

JUNE, 1851. 



OILILMgTK^TQOKaga 



CANTUA DEPENDENS. 



THIS most beautiful flowering hardy greenhouse shrub is a native of 

 the Peruvian mountains, plants of which we received from Mr. 

 Van Houtte. It forms a neat branching shrub, growing very freely 

 in a compost of equal parts of sandy-peat, leaf-mould, and good loam. 

 It appears to grow so readily that it is likely to flourish well during 

 summer in the open border, similar to the Fuchsia. Messrs. Veitcii 

 have had it stand out of doors for two winters, with a slight protection. 

 They exhibited a beautiful flowering specimen at the Horticultural 

 Society's exhibition on the 3rd of May. We need not say much to 

 recommend to our readers this very elegant flowering plant ; it ought 

 to be in every greenhouse and flower-garden. The Indians adorn their 

 chambers on feast-days with these pre-eminently beautiful blossoms, 

 and give the plant the name of Magic Tree. 



NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Acacia diffusa. — This species is somewhat of a trailing habit, but 

 with attention easily forms a bush. The leaves are about an inch 

 long, very narrow ; the flowers are in large balls, of a bright yellow 

 colour, and it blooms profusely in winter. 



Acacia oxycedrus. — The leaves are narrow, about an inch long; 

 the flowers are borne in spikes, of a rich yellow colour, and bloom in 

 winter. 



Acacia Riceana. — A plant of this handsome species is now in the 

 large conservatory of the Horticultural Society, and is eight yards 

 high, but we have seen small bushes of it, about three to four feet high, 

 in profuse bloom. The leaves are narrow, about an inch long; the 

 flowers are round, of a pretty pale yellow. 



Vol. xix. No. 54.—N.S. M 



