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handsome climbing plants that has been introduced into this country. 

 It is a native of Madagascar, from whence it was imported by Mrs. 

 Lawrence, of Ealing Park, in whose splendid collection of stove- 

 plants we have several times seen it in bloom. The same specimen 

 has been exhibited at the London Horticultural Society's shows in 

 the Chiswick Gardens ; it is trained to a circular wire trellis about 

 two feet and a half in diameter and nine feet high, densely covered 

 with a noble rich green foliage and quite loaded with a profusion of 

 its fine clusters of lovely fragrant pearl white flowers. 



The plant is of easy culture, grows rapidly, and flowers the greater 

 part of summer, and deserves to be in every collection. It may be 

 procured at a very reasonable rate at the public Nurseries. 



ARTICLE II. 



REMARKS ON THE PINK. 



BY MR. THOMAS IBBETT, FLORIST, BULL FIELDS, WOOLWICH, IN KENT. 



On perusal of the last December Number of your valuable work, the 

 Floricultural Cabinet, I noticed an article on the above subject, 

 written by a person who styled himself " Florista," of a " Midland 

 County ; " I should have felt great pleasure if he had signed his 

 name to it. The writer, in the first place, states, that several Articles 

 have already appeared in your Cabinet, on the cultivation of the 

 Pink, which I grant is very correct, having myself written three 

 upon that beautiful plant, but never (I beg to observe) without 

 always signing my name and address ; to afford any person who 

 might feel disposed an opportunity of correcting or answering any 

 observation which I may have made in those Articles. " Florista " 

 next says, " It is generally understood that northern and southern 

 Florists are at issue on the properties requisite to constitute a first- 

 rate variety of this particular class of Florists' flowers ; " here I 

 wish to state I differ very much from the writer, having for many 

 years past had the pleasure of supplying the above-named plant in 

 several northern districts, viz., Yorkshire, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 

 Felton, Percy-main, and various other places in the north, where I 

 have invariably found the opinion to be in perfect accordance with 

 those of the south ; but, if I may be allowed to conjecture, perhaps 

 " Florista " alludes to Lancashire, if so, I have no hesitation in 



