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deep-blood colour. Each blossom is nearly two inches long. It 
blooms very freely. It is a native of the forests of Brazil, and grows 
very freely, treated as a stove orchideous plant, either suspended in a 
basket or otherwise. It is in the collection of Messrs. Henderson, of 
Pine Apple Place Nursery. (Figured in Bot. Mag. 4460.) 
RHODODENDRON FORMOSUM—THE BEAUTIFUL. 
In 1815, the late Mr. Smith discovered this handsome species on the 
mountains bordering on Silhet, in eastern Himalaya. It is stated to 
be the same as the R. Gibsoni of Mr, Paxton, which Mr. Gibson, 
collector for his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, brought from India 
seven years back. It does best in the greenhouse in this country. The 
plant forms a slender shrub, with foliage, about the size and form of a 
well-grown Indian Azalea. The flowers are of a delicate white, 
tinged with yellow and rose, and having five stripes of red outside. 
Each a is nearly four inches across. (Figured in Bot. Mag. 
4457. 
RHoDODENDRON CAMPANULATUM SUPERBUM. 
A beautiful hybrid raised by Mr. Jackson, nurseryman, Kingston, in 
Surrey. It is perfectly hardy. The flowers are white, the upper seg- 
ment being strikingly spotted with a dark colour. Each flower is 
about two inches and a-half across. (Figured in Pax. Mag. Bot.) 
THE PINK. 
‘© Each Pink sends forth its choicest sweet 
Aurora’s warm embrace to meet.”,— Urs. M. Robinson. 
Tue Pink, which is now made the emblem of lively and pure affection, 
may be considered asa child of art; and on no plant has the florist 
been more happily successful, than in the instance of having trans- 
formed an insignificant weed into one of the most delightful charms 
which the lap of Flora contains. This flower was entirely unknown to 
the Greeks, and it was also a stranger to the Romans until the time 
of Augustus Cesar, when it was discovered in that part of Spain then 
inhabited by a ferocious and warlike people called Cantabri, and which 
country is now named Biscay. These people having rebelled against 
the then masters of the world, were conquered by Augustus, and 
during these struggles the plant was discovered and conveyed to Rome, 
where it was called Cantabrica, after the country from whence it was 
procured, (Pliny, lib. 25, c. 8.) Our readers will not be surprised 
that a people whose principal profession was the art of war, should 
have attended to so simple a flower as the Pink then was in its natural 
state, when they reflect that flowers were esteemed one of the luxuries 
of those people, who seldom sat at their meals without wearing chaplets 
of fragrant blossoms, and as novelty has ever had its charms, a new 
flower possessing a spicy fragrance would naturally excite considerable 
attention, 
Dr. Turner, one of our earliest writers on plants, calls it Cantabrica 
Gelouer, and from him we learn that it was then cultivated in our 
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