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F.flavescens. — The flower is of good size; tube and sepals pale 

 yellow ; corolla scarlet. The contrast is striking and handsome. A 

 free bloomer. 



Salpiglossis. — Numbers of plants in pots in the greenhouse and pit- 

 frames were in nice bloom, such as new yellow ; lilac, veined with 

 black ; bronze, beautifully veined with gold ; white, veined with black ; 

 white, with yellow veins; blue, with light veins. This pretty tribe 

 well merits a place as summer ornaments for the greenhouse. 



Nerium spectabilis de Neuilly. — The plant blooms profusely. The 

 flowers are single, of a pretty peach colour. 



N. formosum. — A profuse bloomer. The flowers are single, white, 

 and the centre streaked with red. 



N. Joan of Arc. — Flowers single, white, with a pale sulphur centre. 



N. lutescens. — Single ; petals narrow, pale yellow. 



Fuchsia corymbiflora alba. — Very large plants of this pretty variety 

 are in fine bloom. The tube and sepals white, with rich crimson 

 corolla. Some of the racemes were about two feet long. It requires 

 to be grown iu-doors, and where it can have partial shade, in order to 

 have the tube and sepals pure white. With such attention it will 

 bloom true. 



Bouvardia leiantha. — The flowers are of a bright scarlet, very 

 distinct from any other of the genus 



Microsperma Bartonoides. — A pretty new hardy annual, whose 

 flowers very much resemble those of the old dwarf-spreading St. John's 

 Wort of the gardens. Each flower is three inches across, bright yellow, 

 and, with its numerous thread-like filaments, has a very interesting ap- 

 pearance. The plant spreads freely, and blooms abundantly. 



Brachycoma iberidifolia. — The blue, lilac, and white flowering 

 varieties were in beautiful bloom in the greenhouse. Their pretty 

 Aster-like flowers, in such profusion, render them very ornamental. 

 Now is the time (September) to sow seed in pots, and raise young 

 plants before winter, in order to bloom fine next season. 



Justicia carnea. — This is one of the prettiest plants in the stove and 

 greenhouse. Its fine heads of beautiful flesh-coloured flowers are very 

 ornamental, bushy plants having a dozen or more heads of bloom. It 

 is a charming plant, blooming, too, almost all the year. 



Sanvatillia procumbens. — This low-spreading annual is employed 

 as an edging, a foot broad, round some circular beds of other flowers. 

 It blooms very freely ; each blossom an inch and a-half across, yellow, 

 with a black disk. It is very neat and pretty, growing a few inches 

 high, and blooms all the summer. It would do well around a raised 

 bed, or to hang over the edge of a vase. 



Impatiens pulcherrimus. — The flowers are of a similar form to Bal- 

 samita latifolia, an inch and a-half across, lilac, with a rosy-purple 

 centre. The plant is more robust than this species ; grows two to 

 three feet high. It is in stove ; but no doubt would do equally well in 

 summer in the greenhouse. It is very pretty. 



(Enothera prostrata^ — This is a pretty plant for an edging to a bed 

 of other flowers. It grows four to six inches high, and blooms very 

 freely ; its pretty yellow flowers in abundance render it very showy. It 

 blooms all the summer season. I 



