THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



DECEIWBER 1st, 1843. 



PART I. 

 EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



1. ACHIMENES HIRSUTA. HAIRY ACHIMENES. 

 Gesneueace.e. Didynamia Angiospermia. 

 This is another interesting and valuable acquisition to the lovely 

 family of Achimenes, and deserves, like the others, to be grown in 

 every collection. The habit of the plant is somewhat in the way of 

 A. pedunculata. The flowers are much larger than those of the 

 latter named species, and the plant blooms very freely. The plant 

 we saw exhibited on 5th September last, was a beaut. ful specimen, 

 and continued so up to the end of October, when we last saw it in 

 the collection of Mr. Henderson, of the Pine-Apple Place Nursery, 

 Edgeware-road, London. 



It sprang up spontaneously among the roots of a mass of Orchi- 

 daceae from Guatemala, which Mr. Henderson recently purchased of 

 Mr. Skinner. When we saw it, plants were offered at a guinea each. 

 It thrives with the same kind of treatment as A.longiflora.rosea, &c, 

 and ought to be a companion for them wherever practicable. 



2. GLOXINIA D1GITALIFLORA. FOX-GLOVE FLOWERED. 



Gesnehkace.e. Didynamia Angiospkuhia. 

 Last month we figured a very neat and handsome Gloxinia raised 

 in this country; we no.v give one of South American, or Mexican 

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