a native of the shady 

 woods of the Peruvian Andes. The flowers are yellow with a green and 

 white margin. It has bloomed in the greenhouse of the Honourable and 

 Reverend VV. Herbert, Spoffirth. 



Mimosa marginata. — This pretty plant has been grown in some colections 

 of this country for about four years, and gone by the name Mimosa pros- 

 tata, M. Mexicana, and M. scandens. It has stood during the winters ot 

 1837 and 1838 in the open border. It is a very neat plant for training 

 against a wall, verandah, &c. Us pretty purple heads of flowers and neat 

 foliage strongly recommend it. 



Dendrobium denudans, — brought into this country by His Grace the 

 Duke of Devonshire's collector in India. The flowers are produced on 

 nodding racemes, and are green and white. 



Ccclocynb Wallichiana. — Another Orchideee brought by the before 

 mentioned collector. In its native country it grows and covers the ground 

 with a pavement of its curious stems, which wither up in the dry season, 

 but change into a brilliant carpet of rosy flowers when rain has descended. 



Mendinilla crythbophyi.la. — A plant belonging to the Melastomaceas 

 tribe, brought from India by the above named collector. The flowers are of 

 a bright rose colour, near an inch long, produced on axillary cymes. 



Gardoquia BETONicotDES. — Mr. Lowe of the Clapton Nursery received 

 seeds of this plant from Mexico, and succeeded in raising it, with whom it 

 hag bloomed. It is an erect, sweet scented herbaceous plant. The flowers 

 are of a bright purple. It resembles G. MulliHnra, but the (lowers are 

 rather smaller. 



Tradf.scantia irioescens. — A native of Mexico, from whence it has 

 been sent to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. M. P., in whose collection it has re- 

 cently bloomed. The (lowers are produced numerously, and are of a bright 

 reddish-purple colour. It is probable it will prove a half-hardy herba- 

 ceous plant. 



1pomu:a tyrcantiiina. — G. F. Dickson, Esq. received seeds of this plant 

 from Mcjico, a plant of which has bloomed in the garden of the London 



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