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Delphinium "Wheelerii. — A variety of D. speciosum, with a 

 dense spike of bright-blue flowers, about a foot long, each flower an 

 inch across. It was raised from seed saved from D. speciosum, by 

 Mr. Wheeler, of Warminster ; it will be an acquisition to the flower- 

 garden. (Figured in Mag. of Botany.) 



EriDENDRUM verrucosum. — This beautiful orchid was introduced 

 from Mexico by Messrs. Loddiges, and a fine specimen of it flowered 

 in July last, at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew ; each flower is 

 about four inches across, sepals and petals rosy-lilac, narrow. Lip of 

 the same colour, with a yellow stripe up the centre. (Fig. in Sot. 

 Mag., 4606.) 



Fuchsia, Great Western. — An hybrid, raised between F.fulgens 

 and F. Beauty of Leeds. It is a pale-flowered one, of very large size. 

 It was raised by Mr. Patterson, gardener to Baroness Wenman, of 

 Thame Park. 



F. Unique. — Tube and sepals a deep red. Corolla a deep violet- 

 purple. Flower two and a-half inches long and shows the corolla 

 well. Very fine. 



F. Ignea. — Tube and sepals a bright red, and corolla a violet- 

 purple. Flower two and a half inches long, showing the corolla well. 

 Very fine. 



F. Splendida. — Tube and sepals bright-red. Corolla bright-blue. 

 Tube short. Reflexes well, an inch and a-half across. Very pretty. 



F. Multiplex. — Tube and sepals bright-crimson, well reflexed. 

 Corolla deep-purple and very double, resembling a double-violet. 



The above have rich dark-coloured corollas, contrasting very dis- 

 tinctly with the tube and sepals. They exhibit the corolla to view 

 much better than the F. Corallina, and merit a place in every 

 collection. 



F. seruattifolia multiflora. — The Iiandsome flowering species 

 most of our readers know, the present variety is a good acquisition. 

 Tiie flowers are a little less than the former, the tube two inches long, 

 of a pretty rosy-lilac colour, and the corolla a light orange. The plant 

 blooms much more freely than the original species. It merits a place 

 in every collection. Both kinds bloom during autumn and winter, and 

 form handsome ornaments for the greenhouse or sitting-room. They 

 blossom, too, at any other part of the year, when potted and otherwise 

 treated to promote it at various times. 



Galeandra Devoniana. — One of the most rare and finest of the 

 South American orchids. It was first discovered by Schomburgk, on 

 the river Rio Negro, and lately Mr. Spruce met with it in the same 

 place, and he forwarded a Ward's case to the Royal Botanic Gardens 

 at Kew, which contained flowering specimens. It grows five to six 

 feet high, and in patches from ten to twelve feet round. The flowers 

 arc produced in a tall stem, each blossom about four inches across; 

 sepals and petals purple and green ; lips nearly white, tipped and varied 

 with purple. (Figured in But, Mag., 4610.) 



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