PHARBITIS LIMBATA. 



MESSRS. ROLLTSON imported this very beautiful species from 

 Java. Vfe saw it in fine bloom in their collection of plants. It 

 is a half-hardy annual, requiring similar treatment to the common 

 Thunbergias. It is a charming object for the greenhouse in summer, 

 and no doubt it will flourish against a good-aspected wall, trellis, pillar, 

 or verandah during that season : Messrs. Rollison consider it to be 

 quite hardy enough. It grows very freely, blooms profusely, and bears 

 abundance of seed. It merits a place in every likely situation, and 

 from what we have seen of it, we believe it will thrive where the Major 

 Convolvulus will, and with the same treatment, after being turned out 

 into the open ground. The plants should be raised early in the season, 

 in pots, and then be turned out in May, where so required, or, being 

 duly repotted, be kept for ornamenting the greenhouse, &c, in summer. 

 Trained to wire frame-work, of any form, it will be a very interesting 

 object. 



TACSONIA MANICATA. 



This very superb-flowering plant was introduced into this country 

 by the Horticultural Society. The Society's collector of plants dis- 

 covered it growing in the hedges near the city of Loxa, in Peru. It 

 grows very freely, and is what is generally termed a climbing plant, 

 and when it lias room grows very extensively. The Horticultural 

 Society, with their usual liberality, distributed plants of it. A very 

 fine specimen of it is growing in the conservatory of A. F. Slade, Esq., 

 at Chisel burst, from whence we received it. This plant blooms most 

 abundantly, and the gardener informed us that nothing equals it in 

 brilliancy and beauty when in full bloom, it being literally loaded 

 with flowers. This fine plant deserves to be in every conservatory and 

 greenhouse, where it flourishes either to cover a trellis, wall, pillar, 



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