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axil of every leaf. It is a very interesting and pretty plant, requiring care to 

 keep it during the heat of summer, particularly if it be grown where the mid- 

 day rays of the sun fall upon it. It requires to be grown in a peat border, par- 

 tially shaded, and the surface of the bed to be covered with moss during summer, 

 which must be removed in autumn. If the plants be watered in dry weather, 

 Dr. Lindley states it is almost certain to kill them. 



Pimelea nana. — Dwarf. (Bot. Mag. 3833.) Thymeleae. Diandria Mono- 

 gynia. A native of the Swan River colony, which was sent from Mr. Low, of 

 the Clapton Nursery, to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, where it bloomed 

 abundantly in the greenhouse, from April to June. The plant grows about nine 

 inches high, erect. Leaves glaucous, hairy. The flowers are produced in ter- 

 minal heads. The perianth is white, tube green. It is a very pretty little plant. 

 Pimelea from pimele, fat. 



Roscoea purpurea. — Purple-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 61.) Zingiberaceae. 

 Monaudria Monogynia. A native of the northern provinces of India. The 

 entire genus is peculiar to the Himalayan Mountains. The present species has 

 bloomed in the garden of the London Horticultural Society. The tubular part 

 of the flower is whitish, tinged with purple. The large-lip portion of it of a fine 

 violet purple. Roscoea, in compliment to William Roscoe, Esq. 



Statics pectinata. — Comb-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 65.) Plumbaginaceaj. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. A native of the Canaries, and is a pretty half-hardy or 

 greenhouse perennial plant. Like several others, it flowers so freely that the 

 plant becomes so exhausted as only to be of two or three years duration, so that 

 fresh plants should be annually raised. It grows from two to three feet high, 

 and blooms nearly all the summer, if planted out in the open border. It is 

 readily produced from seed, and is the best way to obtain strong healthy plants. 



Gladiolus insignis. — Remarkable Corn Flag. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 223.) 

 Iridacea?. Triandria Monogynia. This very splendid flowering plant was 

 purchased at the sale of the late Mr. Colville's plants, Chelsea. It has bloomed 

 in the collection of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter, and is most 

 strikingly beautiful. The flowers are large, and of a splendid crimson red 

 colour, the three lower petals having a purplish streak down the centre of each. 

 It deserves a place wherever it can be grown, being one of the gayest ornaments 

 in the flower garden. It flowers profusely, when grown in a bed of two-thirds 

 sandy peat and the rest rich loam, with the above gentlemen. It blooms from 

 the end of May to September. 



Pelargoniums. {Continued from page 201.) 



Beatrice. — Pretty blush, having a large spot on each of the upper petals, 

 something in the way of Joan of Arc. 



Beaut* (Foster's). — Of a beautiful rosy flesh colour, upper petals with a large 

 dark spot. The flower is large, and of fine form. 



Isedokum. — Fine scarlet-red, having but a small spot on each upper petal. 

 The flower is large, and produces a very glaring show. 



Rienzii.— Pretty rosy-piuk, the upper petals having each a large dark spot. 

 Good form. 



Alcxandrina. — Very pure white, the upper petals having a large dark 

 purple-crimson spot. Good farm. 



Annette. — White, with a slight tinge of blush, upper petals having a large 

 dark spot, slightly lined to the outer edgis. Good form. 



Eliza supkrhum. — White, with slight tinge of blush, upper petals having a 

 large dark spot, much lined to the edges. 



Bridegroom, -Lower petals of a tine pale rose, upper having a large 

 dark clouded spot, shading off at the edge to a rusy-criinsoiK The ceiitie ui the 

 flower is much lighter, giving it a pretty contrast. Of Hue form. 



