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The flowers are a bright rosy- scarlet, with very pure distinct white tips. 

 It ouglit to be ill every collection. 



Epacris ruLCHELLA. — The plant is four feet high and as much 

 across, and its long- spikes of lovely white flowers, produced in vast 

 profusion, render it peculiarly iiandsome. 



Epacris laevigata. — The flowers are pure white, large, bell-shaped, 

 and borne in profusion. It is a very fine species, iiighly ornamental, 

 and ought to adorn every collection. 



ZicHYA viLLOSA. — Tlic plant densely covered a cylindrical wire 

 frame six feet high, and was in profuse bloom. Its lovely flowers of 

 brigiit scarlet wings, purple keel, and yellow eye, rendered it a very 

 interesiing and lmiid>ome ornament. Every collection ought to have 

 this species. 



Daviesia latifolia. — This is a neat and lovely plant, its pea-formed 

 deep golden daik-eyed flowers, produced in profusion, renders it a de- 

 sirable one for every greenhouse. 



Bossi/E viRGATA. — This is another neat and handsome pea-flowered 

 plant ; it blooms most abundantly. The flowers have bright yellow 

 wings with a ricii crimson keel, and are very beautiful. It ought to be 

 grown in every greenliouse. 



Epacris muckonata. — The flowers are pure white, and borne in 

 abundance. It is a very beautiful species. 



Epacris pulchella miniata. — A very neat variety ; the flowers 

 are white and pretty. It is an interesting plant. 



Epacris PALUDOSA. — The flowers are of a pure white, large, bell- 

 shaped, and produced very profusely. It is a very handsome species, 

 well deserving- to be in every greenhouse. 



CnoROZEMA ELEGANS. — The flowei's are large, and expand quite 

 flat, very rich orange-red wings with a deep purple keel, borne in great 

 profusion in fine iieads. The plant is of medium growth. It is far the 

 handsomest kind we iiave seen, and deserves to be in every greenhouse, 

 being so very ornamental. 



EuTAxiA MYHTiFOLiA. — A fine plant of it, in most profuse bloom, 

 and its neat pea-formed flowers in such abundance, rendered it highly 

 beautiful. 



CHINESE GARDENING. 



The Fa-tee Gardens, near Canton, have long been celebrated for their 

 beauty by English residents. Mr. Fortune, tlie collector sent out to 

 China by tiie Horticultural Society of London, in a very interesting 

 book which he lias just written,* speaks of tliein thus : — " Here, then, 

 I beheld a specimen of the far-famed system of Chinese gardening, 

 about which we have i-ead so much in European authors ; I will, there- 

 fore, describe them somewhat fully. Tiie plants are principally kept 

 in large pots, arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, 

 with the houses of tiie gardeners at the entrance, through which the 

 visitors pass to the gardens. There are about a dozen of these gardens, 

 more or less extensive, according- to the business or wealth of the pro- 



* " Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China." By Robert 

 Fortune. 8vo. Murray, Loudon, 1847. 



