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Bossijea eiuocahpa. A plant from the Swan River colony, which has 

 recently bloomed with Mr. Groom. The flowers are not of much interest, of a 

 dingy nankeen colour. 



Gonqora truncata. From Mexico. The flowers are of a pale straw colour, 

 with purplish speckles and yellowish lip. 



Acacia spectabilis. Introduced from the Swan River colony by Messrs. 

 Lucombe and Co., of Exeter. It is a beautiful pinnated leaved plant, with 

 erect racemes of deep yellow balls of flowers. It is one of the finest of this lovely 

 tribe of flowers, and highly ornamental for the greenhouse. 



Epidendrum arbuscula. From Mexico. The flowers are of a dull chocolate 

 colour, having a small patch of yellow in the middle ol the labellum. 



Ceanothus divaricatus. A beautiful hardy spiny shrubby plant, from Cali- 

 fornia, bearing a profusion of its clusters of blue flowers. It has recently been 

 raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society. 



Eria floribunda. From Sincapore, sent by Mr. Cuming to Mes3rs. Lod- 

 diges. The flowers are small, pink, produced in close spreading racemes. 



Pitcairnia mickantha. From Rio. It has just bloomed in the gardens of 

 Sir Charles Lemon, Bait., M.P., Cavcleu, in Cornwall. It is a very small- 

 growing species. The flower scape is about nine inches high. The flowers are 

 white, about a quarter of an inch across. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 

 On Gentian ei.la. — When is the best time to transplant the Gentianella, and 

 what is the best course of treatment to pursue with it. An early reply by some 

 reader of the Cabinet will oblige 



Lucy. 

 [We grow it well in a sandy loam, in a dry situation. It increases rapidly 

 too; we part the offsets from the parent plants about the end of March, and 

 from a few roots have now made a considerable increase in two seasons. — 

 Conductor] 



On Indian Azaleas. — My Azalea indicas have just gone out of bloom, should 

 I now keep them in the greenhouse, or turn them out to the open air to perfect 



their shoots. 



A Beginner. 



[Keep them in the greenhouse in a shady but airy situation, till the shoots 

 have extended their length, then place them in a shady sheltered place in the 

 open air to form their flower buds. In a recent Number some directions for 

 general treatment was given, to which we refer our correspondent. — Con- 

 ductor.] 



On Impregnation of Flowers. — I am much pleased with the very great 

 improvement recently produced in the beautiful tribe of flowers the Fuchsias by 

 hybridization. I am desirous of raising seedlings of the same family, having 

 procured some very distinct flowering ones for the purpose of impregnation. I 

 shall be glad of a little information how I am to proceed in the process, being 

 unacquainted with its particulars. 



[Just before the blossom is fully expanded, the little slender thread-like 

 substances which have small clubbed heads, that containing pollen (a powder) 

 must have the heads clipped away, leaving untouched the stronger centre sub- 



