NOTES ON FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 29 
its numerous bottle-brush-formed heads of flowers, of a bright red 
colour, had a very handsome appearance. It was grown in a sandy 
loam, not vigorously, and this appeared to have induced it to bloom so 
freely. 
The Epacrises we noticed in our last were still in fine bloom, and 
the following additional ones :— 
Epracris vARriABILis.—The flowers are bell-shaped, half an inch 
long, of a deep pink colour. A very pretty kind. 
EPacris MAGNIFICA.—Long tube, pink with a white end. 
Epracris TERNATUS.—tube three parts of an inch long, a pretty 
pink with a pure white end. Very handsome. 
EPAcRIS RUBRA-GRANDIFLORA.—Foliage small, neat. ‘The flowers 
are bell-shaped, half an inch long; when in bud a bright red, but a 
pretty pink when expanded. The contrast is very interesting and 
handsome. 
Epacris sPLENDENS.—-F lowers bell-shaped, bright red in bud, and 
a pretty flesh colour when expanded. 
Epacris DELICATISSIMA.—F lowers bright red, tube one inch long. 
Very showy. 
Epacris rpunGENs.—F lowers white, tube short, and broad end, 
produced in spikes about half a yard long. 
EpPacris PURPURASCENS.—Tube short, with a broad star-shaped 
end. Nearly white outside, but the inside a purplish-red. 
We have given the particular descriptions of this lovely winter- 
blooming tribe of plants in our last and present Numbers, to enable 
our readers to make a selection of the most handsome, or of dissimilar 
coloured flowers. 
Horricutturau Socrety’s Mrerine, January 16. 
SERICOGRAPHIA GHIESBREGHTIANA.—A plant was exhibited by 
Messrs. Hendersons, but it was a sickly specimen, the foliage being 
pale, when naturally it is of a deep green ; the red tube-shaped flowers 
were not so bright in colour either, for when properly grown they are 
of the brightest scarlet. When this Justicia-like shrubby plant, now 
considered half-herbaceous, is properly managed, it is one of the 
handsomest winter-flowering plants we have, and blooms for a very 
long time. It requires to be grown in a warm greenhouse or stove. 
It flourishes admirably in the stove at the Chiswick Garden of the 
Horticultural Society. 
NOTES ON FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
THE VERBENA. 
Turis pretty little flower is not only one of the most valuable for the 
flower-garden, but a very interesting and increasingly popular one for 
exhibition. In making choice selections for these objects, the principal 
considerations are very different. For the first-named purpose, those 
which are brilliant and decided in their colours appear most hardy, and 
