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Statice (Nova Species). A new species, sent to this country by the col- 

 lector of the London Horticultural Society ; has bloomed in Mr. Glendinning's 

 nursery at Chiswick. The flowers are white and yellow. 



Salpictiroa glandui.osa. Messrs. Veitch's obtained it from Chili. It is a 

 greenhouse shrub. The flowers are bell-shaped, large, of a greenish-yellow 

 colour ; very pretty. 



Physianthus aluicomus. A hothouse, twining, shrubby plant; blooming 

 very similar to the Stephanotus floribundus, but ot a pretty cream colour. It is 

 in bloom in the nursery of Mr. Knight, King's Road, Chelsea. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Glycine Harrisonia, &c— An old Subscriber would be much obliged 

 for some information on the culture of the Glycine Harrisonii (or Harrisoniana), 

 m hic-h he has bad in a border of his greenhouse for a year, without the plant 

 making the smallest progress in growth, much less in coming to a flowering 

 state. 



Js it usual for the Erica mirabilis to push its young shoots through the faded 

 flower ? 



[If the plant has not yet pushed, it would be best to withhold water from it; 

 so that the soil is but barely kept moist. In this condition it must remain till 

 the end of February ; then take it up, plant it in a pot, aud place it ill a hot-bed 

 frame, or plant-stove, which, most likely, will induce it to push. When the 

 plant has commenced growing, then it may be planted out entire into the border. 

 It flourishes best when there is a little bottom heat ; in such a situation we have 

 seen it grow twenty feet in one year, and bloom profusely. We never saw the 

 Erica bloom in the manner described. — Conouctok.] 



On Designs for Flower Stands in Rooms. — As a reader of yourFLORicui- 

 ti hal Cabinet, I shall feel obliged by your mentioning, in your next Number, 

 where designs for flower-stands for rooms can be procured. A. B. 



Barnstaple, near Devon. 



[If informed where to send some plans, we will do so by post. — Conductor.] 



On IIoveas. — I have four kinds of greenhouse Hoveas, and I cannot grow or 

 bloom them to satisfaction. How am I to proceed to be successful ? 



|Have a liberal drainage of broken pots, upon which some rough turfy 

 peat, and plant in sandy heath mould, having some bits of pot or stone scat- 

 tered indiscriminately among it. Keep the plants in a dry airy part of the 

 greenhouse. In damp weather use but little water, but, in dry, water freely. 

 They only require to be just kept from frost. To have the plants bushy, pinch 

 off the leads to induce lateral shoots. — Conductor.] 



REMARKS. 



BnuoMANsiA i>ARviFr.0HA (or B. floribunda of some).— Dr. Hooker informs 

 tig that this plant is the J uanulloa parasitica mentioned in Ruiz and I'ovon's 

 Flora Peruviana, vol. ii. p. 47, fig. 1S5, which is a very different genus from the 

 Brugmansia. It is a parasitical plant, or, more properly, an epiphyte, and 

 grows on the branches of trees in Peru. 



On cuttino down too long oh straggling Pf.largoniums. — When these 

 a:e headed down late in the season there is much danger of the plants dying ; 

 but if cut down not later thau the second week in September, but the earlier the 



