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severe frost during their period of blooming, deserve a slight protection at night, 

 by which means their beauty will be considerably prolonged. In purchasing these 

 plants, those struck from cuttings the previous summer should be selected in 

 preference ; for small specimens are not to be depended on, and will, at any rate, 

 produce but few flowers. 



Our figures are : 1. Eoi de Lilliput, white; 2. Le Jongleur, yellow; 3. Madame 

 Le Michez, lilac ; 4. Modele', white ; and we have no doubt that all of them may 

 be obtained at every nursery in the kingdom. 



Among the other varieties which are deserving of cultivation, may be 

 mentioned the following : — Sacramento, bright yellow ; D*or, golden yellow ; 

 Bizarre, straw yellow ; Solfaterre, clear primrose ; Surprise, white, tipped with 

 lilac or rose ; Argentine, silvery white ; La Fiancee, pure white ; Poulidetto, rosy 

 lilac, good shape and habit ; Asmodee, copper colour, yellow centre ; Criterion, 

 striped carmine and yellow ; Gil Bias, carmine ; Madame de Mirbel, yellow, edged 

 with carmine. The flowers of these vary in their size, a few of them being nearly as 

 large as those of the older varieties ; but the greater number of them are from 

 three-quarters to one and half inches in diameter. 



MITRARIA COCCI NE A. 



Scarlet Mitraria. 

 Linnean Class — Didynamia. Order — Angiosperma. Natural Order — Gesneuace.u. 



The plants of the order Gesneracce are, in general, so remarkable for their beauty, 

 that it has often been a matter of regret that they should require, for their 

 successful cultivation, the temperature of the stove, at least during the earlier 

 stages of their growth. "We are aware that the Achimenes, Gloxinia, and even the 

 Gesnera itself, are, when in flower, often purchased for window ornaments ; but we 

 doubt whether a creditable specimen of these plants could be shown, which had not 

 been assisted in its growth by a considerable amount of bottom heat, either in a 

 good forcing frame or warm green-house. 



Of the novelties recently introduced from Chili and its dependencies, few, 

 therefore, are likely to create a greater sensation among out-door cultivators 

 than the Mitraria coccinea, which has the merit of being the only hardy plant of 

 the order yet discovered. We do not, however, use the term hardy in its most 



