THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



JUNE 1st, 1844. 



PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



ACHIMENES PICTA. 



This very lovely flowering plant has recently been introduced into 

 this country, and has been distributed to several of the principal nur- 

 sery establishments by the London Horticultural Society. We are 

 not aware of its native habitation, but as it flourishes well in the same 

 circumstances and treatment as the other new species, we suppose it 

 to be from the same country. The plants we saw, in most profuse 

 bloom, were about a foot high, and had been kept in a plant-stove. 

 There is no doubt but, if grown in a hotbed frame during its early 

 stage, it may be removed into a warm greenhouse, &c, to be a sum- 

 mer's ornament there. We understand it will bloom from April to 

 the end of October, and certainly deserves a place wherever it can be 

 grown. 



NERIUM OLEANDER VAR. TANGII. 



We met with this very beautiful and ornamental plant in the col- 

 lection of Messrs. Lane and Sons, of Berkhamstead, and from whom 

 we obtained plants. It grows freely, and blooms profusely, even when 

 the plants are quite dwarf. It is of easy culture, and one of the most 

 interesting of greenhouse plants, well deserving a place in every one. 



v,.i.. XII. No. 136. 



