226 KOTES ON NEW OK RARE PLANTS. 



Favonius, Honora, and Gulielma, seedlings of 1846, by Mr. Beck, 

 of good qualitj', but the first named is the best ; it has rosy-crinisou 

 upper petals, with dark spot on each ; lower petals salmon, with a 

 deeper spot on each. 



Ann (Beck's), upper petals rose, with large dark spot ; lower ones 

 rose, light centre ; good. 



Aurora (Beck's), upper petals dark, lower ones rosy-crimson; good. 



Acheron ( Beck's), a rosy-crimson ; good. 



Grandis (Miller's), a good bright rose. 



Rosa (Miller's), a beautiful rose-coloured flower. 



CUPHEA rLATTCENTKA AND CuFHEA STRIGULOSA. 



The former of these neat and beautiful flowering plants is shrubby, 

 with foliage much like a Bouvardia triphylla, and the trumpet-shaped 

 flowers in form similar to those of the Bouvardia, of a brilliant orange- 

 scarlet, tipped with dark outside the revolving mouth of tlie tube, and 

 inside of the same pure white ; the contrast in the colours is very 

 strikingly pretty. A separate blossom is an inch long, or, in some 

 cases, a little more. They are produced in abundance, singly, from 

 the axils of the leaves. 



Tlie other species is also shrubby, of a similar form of foliage, and 

 the flowers are about the same size ; they are produced in one-sided 

 long racemes, hanging in vast profusion, in a drooping manner. Tliey 

 are of a pale orange on the upper side of the tube, and yellow under- 

 neath ; the mouth is tipped with bright green. Both kinds flower 

 abundantly, and are most interesting plants for the open borders in 

 summer, each specially useful for an entire bed. The plants are easily 

 propagated, and readily formed to any desired size for pots or beds, 

 and flourish admirably alike in the stove, greenhouse, or open air, and 

 in-doors may be kept in bloom the entire year. They form handsome 

 plants for the edging of a bed, as they can be kept, at a few inches 

 liio-h, in profuse bloom. Plants for out of doors should be excited 

 in-doors for a few weeks before turning out, and the last ten days or a 

 fortnight be gradually inured, so that a sudden exposure out of doors 

 in May be avoided. Good-sized bushy plants should be prepared to 

 turn out, and the show will amply repay for any attention, and continue 

 to bloom till destroyed by frost. The plants thus turned out can be 

 very safely taken up at the approach of winter, re-potted, and then be 

 placed in the stove, greenhouse, or sitting-room, and by due attention 

 will display their pretty blooms the entire winter and spring. We 

 have had the plants in bloom in the open beds, &c., for a length of 

 time this season, and in-doors ever since the early part of 1846. It 

 flourishes in pots in a compost formed of equal portions of loam and 

 sandy peat, along with about a quarter of leaf soil and bits of charcoal. 

 Cuttings strike readily ; and for next season's out-door bedding, should 

 be provided the present autumn. 



TORENIA ASIATICA. 



We planted out a bed in the open air of this very beautiful flowering 

 plant, which has grown admirably and bloomed most charmingly. 



