THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



AUGUST 1st, 1843. 



PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



ACHIMENES MULTIFLORA. 



Within a short period we have had the pleasure of figuring three 

 beautiful new kinds of this lovely tribe of flowering plants, to which we 

 now add another handsome species. Mr. Gardner discovered it in 

 the province of Goyaz, in Brazil, who sent seeds of it to this country, 

 and it has recently bloomed in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. 

 We saw a fine specimen of it in bloom; and its numerous pretty 

 coloured fringed flowers produce a very interesting appearance. We 

 observed some of the flowers were very distinctly fringed, and others 

 but imperfectly, the variableness giving greater interest in its appear- 

 ance. The plant grows about a foot high, and is as easy of culture 

 as the other kinds. It deserves a place in every collection of similar 

 plants, blooming profusely and for several successive months. 



RIBES ALBIDUM. 



This very beautiful hybrid was raised in the gardens of Admiral 

 Sir Uavid Milne, G.C.B., at Inveresk, near Musselburgh, from 

 whence it came into the possession of Messrs. Handasydes, Nursery- 

 men of Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, who have had plants for sale 

 during the past season. The well-known Ribes sanguineum, most of 



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