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The flowers are large, the outside of the tube a beautiful rosy-scarlet 

 and tlie inside a pure white. It deserves to be in every flower garden, 

 and grown in masses, or singly, is a striking object. A bed of tliis 

 grown in contrast with P. azureus, witii their rich blue flowers, 

 would have a fine effect. Now is the time to provide, by striking 

 cutting?, a stock of young plants for next year's bloom. 



PiMELEA Nebergiana. — The plant is of a dwarf and bushy habit. 

 The flowers white, neat, and pretty. 



PiMELEA Verschaffeltii. — The foliage is of a light hue. The 

 flowers are white with very showy yellow anthers. The above were 

 exhibited at the London Horticultural shows, the past season. 



Rhododendron Cinnamomeum, var. Cunninghami. — This most 

 beautiful variety is an hybrid raised between R. Cinnamomeum and a 

 late R. white-flowered maximum. It was raised in tlie nursery of Mr. 

 George Cunningham, of Liverpool. It is quite hardy, and the heads 

 of flowers are large, each blossom being two and a half inches across, 

 a pure white, and beautifully spotted on the upper section of the 

 flower witli dark purple, which produces a pretty contrast on the white 

 ground. It is a valuable acquisition to this noble tribe of plants. 

 (Figured in Paxton's Flower Garden, Plate 16.) 



RoDFELiA GRATA (Syn. Stropliauthus Stanleyanus.) — A smooth 

 half-climbing shrub, from Sierra Leone. The flowers are produced in 

 terminal cymous iieads of six or eight in each. A separate blossom is 

 two inches and a half across, fleshy, white tinged with pale rose ; tube 

 one incii and a half long. As the flowers become older they change to 

 a cream colour. If the plant be properly grown it blooms very freely 

 and becomes one of tlie finest stove climbers, the flowers being fragrant 

 adds to its value. Being a native of tropical Africa it requires vigor- 

 ous growth first, and a tliorough ripening of tlie new shoots in order to 

 a successful bloom. With such attention an abundance of flowers is 

 produced. (Figured in Magazine of Botany.') 



Veronica speciosa, var. Kermesina. — A variety raised in 

 Devonshire, the flowers being a beautiful rose colour. The variety 

 raised two years ago, named V. speciosa coccinea, is a beautiful addi- 

 tion. These varieties, grown in contrast with the original species, 

 with its deep purple-violet flowers, will produce a pretty effect. We 

 have had some large plants in profuse bloom in the open air for a long 

 time, and they appear likely to continue. These charming shrubs will 

 flourish without injury in the open air, when grown in a dry situation, 

 and i)rotected from the north-east winds in winter. It is indispensable 

 to get the new wood well ripened. This being obtained the plants are 

 as iiardy as the connnon Laurel and ought to be in every shrubbery. 

 As we now possess several f-ne new shrubby species of Veronica, it is 

 well worth attention to impregnate the flowers with each other in order 

 to obtain other handsome varieties. Having the red, white, rose amd 

 purple-violet, and other colours, a beautiful progeny may be readily 

 obtained. 



