40 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



to the temperature of the house, occasionally adding a small quantity 

 of pulverized lime and a little powdered sulphur, which will keep it 

 free from red spider, &c. The plant should be repotted as soon as 

 ever the pot is full of roots, and be watered frequently with liquid 

 manure from cow dung, the plant to be stopped according to the form 

 of the trellis that it is to be trained to ; it may be done in a very neat 

 and simple manner, as follows, by six wire rods round the inside of 

 the pot four feet long, and one in the centre five feet and a half long, 

 with wire hoops around the uprights to keep them in the desired 

 hexagon position, the hoops to be fastened to the uprights with fine 

 wire, one hoop just above the pot, another half up, and the third at 

 the top of the uprights; when fastening the top hoop, carry the fine 

 wire from the top of each of the uprights to the top of the centre wire, 

 by that means forming a dome, and a circle of fine wire run around 

 the outside of the uprights, about six or eight inches apart, to form 

 the trellis. If the plant is to be trained on such a trellis it will be 

 necessary to stop it frequently while young, to have a shoot for each 

 upright, and to be stopped when they are half way up the trellis, to 

 make the eyes throw out laterals to train round the trellis, when it 

 ought to take its final shift into a No. 6 pot, giving it sufficient drain- 

 ing ; using the same compost as formerly mentioned, always syringing 

 it freely, taking care to pinch off all blossoms as they appear ; to keep 

 the plant in a vigorous growing state until the plant covers the trellis, 

 stopping as often as there is want of laterals. If the simple rules 

 here laid down be followed, the reward will be a profusion of blos- 

 soms and a fine deep foliage. 



PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Aquii.egha Skinneri. — Mr. Skinner's Columbine. (Bot. Mag. 3919.) Ra- 

 nunculaceae. Polyandria Pentagynia. Sent from Guatemala, having been 

 collected there by Mr. Skinner much further in the south than it had been sup- 

 posed a Columbine could be produced. It was sent to the collection at Woburn 

 Abbeyj where it has bloomed, and proves perfectly hardy, having survived the 

 severe winter of 1840-41 in the open ground. It is a perennial plant, the flower 

 stems rising from two to three feet high, producing the blossoms in panicles, and 

 flowering most heautitully in 1841 for many months. Petals, the limb yellow 

 gieen, prolonged at the base into a long lively red spur. Sepals, green. 



Beaukortia decussata. — Decussated-leaved. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 269.) Myr- 

 tuceae. Polyadelphia Polyandria. A very interesting greenhouse shrub from 

 New Holland. It was introduced some years ago, but is not cultivated as 



