THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



FEBRUARY 1st, 1846. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. EMBELLISHMENTS. 



1. HINDSIA VIOLACEA ALBA. 

 In our Number for September, 1844, we figured tbe handsome 

 species H. violacea, violet coloured flowers, and since that time 

 many of our readers have seen that lovely species in bloom exhibited 

 at the metropolitan and other first rate shows. Recently we saw the 

 plant we now figure in fine] bloom at Messrs. Hendersons, Pine 

 Apple Nursery. The plant was cultivated in the stove, but we think 

 it will also flourish in a warm greenhouse. It appears to be more 

 vigorous than the H. violacea. The flowers are produced in fine 

 corymbous heads, a most lovely white, longer in the tube than the 

 other kind named, and very highly fragrant. It deserves to be in 

 every collection. 



2. EVOLVULUS PURPUREO— CCEIiULEUS. Purple-blue Flowered. 



Amongst the many novelties we found in the fine collection of 

 plants in the Royal Gardens at Kew during the past summer, is the 

 pretty lovely flowering plant now figured. It is a native of Jamaica, 

 and requires to be grown in a plant stove or warm greenhouse. 

 It is what is usually termed half shrubby, the shoots grow about 

 half a yard high, and it blooms very freely during the summer. It 

 deserves to be grown wherever it is practicable, being easy of culture, 

 and remarkably showy and ornamental. 



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