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using the same mould, and replacing them in the same heat, as before, 

 until they show flowers ; I then select the plants I think likely to have 

 the finest combs, and repot them into 12-sized pots, using a compost 

 of one-fourth pigeon dung, to three-fourths leaf mould and decom- 

 posed frame dung, well incorporated together; I then give them a 

 good watering with liquid manure regularly twice a-week. When 

 full grown, I allow the heat in the bed to die away, covering the 

 plants from the mid-day sun with mats, after which they remain in 

 vigorous bloom for many weeks. By the above treatment my combs 

 vary from 16 to 18 inches, by *7 inches. The sorts I grow is 

 Brighton Prize and mixed German. 



If this should be of any use to your numerous readers, I shall 

 trouble you with some remarks on the Tulip, as I am trying some 

 experiments on its culture. 



[We shall be obliged by the promised favour. — Conductor.] 



PART II. 

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NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



New or Rare Plants. 



/Egiphila grandiflora. Large yellow-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 4230.) 

 Verbenaeea. Didynamia Angiospermia. In a former Number we recently 

 noticed that Messrs. Hendersons', of Pine Apple Nursery, London, had a new 

 and beautiful yellow-flowered Rondeletia in bloom. The plant had been sent 

 to them, under that name, from Liege ; it is, however, found to be a true Mg\- 

 phila. The plant is shrubby, growing about two feet high. It blooms very 

 freelv in the stove through the winter season, and the fine yellow many-flowered 

 corymbous heads of tubular flo«er3 produce a very pretty effect. The heads of 

 flowers very much resemble those of the yellow-flowered Bouvardia. 



Barnadesia rosea. Rose-coioured. (Bot. Mag. 4232.) Mutisianae. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia. From Peru and Brazil, and is in the Syon House col- 

 lection. It bloums freely in winter on the plant-stove. It is a shrub, slender, 

 and in its wild state trailing. The flowers are produced in a sealed head, simi- 

 lar to some of the Elichrysums ; they are of a beautiful rose colour ; it is a very 

 pretty plant. 



Cedkonei.la pallida. The pale-flowered. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Lamiaceae. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. From the north of Mexico. It is much like a 

 staciiys. Flowers tubular, in whorls ; a pale rose colour. It is a greenhouse 

 plant, and does well for beds or borders during summer. It is in the garden of 

 the Horticultural Society. 



Chorozema triangulare. Triangular-leaved. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Legu- 



