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some years, yet being found difficult to propagate, it is very scarce. It is an 

 evergreen shrub, blooming very profusely in clusters of from eight to a dozen 

 blossoms in each. The flowers are of a beautiful yellow, maiked and tinged 

 with red. Each separate blossom is about half an inch across. The plant can 

 be kept dwarf and bushy, or be bushy and attain the height of three feet; to 

 effect which the leads must be stopped. It thrives well in a compost of rough 

 broken loam and peat, with a little leaf-mould added thereto. A free drainage 

 is essential. With such treatment it is one of the nicest greenhouse ornaments. 

 It is best propagated by layering the young ripened shoots. Messrs. Rollissons' 

 possess the species. 



Statice macrophyli.a. Large-leaved Thrift. (Bot. Mag. 4125.) Plum- 

 baginea. Pentandria Pentagynia. A native of the Canary Islands, and is far 

 superior to the Statice arborea. It is now dispersed about the country, and may 

 be had at the principal nurseries. It thrives well in a greenhouse. The panicles 

 of flowers are large, and their fine distinct purple and white produce a striking 

 effect. It is a noble looking shrubby plant. 



Noticed in the Botanical Register, but not figured. 



Napoleona impehiai.is. Mr. Whitfield has lately brought living plants of 

 this rare and remarkable species from Sierra Leone to the Earl of Derby's, at 

 Knowsley Park. In its native habitat it forms a smooth bush, about the size of 

 a Camellia. The leaves are alternate, leathery, between four and six inches 

 long. The flowers grow iu threes, produced at the axils of the leaves ; when 

 fully expanded are two inches in diameter. 



!" Napoleona was so named by De Beauvois, who first found it in woods behind 

 the residence of the King of Oware, in Western Africa. He stated that the 

 flowers were sky-blue, with a fine rayed pink-coloured star in the middle. Mr. 

 Whitfield states that when they are decaying, they then assume a bluish tint. 

 The flower, it appears, consists of three distinct rings, each of which consists of 

 one petal. The first ring is an apricot colour, divided into five lobes, each of 

 which has seven stiff ribs. The second ring is small and thin, cut into sharp 

 pointed segments. The third ring is a rich crimson, and assumes the form of a 

 cup, having the edge cut into fine segments. The fruit is very similar to a 

 pomegranate, of a soft pulp, eatable, and the natives make ink from the rind. 



Plants seen in Nurseries, &c. 



Lisianthus gi.aucivoi.ius. It is said to be a perennial. The plant is not 

 near so robust as L. Russellianus. The flowers are proportionally so, of a pretty 

 lilac-blue colour, and being produced very freely has a showy effect. It does 

 well iu the greenhouse. It has bloomed with Mr. Glendinning at Turnham 

 Green. 



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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Chrysanthemums affected with Mildew. — I observe in the Fi.oricul- 

 tubal Cabinet it is recommended to water plants infected with mildew with 

 nitie dissolved in water. I beg to know, through the same medium, if the leaves 

 can be washed with anything; my Chrysanthemums, though in full bloom, are 

 CoVered with mildew. I also wish to know the cause of the leaves of Pelargo- 

 niums being at times affected with a black sticky stale like melted sugar. How 

 am I to cure or guard against it. 



[Dust the Chrysanthemums over and under the leaves with common flour sul- 

 phur. If the Pelargoniums be plunged over head in a mixture of clay ami water 



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