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using the same proportion, with the quicklime-wash, and thus apply- 

 ing them together. This has succeeded also. 



By the above attentions such plants as Thunbergias, &c, which 

 are very liable to be attacked by the insect, are kept perfectly free 

 and flourish vigorously. Fuchsias I find cannot bear the sulphur 

 fumes, I therefore remove them when applying the sulphur, and keep 

 the house closed. They might probably bear it if of a much lower 

 degree of intensity. 



PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Aerides vihens. Green-leaved Air Plant. (Bot Reg. 41.) Orchidacea?. 

 Gynandria Monandria. Sent from Java to Messrs. Loddiges's, with whom it 

 has bloomed. It is a beautiful addittion to this interesting family. Sepals and 

 petals French white, each having a deep purple blotch at the end. Lip same 

 colour, speckled with crimson, and having a green curved tip. The flowers are 

 produced on a pendulous raceme, about six inches long, each blossom being an 

 inch and a half across. They are deliciously fragrant. 



Asclepias vestita. Hairv-stemmed. (Bot. Mag. 4106.) Asclepidacea?. 

 Pentandria Digynia. From North America, seeds having been received from 

 thence by Messrs. Veitchs, of Exeter. It is a herbaceous perennial plant. The 

 flowers are numerously produced, in dense umbels of from twenty to thirty 

 blossoms in each. Each blossom is about half an inch across, of a yellowish 

 green, the underside of the calyx of a reddish purple colour. 



Berberis imbellata. Umbellate. (Bot. Reg. 44.) Berberacea?. Hexan- 

 dria Monogynia. (Synonym Berberis floribunda.) A hardy sub-evergreen bush, 

 growing about three feet high, which has been raised in the garden of the 

 London Horticultural Society. The flowers are produced abundantly in June, in 

 racemes each about two inches long, of a bright yellow colour, each segment of 

 the calyx having a red tip. The plant is easily distinguished by its narrow 

 spineless leaves. 



Dryandra Formosa. The Splendid. (Bot. Mag. 4102.) Proteaceae. Te- 

 trandria Monogynia. From South-west Australia. It is grown in the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew. The flowers are of a rich yellow, tinged with a reddish brown. 

 It is a noble and (when in bloom) a highly interesting proteaceous plant. The 

 one in the Kew collection is now about five yards high, making a fine conserva- 

 tory plant. 



Epidendrum vitellinum. Yolk-of-Egg Epidbndrum. (Bot. Mag. 4107.) 

 From Oaxaca, in Mexico, which has bloomed in the Kew collection. The flower- 

 scape rises about a foot high, bearing a raceme of rich flowers. Sepals and 

 petals of a fine orange colour; labellum of a bright yellow. Each blossom is 

 near two inches across. 



IIabrotiiamnus ei.eoans. Elegant. (Bot. Reg. 43.) Ceslraceae. Pen- 

 tandria Monogynia. A native of Mexico, specimens of which have been sent to 

 this country by Mr. Van Houtte, nurseryman, of Ghent. It is a smooth, soft- 

 wooded, shrubby plant, requiring a similar treatment to Pelargoniums. The 

 plant is branching. The flowers are produced in terminal cymes of nearly 

 twenty blossoms in each. The tube of the corolla is ventricose, three quarters of 



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