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done flowering. The worst of permitting plants to sow themselves 

 is, that early in autumn the flower-beds will have a very untidy ap- 

 pearance, as the ground not only becomes rough, but it is covered 

 with dead stalks and leaves, which have always a most miserable and 

 desolate appearance ; and these cannot be removed till the seed has 

 fallen, while the beds must not be forked over and raked for fear of 

 destroying the seedlings. It is therefore much better, as soon as the 

 annuals have done flowering, to take them up, and throw them away ; 

 a supply of seed being preserved by having left some plants in the 

 reserve-ground for that purpose. A second or spring sowing of the 

 Californian annuals may be made in the reserve-ground, to be ready 

 for use in case any should be wanted in the autumn." 



PART II. 



MISCELLANY 



OF 



NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



New and Rare Plants. 



Acacia i.ongikolia. Long leaved. Leguminossea. Polygaroia Monreeia. 

 A very handsome greenhouse shrub, of graceful form. The flowers are pro- 

 duced on the terminal and lateral shoots, each laden with numerous large 

 globular blossoms, of a rich orange-yellow colour. It has been introduced into 

 this country many years, but is not grown as it merits. Its natural habit is to 

 form a lofty plant, but by stopping the leading shoots, lateral ones are freely 

 produced, and the plant may easily be kept a handsome blooming bush, at any 

 desired height. It succeeds best when grown in equal portions of sandy loam, 

 peat, and leaf mould. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) 



Buddi.ea Linui.eyana. The Purplr Chinese Buddlea. Scrophularine. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. The Horticultural Society's collector in China, Mr! 

 Fortune, discovered the present plant almost immediately on his arrival at 

 Chusan. He sent a Chinese drawing of it in bloom, and a packet of seeds. A 

 dried specimen branch has since then been received ; it was about half a yard 

 long, having seven spikes of flowers. Each spike is from three to five inches 

 long. The blossoms are tube formed, each about an inch long; the limb spread- 

 ing, four parted ; the outside of the blossom is a pretty violet purple • the 

 upper surface of the limb is a rich crimson red, showing a white inside of the 

 tube; the spike, which is figured here, is four inches and a-half long, and repre- 

 sents about sixty (lowers. The plant is shrubby, very branching, and about as 

 hardy as the Fuchsia in general. It is easy of cultivation, and deserves a place 

 in every greenhouse and conservatory. It appears to be likely to grow against 

 an open wall during summer, and not to have a very rich soil to grow in. Now 

 the plant can be procured at about a shilling each. (Bot. Reg., 1846, No. 4 ) 



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