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Stypandra graudiflora, flowers in panicles, blue. 



C'isia hirsuta, micrantha, versicolor, flowers pink, changing to blue. 



Sowerbaea laxiflora, flowers pink. 



Thysanotus asper, flowers purple, anceps, triandrous. 



NEW PLANTS DESCRIBED IN DR. LINDLEY'S LAST NUMBER 

 OF BOTANICAL REGISTER, AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE FLORA 

 JAPONICA. 



Rhododendron Metternichii, like R. maxima, but having purple flowers. 



Primus Murae, a yelli w fruited plum. 



Benthamia Japonica, smaller than B. fragifera. 



Stachyurus prsecox, tails of whitish flowers. 



Abelia serrata, flowers white. 



Forsythia suspeusa, yellow. 



Anemone cernua. 



Japonica. 



Pawlownia imperialis, flowers trumpet-shaped, in large panicle?, purple, a very 



magnificent plant. 

 Diervilla hortensis, grandiflora, florilmnda, and versicolor, shrubs, flowers trum- 

 pet-shaped, rose-coloured or white. 

 We again recommend those persons who wish to form correct collections^of 

 these plants to procure Dr. Lindley's. appendix. — Conductoh. 



PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES.! 



On a List of each Class of Tulips.— Should the Gentleman, who for- 

 waided the able article on the Tulip, written by a foreigner, and inserted in the 

 last number of the " Floricultural Cabinet," be willing to give a truly .'foreign 

 list of forty or fifty of the principal flowers, with prices, possessing the four 

 qualities he describes, he would much oblige the amateurs in general, and par- 

 ticularly 



Your original Subscriber, 



Hackney, Dec. 1839. Tknurb. 



Let me crave your instructions how to manage the three following plants, 

 which I never could succeed in bringing to perfection ; viz. Gladiolus cardinalis, 

 Ixias and Ipomopsis elegans. How is this last to be kept over the winter ; and 

 particularly if it throws up flower-shoots in the autumn? It often damps oft' 

 with me, or dies at once without any cause that I can detect. Give me an early 

 answer if you please. 



On Ahnott's Stove, &c. — Has any one tried Arnott's Stove in a Conserva- 

 tory, and with what success ? 



The new crown glass mentioned by Loudon is too recent a discovery for any 

 to have tried it, I presume. 



SuitREYENSIS. 



On a list of the bust Dahlias.— A new Dahlia grower would be much 

 obliged to you or any of your correspondents that have seen the various exhi- 

 bitions of Dahlias last season, if they will insert in the " Cabinet" for next 

 month, or as early as possible, a select list of twenty-four or fifty of the best 

 sorts they have seen and can recommend. 'F. J. 



On diiying and PiiKSKUviNG Floweks.— I should ft»l extremely obliged to 



