4 NOTES ON NEW OR RARE TLANTS. 



extensive collection, which includes all the best varieties. Those we 

 now figure are some which he has selected and figured in his " Flora 

 of the C4ardens of* Europe." We need not say they are beautiful, and 

 deserving a place in every garden ; many of them are like miniature 

 Dahlia flowers, or Ranunculus blooms. They are easily cultivated, 

 flourishing in a good loamy soil, and readily increased by division. 

 They succeed well in pots ; and, by keeping a stock potted off at 

 various periods of the year, a succession of bloom may be had all the 

 year round, and patches may be plunged in the flower-beds or borders, 

 or otherwise placed as lovely ornaments. We hail with pleasure the 

 appearance of these new varieties, and suggest to our readers in this 

 country that attempts to raise improved kinds will afford them delight, 

 and the results will amply repay for their care. We anticipate the 

 appearance of still greater beauties, and that this pretty flower will 

 take its position at our floral exhibitions. Wordsworth, the late Poet 

 Laureate, writing upon it, prophetic says — 



" Child of the year ! that round dost run 

 Thy course, bold lover of the sun, 

 And cheerful when the day's begun 



As morning leveret : 

 Thy long-lost praise thou shall regain, 

 Dear shalt thou be to future men 

 As in old time ; — thou, not in vain, 

 Art Nature's favourite." 



(We always feel gratified in attempts to encourage our young friends 

 in the cultivation of flowers, and have therefore extended our remarks 

 on this infantile pet flower.) 



NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Achimenes Bodneri. — A continental variety ; dwarf, and blooms 

 freely. Each blossom is about an inch across, of a lilac-purple, witli 

 a small yellow eye. Pretty. 



Achimenes Baumanni. — Another continental variety; dwarf, free 

 bloomer. Each flower an inch across, of a bright rosy-purple colour, 

 and a small yellow eye. 



Barbacenia Rogierii. — A plant of the Day Lily order, which 

 has recently been obtained from Mr. Van Houtte by some of the 

 nurserymen in England. It requires to be cultivated in the stove. 

 The flower-stems rise a foot high, each having but one blossom. The 

 tube-formed portion is an inch long, the lower half greenish-yellow, 

 and the other pale-purple ; but the five large-lobed end divisions, 

 properly called the segments of the limb, are of a rich velvet-like 

 purple. Each flower is three inches across. It is a beautiful flower- 

 ing plant. (Figured in Mag. of Botany.) 



Bertolinia maculata. Spotted-leaved (Syn., Eriocnema 

 ameum). — A native of Brazil, which has bloomed in the stove at the 



