2G8 ON THE I.OVE of flowebs. 



sliaped, rather short and spreading-, about three-quarters of an inch 

 across, a greenish-yellow colour. It is in Messrs, Veitchs' collection. 

 (Figured in Bot. Reg., 54.) 



ISOPOGON SrH.i:ROCEPHALUS RoUND-HEADED. 



Proteacea. Tetandria Monogynia, 

 A native of the Swan River colony. It is a free-growing green- 

 house shrub. The heads of the flowers are terminal, yellow. It blooms 

 early in the spring. Eacli head of flowers is about an inch and a half 

 in diameter. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4332.) 



Rises Menziesii — Menzies' Gooseberry. 



A liardy shrub from California. It grows from four to six feet 

 high, in any common garden soil. The drooping racemes have from 

 one to three flowers in eacli ; they are of a fine crimson colour. A 

 single flower is about half an inch across. The petals recurve very 

 similar to some of the Clematis. 



Sdccolobium miniatum — Orange-red. 



OrchidecB. Gynandria Monandria. 

 A native of Java, imported by Messrs. Veitch. Tlie flowers are 

 produced in spreading racemes, about ten blossoms in each, of a pretty 

 orange and red. A single flower is about three quarters of an inch 

 across. (Figured in Bot. Reg., 58.) 



SiPHOCAMPYLUS GLANDULOSA ThE GlANULAR. 



A native of Bogota. Seeds of it were sent by Mr. Purdie to the 

 Royal Gardens of Kew. It requires the same kind of treatment as the 

 other species, growing and blooming freely in the greenhouse all the 

 summer season. Each flo\<er is about two inclies long, of a beautiful 

 purple colour. It is a very liandsome species, and well merits a place 

 in every greenhouse. "We find it easily cultivated as a dwarf plant by 

 stopping the leads, and thus bloomed it is particularly neat. (Figured 

 in Bot. Mag., 4331.) 



ON THE LOVE OF FLOWERS. 



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The climate of this country is not, perhaps, the most favourable for 

 the production of flowers ; yet we have a power of enjoying those we 

 have, which inhabitants of warmer climates often have not. In the 

 Ecist, it is true, the country is adorned with the most magnificent flowers, 

 springing up spontaneously and abundantly ; whole fields are brilliant 

 with tulips, anemonles, and roses ; but the bright sun, which gives them 

 life and beauty, forbids man to walk abroad during many hours in the 

 day, from its insufferable heat. Persia is, perhaps, supereminently the 

 country of flowers, of tlie rose in particular. Japan, too, has magnifi- 

 cent flowers ; which, to be able to enjoy, the people have a quantity of 

 them within doors. The Japanese are passionately fond of flowers, and 

 frequently name their women from them. In Constantinople they are 



