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sought after and purchased at high prices. This success induced 

 numerous growers to commence raising seedlings, and each following 

 season, from that time, improved varieties have come forth. The skill 

 of hybridizers has succeeded in obtaining large-sized flowers, having 

 pure white tube and sepals, with crimson, rose, blue, and lilac corolla. 

 The Jinest of this section is the one we now figure, Prince Arthur. 

 It grows freely, blooms abundantly, and its large-sized beautiful flowers 

 have a striking appearance. It highly merits a place in every collec- 

 tion of Fuchsias. 



The globe-flowered section is a very interesting one, and the variety 

 we now figure, Globosa magnifica, is far superior to any other we 

 have seen. The blossoms are very large, and when fully blown, the 

 rich-coloured corolla is well exposed to view. The plant is of good 

 strong habit and blooms very freely. It grows erect two or three feet 

 high in one season, and is an admirable variety for a flower-bed, vase, 

 or pot culture. It has a nice effect when this variety is grown in the 

 middle portion of a bed, and then surrounded with dwarf-growing 

 kinds, the contrast being very pretty. It merits a place in every 

 collection. 



NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Aerides roseum. — A fine orchid, producing a raceme of rosy-pink 

 flowers, about a foot long ; leaves light-green, thick and fleshy, nine 

 inches long. The specimen from which the figure was taken is in the 

 splendid collection of Messrs. Loddiges. (Figured in Paxlon's Flower 

 Garden, plate 60.) 



Browallia Jamesonii. — This plant (which we figured a short 

 time back), although it is generally considered a shy bloomer, Hector 

 Munro, Esq., of Druid's Stoke, near Bristol, has succeeded in flower- 

 ing profusely in the greenhouse last June. In the summer season it 

 grows freely against a south wall, but in winter it requires a warm 

 greenhouse or moderate stove. (Figured in Sot. Mag., 4605.) 



Bkownsa ariza. — A splendid stove-plant, is a native of the pro- 

 vince of Bogota, in South America, from whence it was sent by 

 Mr. Hartweg. It forms a tree of thirty to forty feet in height. The 

 flowers are of a clear red, each about an inch and a half across, some- 

 what resembling in shape the Pyrus Japonica ; they are produced in 

 large drooping heads, which have a noble appearance. It requires a 

 moist stove and is best propagated by the seeds. (Figured in Paxton's 

 Flower Garden, plate 59.) 



Camptosema rubicundum. — A fine stove-climber, with racemes of 

 scarlet-red flowers, much like a Laburnum in shape ; each flower is 

 about an inch long, and the raceme about a foot in length. It is a 

 native of South Brazil, from whence it was received at the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens at Kew, where it has lately flowered in the Palm 

 stove. It has been for a long time cultivated in Germany, under the 

 name of Kennedya splendens. (Figured in JBot. Mag., 4608.) 



