24.4 new and rare plants. 



Of Hvacinths, Dwarf Tulips, &c, in Pots. 



Hyacinths, Narcissuses, Jonquils, Tulips, Persian Irises, and other 

 bulbs for early blooming in pots, (without any hot-beds or green- 

 house,) should be planted early in October, for which purpose deep- 

 shaped flower-pots should be procured, called bulb pots, placing 

 crocks or coarse gravel at bottom for drainage, and be filled to within 

 two inches of the top with rich loam, containing a portion of fine 

 road sand and decayed manure ; then place the bulb on the same 

 without pressure in so doing, and fill to the top with the same com- 

 post, after which a little pressure should be used, which will settle the 

 bulb and mould firmly together with the top of the bulb just above 

 the surface of the soil. 



When the desired number of roots have been thus potted, they 

 should be removed to any spare corner of the garden, and buried to 

 the top of the pots in the earth, when they must be covered with 

 leaves, rotten tanner's bark, or any other light dry substances to the 

 depth of nine or ten inches, where they may remain without any 

 attention until the plants will be found to have vegetated an inch or 

 two; they should then be removed, and placed in any warm and light 

 situation, where they will make rapid progress, and produce blossoms 

 far superior to those obtained by other modes of treatment. 



PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Acacia rotundifolia. Round-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 4041.) Leguminosae. 

 Polygamia Monaecia. A native of New Holland, from whence it was sent by 

 James Backhouse, Esq., of York Nursery. It bloomed last spring in the green- 

 house of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. It is a straggling shrubby plant, 

 and when trained to a trellis, its graceful drooping branches and copious pro- 

 fusion of blossoms, having far more heads of flowers than leaves, produces an 

 elegant appearance. It forms a shrub three or four feet high, and well deserves 

 a place in every greenhouse. 



Astiria rosea. Pink Astiuia. (Bot. Reg. 49.) Buttneriaceae. Mona- 

 delphia Pentagynia. From the Mauritius. It has bloomed in the collection at 

 Sion Gardens during the last spring. The plant forms a fine tree in its native 

 country; it has a noble heart-shaped foliage. The flowers are produced in a 

 shoit axillary peduncle, forming a cymous head, of about twenty flowers. 

 Each blossom is about an inch across, of a pretty blush colour, with a deeper 

 tinge at the centre. 



ClJERODF.NDRUM INFORTUNATUM. UnFOKTUNATE Cl.ERODENDRUM. (Pax. 



Mag. Bot.) We noticed this fine plant in a recent number, and recur to it now 



