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wJiere it bloomed, in the stove, last summer. It is a fine slinibby 

 plant, and will grow six feet high if allowed, but it is readily grown as 

 a bushy one by stopping- the leads. The flowers are borne in large, 

 loose, corymbous heads, they are white and very fragrant. Each 

 blossom is about an inch and a-half long. The flowers will contrast 

 very prettily with the high-coloured kinds. (Figured iu Bot. 31ag., 

 4513.) 



LiBocEDRus Chilensis.' — Messrs. Low and Co. introduced this fine 

 plant from Cliili. It has the habit of an Arbor Vitae, and is a fine ever- 

 green tree, from thirty to eighty feet high. It is a handsome species. 



LiBOCEDRUS TETRAGOSA, or Juniperus uvifera. — A very fine ever- 

 green, introduced by Messrs. Veitch from the cold southern regions of 

 South America. It is a magnificent species, a rival for Araucaria im- 

 bricata. It grows from fifty to eiglity feet high. 



NuTTALLiA CERxiSiFORMis. — Bird Cherry-like. A native of Cali- 

 fornia, growing in the woods. It is a hardy shrub, two feet high. The 

 flowers are produced in nodding racemes, of a greenish-white. It is in 

 the garden of the Horticultural Society. 



Okcidium trillingue. — A half-climbing species of Orchid, from 

 Peru, which has been introduced into this country by Sir P. M. G. 

 Egerton, Bart., M.P., of Oulton Park, in Cheshire, wliere it has 

 recently bloomed. The flowers are of a deep chocolate brown, the 

 petals and crest of the lip being edged and spotted with bright yellow. 



Pimelea Verschaffeltii. — Mr. Ayres, of Blackheath, possesses 

 this new species. The leaves are lance-shaped. The blossoms are 

 white, and fragrant in the evening. 



Rhododendron Eollissonii. — It is a half hardy tree from the 

 mountains of Ceylon, being the wild tree Rhododendron of the Cinga- 

 lese Hills, and it differs mucli from the other Indian tree Rhododen- 

 drons, llie leaves being broad and short, whilst those of the latter are 

 narrow and long. Mr. Bootli, gardener to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., 

 M.P., describes it as follows iu Paxton's Flower Garden for May, 

 where a fine figure of it is given. " This is now in great beauty in the 

 open border (in Cornwall), and proves to be a very fine tiling, far sur- 

 passing, in my opinion, the old Rhododendron arboreum, or any of the 

 numerous liybrid productions that have originated from it. Tlie head 

 of flowers is round and compact ; they are of a rosy-red, with an 

 orange blotch on the upper segment. A single flower is near two inches 

 across. 



Tlie plant has been growing in the open air in Sir C. Lemon's 

 garden for several years, and not in the least injured by the severity of 

 winter. Dr. Lindley remarks, there are now the following five distinct 

 races of Indian Rliododendrons : — Tlie old Scarlet Tree Rhododendron 

 (R. arborca), having rich blood-red flowers, long flat leaves, silvery 

 underneath ; it is doubtful whether there be a wliite variety. The 

 Cinnamon Tree Rhododendron (R. cinnamomeum), leaves long, flat, 

 deep green, wrinkled and narrow, covered beneath Avith a coarse, 

 shaggy, rusty wool. The Bearded 2\ee Rhododendron (R. barba- 



