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&c, and, with proper management, a suitable wire-work frame. It is 

 considered to be the finest greenhouse climber, and the striking account 

 given us by the excellent gardener at Mr. Slade's is confirmatory of 

 the fact. This species is easily cultivated, requiring plenty of root- 

 room. A compost of equal parts of turfy-loam and peat soil, with a 

 liberal drainage, suits well. When it grows vigorously, the branches 

 must be trained horizontally in proportion, to check the growth. If 

 the shoots be very numerous, some of them must be cut away. Due 

 care to training neatly will be requisite. Its splendid display most 

 amply repays for every attention. Grown in contrast with the Tacsonia 

 princeps, grandis, mollissima, and pinnatistipula, would produce an 

 interesting si° - ht. 



NOTES ON NEW OR BARE PLANTS. 



Deutzia gracilis. Slender. — A native of Japan, growing natu- 

 rally two yards high, its branches being long and flexible. The leaves 

 are small, oval, tapering to a point. The main branches are covered 

 with small side branches, each having a terminal raceme of graceful 

 white flowers. A blossom is about half an inch across. This charming 

 species is in the establishment of Mr. Baumann, of Ghent. There is a 

 plant in our own country called D. gracilis, but its true name is 

 Callicarp Murasaki. The true species is only to be had (now) of 

 Mr. Baumann. It deserves to be in every shrubbery. 



Dombeya viburniflora. — It is a native of the Comerin Islands, 

 near Madagascar, where it forms a fine tree. One plant of it is in the 

 stove at Kew, which is five yards high, and has a large bushy head. 

 The leaves are large, heart-shaped, three lobed. The flowers are borne 

 in terminal corymbous heads, five inches across. Each blossom is five- 

 petalled, an inch across, white. (Figured in JBot. Mag., 4568.) 



Echinopsis campylacantha (Syn. Cereus leucanthus). — Dis- 

 covered at the foot of the Andes mountains. Several plants, about a 

 foot high, are in the Cactus stove at the Royal Gardens of Kew. The 

 form is nearly globose. The spines are about three inches long, curving 

 inwards. The flowers are produced at the summit, each about six 

 inches long and three across, of a pale rose colour. (Figured in Hot. 

 Mag., 4567.) 



Fuchsias. — Smith's Seddonii : flower of medium size ; tube and 

 sepals rosy-flesh colour, slightly tipped with green ; corolla violet- 

 purple. Banks' Voltigeur : tube and sepals red, corolla purple ; the 

 sepals curve back much, very like Scarletina reflexa. Banks' Ex- 

 pansion: tube and sepals white, tinged slightly with rose; corolla rosy- 

 red ; flower stout, medium size, the sepals spreading out horizontally. 

 (Figured in Magazine of Botany .) 



Medinilla Javanensis. — From Java. A stove shrub, of the 

 Melastomaceae order. The flowers are borne in short terminal panicles. 

 Each blossom is nearly an inch across, of a pale flesh colour, and the 



