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masses, each bed containing flowers of one kind, so as to produce 

 something of the effect of a Turkey carpet when looked down upon 

 from the windows of the house. I enclose you a design which I 

 think will suit the situation, and I will adapt what I have to say to it, 

 as my observations might easily be made suitable to another plan, if 

 another should be found more desirable. 



"We will suppose the plan to consist of twelve flower-beds on grass, 

 with a gravel walk round, which may be bordered on the side next 

 your room by beds for flowers, with little gravel openings opposite 

 each of your windows, or be plain gravel, as you like. There may 

 be a conservatory into which the drawing-room windows facing the 

 south may open, and on the other side there should be a shrubbery 

 to unite it with the lawn. In the centre of the flower-garden there 

 may be a fountain. As the dower-garden is to be seen principally 

 from your windows, the beds nearest you should be planted with 

 dwarf flowers, so that those in the back beds may be seen ; aud I 

 should advise the shrubbery behind to consist of laurustinus and 

 arbutus, so as to afford a handsome green background to the flowers 

 in summer, and yet to afford a few flowers themselves in winter and 

 spring, when flowers are scarce in the beds. 



( To be continued.) 



PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Ai.iamanda granuivlora. Large-flowered. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) We re- 

 cently figuied the handsome Allamanda cathartica, but the present species is 

 even superior to that, although the flowers are similar in colour, those of A. 

 grandiflora are much larger. It is a native of Brazil, and was discovered by 

 Mr. Gardner, who sent it to the nursery of Mr. Cunningham, Comely-bank, 

 Edinburgh. It is an evergreen climbing plant, well deserving a place in every 

 warm greenhouse conservatory, or plant stove. It has bloomed finely in the 

 gardens of Colonel Baker, of Sali-burv, under the skilful management of Mr. 

 Dodd. 



Angr.t.cum apiclm ATH5I. (Bot. Mag. 4159.) Orchidaceae. Gynandria 

 Monandria, a native of Sierra Leone, introduced by Mr. Whitfield into this 

 country in 1844. The flowers are produced on a drooping raceme of near a foot 

 long. The flowers are white, with a tinge of pink at the ends of the petals. 

 Each blossom is about two inches across. 



Begonia ramentacea. The Scaly. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) A native of Brazil, 

 introduced into this country in 1840, and is now to be had in several of the 

 London nurseries. It is an evergreen perennial. The leaves are a bright gieen 

 above, and pink-red beneath. The flowers are of a pale blush, and white inter- 

 mixed. It is one of the prettiest species, well deseiving a place in every 

 stove. 



