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into good-sized well-ripened specimens for turning out next spring. 

 The plant grows freely, and is easily preserved through winter in a 

 cool frame or in the greenhouse. Every garden, greenhouse, and room- 

 window ought to be adorned with it. 



Ceanothus cuneatus. — An evergreen shrubby plant from Cali- 

 fornia. The flowers are produced in umbels, white ; it does not blossom 

 as freely as our older imported species, C. uzureus and others. 



Collinsea multicolor (Many-coloured). — Messrs. Veitch, of 

 Exeter, have introduced this beautiful annual from California. Like 

 C. bicolor, it grows from one foot to half a yard high, and produces its 

 gay flowers in vast profusion. It is much handsomer than the latter- 

 named species, on account of the rich purple tint of its long floral leaves, 

 and the pretty marking of the flowers. The middle boat-shaped lobe 

 of the lower lip is a rich crimson, lower lip lilac, and upper lip lilac 

 with a white spot in the middle, and beautifully spotted with blood 

 colour. Each blossom is an inch across. It merits a place in every 

 flower-garden. (Figured in Paxton , s Flower Garden.) 



Chrysobactron Hooker ir. — An Asphodelus- looking plant, which 

 is a native of New Zealand, where it grows in large clumps in boggy 

 places, and is said to cover the plain with a sheet of yellow when in 

 bloom. The flower scape rises two to three feet high, bearing at the 

 top a loose raceme (several inches long) of golden-yellow flowers. 

 Each blossom (six petals) is about three parts of an inch across. It 

 has been kept in winter in a cool frame in the Royal Gardens of Kew, 

 where it has recently bloomed. (Figured in Pot. Mag., 4602.) 



Dendrobium clavatum. — Thomas Denne, Esq., of Hythe, in 

 Kent, recently obtained this very handsome flowering species from 

 Assam, and it bloomed in the stove the present summer. The flowers 

 are borne in close heads of five in each, and each blossom is about two 

 inches across when expanded, of a rich orange-yellow colour, with a 

 double blotch of deep brown. It is a valuable acquisition, and deserves 

 a place in every collection. 



Dendrobium albosanguineum. — A stove Orchidsea, which has 

 been introduced into this country by Messrs. Veitch. Their collector, 

 Mr. Lobb, found it in open forests near the Atran River, in Moulmein. 

 The flowers are produced in terminal spikes, of five or six in each 

 raceme. A separate blossom is about three inches across. The ground 

 is a creamy-white, with two large blood-coloured spots at the ba*e of 

 the petals. The plant is stout, erect growing, and showy when in 

 bloom. (Figured in Paxtous Flower Garden.) 



Erysimum Arkansanum. — This new species is in the Horticultural 

 Society's garden, and it is stated to grow three feet high, and to be 

 more beautiful than the fine orange-flowered E. Peroffskianum. 



Fuchsia Expansion. — Tube and petals white, and corolla a bright 

 rose colour, thick and stout, and an abundant bloomer. 



F. globosa magnifica. — Sepals very broad and of a rich crimson ; 

 corolla purple, shaded with rose up the middle. Each blossom is an 



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