268 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



of the very best cups, occasionally feathered, but often far too heavily 

 flamed. Although often grown fine about the metropolis, it is unfor- 

 tunately very seldom so in the north of England. 



Prince Leopold bloomed very fine with me this last season, and 

 seems a very good flower, clean in the cup and finely flamed. 



Having now noticed a few of the leading flowers, and trespassed, 

 I fear, on the pages of the Cabinet, I shall close for the present. 

 If spared with health to see another blooming season, it is my in- 

 tention to furnish youwitha brief tabulated catalogue of all the prin- 

 cipal varieties grown in the north, so that it may be easy of reference. 

 I trust the foregoing hasty remarks will be useful to your corres- 

 pondent, and if he acts upon them, and selects from the list, I think 

 they will not readily disappoint him. He has my best wishes for his 

 success, and I shall be glad to learn at any future time that the 

 varieties he purchases from the foregoing list, have afforded him as 

 much gratification as I myself have derived from them. 



Felton Bridge End, October 18, 1844. 



PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Biqnonia Carolina. Lady Caroline's Bignonia. (Bot. Reg. 54.) Big- 

 noniaceae. Didynamia Angiospermia. Said to be a native of Buenos Ayres. 

 It has bloomed in the collection of plants at the Earl of Ilchester's, Melbury, 

 in Dorsetshire. It is a neat climbing species, blooming profusely. The flowers 

 are fragrant, of a snowy-white. Each blossom is nearly two inches long and one 

 and a half across the five-limbed face. The plant is of that class suited to be 

 trained round a wire trellis, and so bringing a mass of bloom together. It is a 

 very desirable plant for a conservatory or warm greenhouse. In order to induce 

 them to bloom well the pot should be placed where the roots can receive warmth. 

 The finest blooming plants of Biguouia venusta we ever saw, were grown in 

 tubular boxes placed at the ends of a bark pit, in a coolish vinery, holes being 

 bored at the sides through which the roots protruded into the old tanner's bark. 

 The entire tribe of Biguonias is comprised of loveiy flowering plants, and if cul- 

 tivated properly, and trained as is usually done to what are termed pot climbing 

 plants, as Manettia, Tropaeolums, &c, they would rank as of first-rate beauty. 



Cattleya Skinneri. Mr. Skinner's Catleya. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Orchi- 

 daceae. Gynandria Monandria. A native of Guatemala. Fine plants have 

 bloomed in the collections of F. G. Cox, Esq., of Stockwell, in Surrey, and 

 Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney. The plant requires a higher, but very moist, 

 degree of heat than any other of the Cattleyas. The flowers are produced on 

 stiff, short racemes. Each blossom four inches across. Sepals and petals of a 

 rich lively rose colour. Lip rose with a dark circle at the mouth, and the inside 

 of the funnel-formed portion, white. 



CHABRiBA RUNC1NATA. CHANGEABLE FLOWERED. (Bot. Mag. 41 16.) Com- 



