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influence of heavy rains about the middle of September ; after which period, it should 

 receive but moderate supplies of water. In winter, it will require all the air and 

 light that can be given it, and should be kept in a cool apartment up to the month of 

 February, after which a warmer room will hasten the development of its beautiful 

 flowerheads. In case of very severe weather, measures must be taken to secure, 

 it from frost. 



We have introduced this species to the notice of our readers, not only for its 

 great intrinsic merits, but also as the representative of a large genus of plants, 

 which, if we except the common A. armata, are rarely seen in cultivation among 

 that class of amateur horticulturists to which we more especially address ourselves. 

 This is greatly to be regretted, as they are as easily managed as the plants more 

 commonly grown upon the window ; and flowering, as most of them do, in earty 

 spring, when but few other plants are in blossom, it might have been supposed that 

 they would have been eagerly sought after. 



There are many other mimosa-leaved species fully equal in most points to the 

 J. grandis; among which may be mentioned pulchella, deallata, discolor, pubescens, 

 and spectabilis ; the last named being, perhaps, even more desirable than grandis. 

 One of the species above cited, pulchella, is sometimes sold for grandis, which it 

 resembles, differing chiefly in its longer spine and fewer leaflets. 



The economical uses and products of the various species of Acacia, are too numerous 

 and important to be alluded to in the present notice ; we reserve them for a future 

 occasion. 



RHODODENDRON LANATUM. 



Woolly Siklim Rhododendron. 



Linnean Class — Decandria. Order — Moxogyxia. Natural Order — Ericace.v.. 



On the north-eastern frontier of the immense continent of India, between the states 

 of Nepaul and Bhotan, lies the small territory of Sikkim, governed by a native 

 prince, but under the protection of the East India Company. Until within the last 

 few years, the very existence of this obscure state was, we suspect, unknown to 

 the majority of the English public ; but from being the most neglected, it now bids 

 fair to become one of the best known of the principalities composing the vast 

 empire of Hindostan. The country is, of course, wholly mountainous, forming a 





