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quite hardy, and begins to bloom in ApriL The foliage is like that 

 of a short-leaved Erica, and the flowers in terminal corymbous heads 

 of eight to ten in each. A separate blossom is half an inch across. It 

 is a beautiful little shrub, well worth a place in every shrubbery. 

 (Figured in Paxtou's Flotver Garden, No. 19.) 



Caccoloba macrophylla. Sea-side Grape. — It is an interesting 

 upright growing stove plant, having very large, heart-shaped leaves. 

 The principal ornaments are the immense leaves, and long, dense 

 spikes, composed of brilliant red berries. (Figured in Bot. Mag. 

 4536.) 



Delphinium cheilanthum, var. Hendersoni. — This very showy 

 variety of Bee Larkspur was raised by Mr. Chauviere, Nurseryman, of 

 Paris, and purchased by Mr. Henderson, Nurseryman, of St. John's 

 Wood, London. It is a charming perennial, and deserves to be in 

 every flower garden. The flowers are single, each being nearly two 

 inches across, of a rich, bright azure blue, with a white centre, having 

 a small yellow spot upon it. It is a very showy variety. (Figured 

 in Bot. Mag.) 



EccREMocARPUS SCABRA. — There is a plant growing in a border, 

 and trained to the back wall of a greenhouse in the Royal Gardens of 

 Kew, which closely covers the wall of twelve feet high and thirty feet 

 long. It has been in beautiful bloom from March to the present time, 

 and will continue to the end of autumn. Its pretty foliage and flowers 

 have a nice appearance. It was planted in its present situation two 

 years back, and has a summer and winter pruning to keep it neat, and 

 form a dense cover to the wall. 



GoNGORA MACULATA, VAR. Jenishii. — A stoveorchid from Vene- 

 zuela, which has recently bloomed in Mr. Rucker's fine collection at 

 Wandsworth. The flowers are borne in drooping racemes, about a 

 dozen on each. A separate blossom is two inches across ; the sepals, 

 petals, and labellum, are narrow, yellow, beautifully mottled, and 

 blotched with a rich crimson and red. It is an interesting variety, 

 well deserving a place in any collection. (Figured in Bot. Mag.) 



NYMPaaEA MiCRANTHA. Small Water Lily. — The leaves are 

 about six inches across. The flowers are white with a slight tinge 

 of sulphur, each being three inches across. (Figured in Bot. Mug., 

 4535.) 



Oncidium sessile. — A stove orchid, from Santa Martha, in Peru, 

 sent by Mr. Purdie to the Syon House Gardens. The flowers are 

 borne in panicled racemes, each blossom is an inch and a-half across, 

 of a bright yellow, slightly spotted with brown, and the lip has a 

 blotch of the same colour on each side its centre. A neat species. 

 (Figured in Paxtoii's Flower Garden, 21.) 



PjEOnia Moutan, Salmonea. The Salmon-coloured. — The 

 Horticultural Society sent Mr. Fortune to China to collect plants, and 

 he had particular instructions to obtain plants of the fine Pseonies 

 which, as had been stated, existed in that country, some having flowers 



