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half of fresh loam, digging it fine, and beating it as fiim as possible, 

 after which I watered it, and inserted with my finger the slips, taking 

 care that the lower end of the slip is bent flat upon the surface of the 

 soil, and being pressed in that position into it, it turns round the 

 point of the finger; in that form the soil is firmly closed round it, 

 after which a good watering closes the process. I had a wire screen, 

 (wooden laths, &c, would equally serve,) supported by a brick laid 

 flat at each corner, laid over the plantation, and upon it put as many 

 rhubarb leaves as covered it entire, for the purpose of shade. These 

 not only protected from the hot rays of the sun, but at the same 

 time kept a moist atmosphere underneath. When the leaves had 

 become very shrivelled, I replaced with others. Occasionally a 

 sprinkling of water was given when changing the leaves. The cover- 

 ing was given up as soon as I discovered they would sustain the sun 

 without flagging. By this mode of treatment I find it not only to do 

 without the expense of glass cover, but my plants are much more 

 vigorous, being robust, and this summer have bloomed much finer 

 than my other plants. The success, too, in the process, more than 

 exceeded my expectations. Out of 600 slips inserted, only four failed. 

 I have just put off a similar quantity this year, doing it rather 

 earlier, (June 18,) and now they appear admirably well, (July 13.) 

 I think it is better to be thus early, as the plants get stronger by the 

 early part of September, the time of planting for a fine bloom the 

 following season. 



PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Auunuina densa. — Close flowered. Reed Orchis. (Bot. Rep. 38.) Orchi- 

 dacese. Gynandria Monandria. A native of Sincapore, sent by Mr. Cuming 

 to Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it has bloomed. There is only this and a 

 Bambusifolia yet introduced into this country. In tlie structure of the plant it 

 is near to Phaius. It grows erect, and the stems terminate in a dense spike of 

 flowers. Each blossom is about three inches across. The sepals are of a very 

 pale purple, the lip being yellow and red. Petals of a lilac-purple. Labellum 

 reddish-purple with yellow streaks upon a white ground inside. The. flowers 

 are handsome and delightfully fragrant. The plant merits a place in every 

 collection. 



Boronia anf.monsfoi.ia, — Anemone-leaved. (Pax. Ma;'. Bot. July.) Ru- 

 taceae. Oclandria Mono^ynia. A native of New Holland, imported by Messrs. 

 Loddiges, with whom we have seen it bloom for two seasons. It is an ever- 

 green shrub, growing two or three feet high, bushy. The leaves more resemble 

 those of the Jasmiuium than an Anemone — they aie pretty. The flowers are 



