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E. elegantissima. — The flowers are of a bright pink-crimson outside and 

 blush inside. The end of the tube is deeply notched. 



The following Came/lias were of the finest form : — 



C. Colvilli — white, rose stripes. C. eximia-coccinea — very compact and 

 double. Duchess of Orleans — white striped with bright red. Very double, 

 compact, and beautiful, one of the best grown. C. Leeana superba — fine crim- 

 son, very double. C. Brucea — large, rich red; petals of thick substance. C. 

 Chandleri-elegans — large, fine, rosy-blush. C. imbricata-alba — white with pink 

 stripes. C. corallina — rich deep red; a very late flowering variety. C. King — ■ 

 white with pink stripes, very double. 



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PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Ertthrina Laurifolia. — I have kept a plant of the above in a cool 

 greenhouse during winter, the root and crown appear sound, but it does not push 

 shoots ; how am I to proceed in order to succeed P A Subscriber. 



[Shake off a portion of the old compost, repot (keeping the crown above the 

 soil) in a soil consisting of one part a rich turfy maiden loam, one part turfy 

 sandy peat, and the other equal portion of old rotted hot-bed dung. Chopping 

 them up well together, and then sprinkle amongst it a handful of charcoal dust, 

 and another of bits of charcoal. Place the plant in a hot-house, or similar 

 situation as to heat, and unless some casualty has destroyed the eyes at the 

 crown it will soon push. Where several shoots arise, thin away in an early 

 stage the superfluous ones, so as to retain a few in order to have them vigorous. 

 When the shoots have extended a foot in height the plant should be removed 

 to a temperature of about sixty degrees. They require much light and a liberal 

 portion of air to prevent them drawing up weakly. When the pot becomes 

 filled with roots, repot, keeping the ball entire, and having a liberal drainage. In 

 its growing condition it usually requires a free supply of soft water, and frequent 

 syringing underside of the leaves, in order to preserve it from the red spider, 

 without which precaution, daily, it will be almost certain to be attacked. When 

 the plant has done blooming it should be allowed yradual/y to become dry at the 

 roots, and be preserved in a greenhouse, free from frost, till February. The 

 top should not be cut down lower than about six inches from the crown. — 

 Conductor.] 



Brvchycoma iberidifolia.— I want to have a bed in my flower-garden of 

 this neat and pretty-flowering plant. With this intention I have sown seed in 

 a pot, and am raising it in a hot-bed frame. I should be glad to know whether 

 I may retain the plants in the seed-pot till the time of planting out in the open 

 bed, with the prospect of fully succeeding, or whether the plants necessarily 

 require to be potted singly as soon as fit, and then be put out with entire balls ? 



[The latter treatment is necessary, and to forward the plants as much as pos- 

 sible by keeping them, after potting, in the frame for a week or two, and then 

 place them in a warm greenhouse or gentle hot-bed frame, where air must be 

 admitted freely, so as to have the plants robust by the middle of May, to turn 

 out of the pots. A rich loam and sandy-peat, not sifted, suits well to grow them 

 in, and in which they bloom profusely. — Conductor.] 



