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easy to cultivate, readily propagated, and may be procured at a small 

 price. 



Camellia Marta Morren. — This is a very superb variety, of the 

 imbricate (tiled-liice) section. The flowers are large, fine outline, 

 well filled to the centre, of a bright carmine colour, with irregular- 

 shaped patches of white. It merits a place in every collection. Mr. Van 

 Houtte possesses the variety. 



Cape Pelargoniums. — The following are the handsomest of wha\, 

 we have seen exhibited this season. They are a lovely, interesting 

 tribe, and ought to be grown in every greenhouse. The cultivation is 

 now becoming more general, from the circumstance of many being 

 brought to the London and other large exhibitions, and thus being 

 seen well grown, they attract much attention. 



Bicolor, white ground with broad stripes of crimson. 



Bicolor rosea, a delicate lilac rosy ground, with a dark spot on each 

 petal. 



Erectum, pink, each petal having a white patch at the centre, forming 

 an eye. 



Fulgldiim, scarlet with black stripe. 



Blandfordium^ white with a rose spot on each petal. 



Reniforme, pink and red stripe. 



Flexuosum, deep rosy-red and white. 



Glaucifolium, yellow and brown stripe. 



CoLUMNEA AURANTiACA. — This is a most beautiful species, de- 

 serving a place in every stove or warm greenhouse. The flowers have 

 much the appearance of a large wide flower of a Siphocampylus, two 

 inches long, and front spreading portion an inch and a half broad, of 

 a rich orange colour. It is a half-shrubby plant, somewhat climbing, 

 and of a succulent character. It grows and blooms very freely. It 

 requires to be treated same as the ^schynanthus. (Figured in the 

 Flora of the Gardens of Europe, and may be obtained from M. Van 

 Houtte.) 



i CuFHEA iGNEA. — The Cuphca platycentra of our gardens is not the 

 true species, and the one now generally known as such has been altered 

 to C. ignea, the fiery. We record this here, in order that none of our 

 readers may order under the new name what they already possess. 



Ci'PRiPEDiuM LowEi. — Mr. Low, jun., discovered this pretty 

 species growing on high trees in tliick jungle in Borneo, who for- 

 warded it to the Clapton Nursery. It bloomed for the first time in 

 this country in the garden of A. Kenrick, Esq., of West Bromwich. 

 It requires to be grown in the Orchid stove, and in rich vegetable com- 

 post, such as one-half decomposed sphagnum moss, and the other half 

 rich fibrous peat soil. Each flower has lateral (side) petals three inches 

 long, of a yellowish-green near the base, spotted with purplish-brown, 

 purplish-rose witli yellow margins and midribs on the upper half. La- 

 bellum one and half inches long, with the pouch an inch deep, of a 

 purplish-green. Sepals green with a purple tinge. (Figured in Ma- 

 gazine of Bolany.) 



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