ON EPACRIS GKANDIFLOBA AND COKEiEA SPECIOSA, &C. 199 



S. roirYPHYLLUS. — It is a half-shrubby plant, branching, bearing 

 rich scarlet-coloured flowers. A native of New Grenada. 



S. LASiANDRUs. — A half-shrubby plant, somewhat of a climbing 

 habit, producing rich scarlet-coloured flowers. From New Grenada. 



The Tulip, Dr. Horner. — This fine variety was raised by Mr, 

 Groom, of Clapham Rise. It is a light-feathered bizarre, with a 

 slender beam down the centre of each petal. It is a superb formed 

 flower, pure rich yellow ground, with rich dark maroon feather and 

 beam. (Figured in Magazine of Botany.) 



Thibaudia scabriuscula. — A very pretty greenhouse, evergreen 

 bush, a native of New Grenada. It is of the Cranberry order of plants. 

 The flowers are produced at the ends of the branches, drooping, about 

 six together. Each blossom is about three-quarters of an inch long, 

 the corolla is of a rich crimson-colour tipped with green. The flowers 

 are at their origin surrounded with pink scales. It is grown in the 

 Syon Gardens. 



ON EPACRIS GRANDIFLORA AND CORR^A 

 SPECIOSA, &c. 



In reading over a recent Number of the FloricultuRal Cabinet, I 

 see a correspondent wishes for information on the following genus of 

 plants ; if my mite of knowledge will be of any service to him, orany one 

 similarly situated, and you consider it worth occupying a space in your 

 useful Magazine, you are at liberty to publish it in any shape you 

 please. 



Epacris Grandiflora, propagation of, from January to March. — 

 1st. Take a clean 48-size pot, put a large cork in the bottom, then add 

 a quantity of small crocks, or coarse cinders, until the pot is half full ; 

 upon this put a layer of moss beat down firm, fill up with fine sifted 

 peat mould, and white silver sand ; an equal quantity mixed together, 

 pressing it down firm to within a quarter of an inch of the rim of the 

 pot ; fill up with clean sifted silver sand, passing a stick over the pot 

 to make the surface level ; give a slight watering with a fine rose pot 

 or syringe ; take a bell glass, press it lightly on the sand so as to leave 

 the circumference ; then select your cuttings from last year's ripened 

 wood, cut the tops of the shoots about one inch long, strip the cutting- 

 half its length of leaves, lay it on your thumb nail, with a sharp knife, 

 cut the base at a joint quite smooth, and when a suflficient quantity to 

 fill the pot is prepared insert the cuttings as far as stripped, keeping 

 the tallest, if any, in the centre ; give a good watering to settle the 

 sand about them ; let them stand until dry ; cover with the bell glass, 

 and plunge the pot in a cold frame facing the north ; keep the light on, 

 protecting from frost with covering, or, for want of a frame, place the 

 pot on a north shelf in the greenhouse, but by no means in the sun ; wipe 

 the glass once a day ; water according to judgment, keeping them rather 

 dry than moist. AVhen the cuttings begin to grow, take the glass oflT 

 occasionally half au hour, and increase with air as the cuttings increase 



