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by the latter part of October. They may remain in this situation, 

 with proper protection, till the beginning of March, giving but very 

 little water. When they begin to grow, examine them to see if any 

 of them want potting; the strong growing kinds should not be in less 

 than six or seven inch diameter pots. If it be desired to bloom them 

 early, give them a slight lining ; but if a little patience be exercised, 

 and not give them much artificial heat, they will amply repay by a 

 more vigorous and splendid bloom. 



If these few remarks on one of our most admired class of plants 

 are carefully attended to in practice, the most desired success will 

 follow. Old plants will not do, neither will younger. 



PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Bassi.-ea paicifoi.ia. Few leaved. (Bot. Reg. G3.) Leguminosa;. Dia- 

 delphia Decandria. (Synonym B. virgata.) This^very neat species has been 

 raised from seeds sent from the Swan River Colony to R. Mangles, Esq., of Sun- 

 ning Hill, in Berks. We have seen several specimens of it in bloom in the 

 collection of New Holland plants at the Clapton Nursery. The plant is 

 readily kept as a dwarf compact bush by stopping the leading shoots, and when 

 so treated, blooms much more freely. The pretty pea-formed blossoms of a 

 bright yellow and crimson red colour, each being near half an inch across, are 

 both interesting and showy. It well deserves a situation in the greenhouse. 



Cirrhopetai.oi alratum. Gold-edged. (Bot. Reg. 61.) Orchidacea*. 

 Gynandria JMonandria. A native of Manilla, and has bloomed with Messrs. 

 Loddiges. It is a very singular species, rooting profusely round the branches 

 of a tree or piece of wood, and hangs down gracefully therefrom, producing 

 umbels of flowers which are singularly balanced in the air, the strap shaped 

 lateral sepals looking like so many party-coloured ribbons of crimson red, yellow, 

 and purple, mottled, spotted, and striped, collected into a balloon. 



Cycnoches ventricosum ; yah. Eqertonianum. Sir Francis Egerton's 

 Variety. (Bot. Mag. 4054.) The flowers are produced in long racemes, each 

 blossom is about an inch and a half across, of a pretty purple colour inside, the 

 outside green with a slight purple tinge spotted with deep purple. 



Diim.oi./ena Dampiekii. Dampier's Diplolaena. (Bot. Mag. 4059.) Rutacea. 

 Polyandria Monogynia. A native of Western Australia. It is a moderate sized 

 shrub, blooming freely in the greenhouse in April and May, producing a very 

 pretty appearance. The flowers are crimson and yellow, produced in drooping 

 heads near two inches across. The florets in each head are numerous. 



Babringtonia fpeciosa. The showy. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Myrtacea?. Mo- 

 nodelphia Polyandria. This noble plant grows to the size of a small tree, but 

 with management can be bloomed in the stove as a dwarf bush of the height of 

 three or four feet. It grows plentifully in the various parts of India, China, &c. 

 The leaves are a foot in length, of a bright shining green. The flowers are 

 produced numerously, in an erect thyrse, white, with a vast number of deep 

 blood-coloured stamens. A plant lias recently bloomed under the manage- 

 ment of Mr. Dodds, gardener to Colonel Baker, of Salisbury, the flower spike 

 being near two feet long. Mr. Dodds withheld water from the plant from 

 November to about the middle of March, it was then dulv watered and started 



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