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with a little vegetable mould and sand ; all these to be well incor- 

 porated together, and a pit made for the reception of the plants, three 

 feet square by two and a half deep, filling it up with the above com- 

 posts ; then insert the plant, putting it about an inch deeper than it 

 was in the pot ; then there should be a stake of durable wood pro- 

 cured to fasten it to. When planted out, it grows more luxuriant 

 than in pots, and has always a more healthy appearance. When 

 in flower, what can surpass it ? The bunches of pale red flowers 

 hanging the one upon the other, out of a dense thicket, as it may be 

 termed. 



PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Calliandra Twebdiei. Mr. Tweedie's. (Bot. Mag. 4188.) Leguminosae. 

 Monadelphia Poly andria. This is a very beautiful flowering Mimosae-like plant ; 

 it is a native of South Brazil, where it was found by Mr. Sellow. Mr. Jennings, 

 gardener to the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley Park, raised plants of it from seeds, 

 where it has also bloomed, as well as at the Royal Gardens at Kew. It requires 

 to be grown in a moist stove temperature. In its native country it grows to a 

 small tree in good soil ; but in the mountainous places a low shrub. The foliage 

 is of the beautiful Mimosa? form. The flowers are produced in heads of about 

 twenty in each. The fine crimson-red filaments give a very pretty appearance, 

 much like those of the Inga pulcherrima. 



Tacsonia moli.issima. Downy-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 4187.) Passifloreae. 

 Monadelphia Pentandria. A native of New Grenada, yet growing at a height 

 of 10,000 feet above the level of the sea. Mr. Lobb sent seeds of it to Messrs. 

 Veitch, of Exeter Nursery, where it has been raised. It blooms freely in a cool 

 greenhouse, and it is very likely to bloom well in the open air in Devonshire, 

 trained against a good aspected wall. As a conservatory climber it is very beau- 

 tiful. The flower has a tube five inches long, green. The petals are of a 

 beautiful rose colour. Each flower about four inches across. 



Franciscea acuminata. Acuminated-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 4189.) Scro- 

 phularinae. Didynamia Angiospermia. A shrubby plant, a native of Brazil, 

 received into this country by the name of F. Pohliana. It is a very handsome 

 stove plant. The flowers are about the size of F. Hopeana, produced in terminal 

 clusters on short branches. The corolla is of a rich deep purple, having a white 

 ring around the eye of the tube ; as the flowers become older, they become of a 

 pale purple. It is a very pretty species. 



Schomburqkia undulata. Wavy-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 53.) Orchidaceac. 

 Gynandria Monandria. Discovered by Mr. Linden in New Granada. The 

 flowers are produced in a head of about twenty in each. The sepals and petals 

 are a chocolate-brown colour. The labellum is a bright rosy crimson. Each 

 flower is two inches and a-half across. 



Habranthus concolor. Whole-coloured. (Bot. Reg. 54.) Amarylli- 

 daceae. Hexandria Monogynia. Mr. Hartweg found it in pastures near the 

 city of Leon in Mexico. The flowers are a pale green, each being about three 

 inches long and nearly as much across. It flourishes either in the greenhouse or 

 cold frame. 



Gongora truncata. Bean-budded. (Bot. Reg. 56.) From Mexico, and 

 is in the collection of S. Rucker, Esq., of Wandsworth. Sepals and petals 



