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Justicia. (New species.) The heads of flowers are something in the way of 

 J. speciosa, but larger and broader, and of a rich purple. It blooms very freely. 



Trachelium linearis. The heads of flowers are in fine corymbs, pure white. 

 It is a shrubby greenhouse plant, very pretty. 



Combretum spi.endens alba. Like the original splendens this is a fine 

 climbing plant, and its beautiful white flowers produce a very pretty effect. It 

 deserves a place in every stove. The blossoms are very fragrant. 



Ruellia maculata. The leaves are a dark green, with beautiful silver 

 patches. If it had not a flower, it is well worth having in every collection for its 

 beautiful foliage. 



The Neapolitan Tree Violet. The plant grows to about a foot high, form- 

 ing a pretty head, and blojming profusely. The blossoms are quite double, blue, 

 and highly fragrant. 



Stephanotus floribundus. This fine climber, with its beauteous waxy white 

 flowers, can be made to have a second crop of bloom, by pruning in the shoots 

 when the spring and early summer flowers fade. Thus treated, a fine autumn 

 bloom succeeds. The same kind of attention with Clerodendron splendens is 

 equally successful. 



Stachytarfheta. New species. This very pretty flowering species we saw 

 iu the stove at the Royal Gardens at Kew. The flowers are produced in fine 

 pyramidal heads, of a rich velvet-blue. Its fine tubular blossoms in such heads 

 are very beautiful. 



Leianthus longifolius. The foliage is very like a common jasmine, but a 

 rich shining green. The flowers are tubulous, about two inches long, of a pretty 

 yellow colour, and produced freely. It is a pretty plant for the greenhouse at 

 this season of the year. We saw it at Kew. 



Ruei.lia maorophylla. The foliage is large and handsome ; the flowers are 

 of a bright scarlet, each near three inches long, and produced freely, renders it 

 a fine plant, well deserving to be in every stove or warm greenhouse. We saw it 

 at Kew. 



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QUERY. 



On Chrysanthemums decaying before expanding. I procured some 

 healthy plants of Chrysanthemums when the flower buds were nearly bursting. 

 I placed them in a put-frame I have, not heated. I supplied them with a due 

 quantity of water, but now when opening the petals rot before expanding. I 

 have no house to put them in, where heat can be applied. What course should 

 I adopt ? A. B. 



[If the pit is krpt much closed, the air will be too damp for the flowers ; they 

 being of so fleshy a substance, soon become mouldy and die away. Give all 

 possible air when not frosty; that is essential iu order to succeed. If the lights 

 can be raised back and front, so as to have a current through, during the warmer 

 part of the day, it will tend to dry the place. Light and air must be afforded.] 



REMARKS. 



Balsam Seeds It is no* generally known that the case in which the seed of 



the balsam is enclosed, yields an orange dye of a beautiful colour. As the bal- 

 sam seeds freely, this could be produced extensively at a cheap rate, so as to 

 become an object of commerce. 



