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reddish-purple, similar in size to the old species, D. indica. It is well 

 worth growing. 



Epacrises. — E. autumnalis ; vivid crimson, fine. E. magnifica; 

 bright rosy-pink. E. campanulata alba; pure white bells, very neat. 

 E. hyacinthiflora ; rose, very pretty. E. grandiflora ; an old but fine 

 species ; the bushy plant is four feet high, and as much across, and 

 will be in profuse bloom for many months. E. nivea; white, bell- 

 shaped, pretty. E. microphylla ; white, in long spikes ; very neat. 



Ericas. — E. vernix coccinea; globe-shaped, of a bright orange- 

 scarlet, blooms freely, very pretty! E. cerinthoides major ; flowers in 

 terminal heads, tube an inch and a half long, of a rich scarlet colour. 

 By stopping the shoots, laterals are produced, and the plant forms a 

 pretty bush ; without this attention, it usually grows naked. E. jiel- 

 lucida ; tube one inch, rose and white. E. gracilis vernalis ; small 

 globe, purple, in vast profusion, neat and pretty. E. colorans ; white 

 and rose, tube one inch, profuse. E. blanda ; flesh and purple, tube 

 one inch. E. vernix; orange, with green tip, globular, very pretty. 

 E. cerinthoides alba; white, with a tinge of rose ; when advanced, tube 

 nearly an inch long ; very pretty. E. refulgens ; tube one inch, 

 orange, with green tip ; pretty. 



Ledcopogon lanceolatum. — The foliage is small, very neat, as is 

 the habit of the upright-growing shrubby plant. The flowers are small, 

 but produced in vast profusion, in very long spikes, renders it a charm- 

 ing object. It deserves to be in every greenhouse. 



Luculia gratissima. — A tall plant in a tub had borne sixty-five 

 heads of flowers, but was now declining. Their beauty and fragrance 

 entitle them to a place in every greenhouse. 



Murattia (Poeygala of some) stipulacea. — The foliage is of 

 the small, stiff class, and the flowers are small, but produced nume- 

 rously, in long spikes, of a bright violet colour. It is a beautiful 

 species, and deserves to be in every greenhouse. 



Selago distans. — A pretty, fine-leaved, shrubby plant, which 

 blooms in profusion. The flowers are small, but are numerously borne 

 in long spikes. Its blooming so freely during winter, too, renders it 

 increasingly valuable and interesting. 



A quantity of beautiful Cinerarias were beginning to bloom, and 

 a fine show will, no doubt, be kept up till midsummer, or later. 



In the Stove. 



Many plants of Gesnera Herbertii and zebrina were in splendid 

 bloom ; flowering spikes four feet high. One pot of the former had 

 eight fine spikes. Highly ornamental. 



Achimenes picta. — Numerous pots and tubs of this beautiful species 

 in fine bloom. One had nine flowering stems, three feet high. These 

 and the Gesneras are grown in boxes, or pans, about eight inches deep 

 and eighteen across, in loam, rotten leaf-mould, and a liberal sprinkling 

 of small bits of charcoal. 



