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P. Devoniensis, or Beaute Supreme. — Flowers large, of a rich 

 purple-crimson. The plant is a compact grower, blooms profusely, 

 and, being large, is exceedingly showy. Beds of it have a very showy 

 appearance. 



Lobelia erincs-maxima. — This is one of the prostrate section, a 

 compact grower, and a most profuse bloomer. The flowers are of a 

 rich deep blue, with a white eye ; and a bed of it, compactly filled, has 

 a very striking appearance. 



L. compacta. — This is of the upright-growing section, dwarf, and 

 of bushy habit. The flowers are of a beautiful light blue. A very 

 desirable plant. 



Fancy Pelargoniums. — Small beds of Queen Victoria and Lady 

 Flora Hastings have a pretty effect. White grounds, the former 

 coloured with rosy-purple, and the latter with lilac-purple upper petals. 



Pentstemon, New Species, from the Texas. — This very handsome 

 species is in bloom in the open bed in the Royal Gardens, Kew. It 

 has the habit of what are now denominated the Chelone section. The 

 floral spikes are about a yard high, two feet of which is adorned libe- 

 rally with its pretty flowers. Each blossom has a rather wide tube, 

 three-quarters of an inch long. The end (properly limb) is three- 

 quarters of an inch across, slightly five-parted. The outside of the 

 flower is scarlet, and the inner part a deep rose colour. It is a very 

 strikingly distinct and beautiful species. 



Pentstemon, New Species from California. — Also in the open bed. 

 in the Royal Gardens of Kew. The flower-stems are about two feet 

 high. The blossoms are rose-coloured in their early stage, but become 

 a fine blue afterwards. Each blossom (tubular) is two inches long. It 

 is a very handsome addition to this fine flowering tribe of plants. Both 

 the above ought to have a place in every flower-garden. 



Pentstemon gigantea elegans. — A large circular bed of this 

 very rich crimson flowering variety was margined with a broad belt of 

 the blue Salvia patens. It produced a very singularly showy effect, 

 the contrast being striking. 



P. Salterii. — White, edged with bright pink, very pretty- 



Abelia floribukda (Vessalia floribunda). — In the greenhouse, a 

 plant about three feet high, is in profuse bloom. Its lovely rose- 

 coloured trumpet-shaped flowers, each two inches long, and borne in 

 clusters, renders it deserving a place in every greenhouse. It can be 

 obtained cheap. It does well trained to a wire frame-work. 



Potentilla Antwerpensis. — It is a dwarf grower. The flowers 

 are semi-double, and an orange colour. Being somewhat double, the 

 blossoms do not, like the single ones, close in the evening. 



P. grandis. — The flowers are as large as a half-crown, firm petals, 

 fine circular shape, and of a rich deep yellow colour. The plant grows 



