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regular and fine reduced powder, so as it may retain an equilibrium 

 of temperature, by being regularly distributed. As the lime and soot 

 do not appear favourites of the wireworm, I think it will need no 

 further prevention. This being done, let him put out his plant?, 

 taking care to fix them well in the ground, and attend to watering in 

 dry weather. As to propagation, I think he may safely rely on Mr. 

 Harrison's directions, only I would recommend all the leaves to be 

 removed betwixt the parent and the heel of the layer, as they often 

 harbour an insect which finds its way through the pith, and destroys 

 the infant plant. It may be of importance to remark that Justice, a 

 Scotch horticulturist, states, " that Hyacinths leave something dele- 

 terious in the soil, that not only deteriorates but proves fatal to Carna- 

 tions when placed in the same soil, and vice versa. 1 " To counter- 

 balance the personalities I have used in this paper, I felt much 

 delighted, and of course am under obligations to Mr. Harrison, in 

 perusing his communication on " Contemplative Gardening," and 

 regret I did not see the first part of it. The poetry is most appropriate 

 and well chosen. 



PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Ci.erodendron splkndens. — Scarlet Glory Tie?. (But. Reg. 7.) Verbe- 

 naceae. Didynamia Angiospermia. In a recent number we noticed this hand- 

 siimc flowering plant blooming in the stove collection of plants at Mr. Knight's, 

 Kin^'s-road, Chelsea. The following additional remarks upon it are from the 

 desciiptions given by Mr. Whitfield, whose servant discovered it in the woods 

 of Sierra Leone, growing in a stiff gravelly soil. Mr. Whitfield went and took 

 up the root. Upon a more extended research, several others were found ^rowim* 

 in a stiff' loam, which he supposed to be in their virgin state. This took place 

 in December, 1838. In February, 1839, Mr. Whitfield repaired along the 

 south-west district of Sierra Leone, where he found it growing in greater plenty, 

 in a strong loam, and of various colours, there being crimson, orange, brick-dust 

 ltd. and crimson and white, the latter being the most luxuriant. The plant 

 which has bloomed with Mr. Knight, being scarlet, makes, with the above, five 

 distinct colours. The entire varieties have been added to t he collection of the 

 Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. It is stated that when the plant is grown 

 where the root is shaded from hot sun by underwood, that it attains the height 

 often or twelve feet ; but, if exposed, it seldom grows higher than about three 

 feet. It is supposed to require a moist stove atmosphere, with considerable 

 bottom heat, during its growing season ; and when at rest, after its growth is 

 Completed, for four mouths in a drier atmosphere. The flowers are produced 

 numerously, in corymbous heads, each blossom being a little more than an inch 

 across. The whole of the varieties deserve a place in every suitable hot-house. 



Amauyi.i.is Banksiana. — The Banksian Amaryllis. ( Bot. Reg. 11.) Ama- 



ryllidaceie. Hexandria Monogynia. A greenhouse bulbous plant from the 



Cape, and has bloomed in the collection of J. H. Slater, Esq., Newick Park, 



near Uckfield, in Sussex. It grows freely in the greenhouse, in sandy loam, 



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