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NOTICES OF NEW OR RAKE PLAXTS. 



"Wherever there is room, the above fifty species and varieties should all be grown. 

 "We have selected none that are not generally kept by all seedsmen. The dwarfest 

 should be sown at the edge of the borders, the others at a distance varying with 

 their height. Unless the season should be very mild, it will not be advisable to sow 

 the seeds before the beginning of March ; and those marked f will be safer if deferred 

 till the end of March, unless they can be protected by a hand-light. Half-hardy 

 annuals requiring a hot-bed, will be noticed in our next. 



NOTICES OF NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Calceolaria chelidonioides. ( Scrophulariacece) — A very pretty half-hardy annual from Peru, 

 introduced to this country by Isaac Anderson, Esq. of Edinburgh. Most of our readers are 

 acquainted 'with the old pinnata, which is, we believe, the only other annual species besides the 

 C. chelidonioides. This latter is a dwarf plant, of decumbent branching habit, clothed with viscid 

 hairs, leaves pinnated, with lanceolate incised divisions. Flowers in pairs, from the axils of every 

 one of the upper leaves, on slender stiff stalks. The corolla is comparatively small, but of a brilliant 

 pure yellow. Its treatment is that of other half-hardy annuals, but when planted out, it requires 

 rather a moist situation, and docs best in peat. It flowers abundantly during the summer and 

 autumn, and would form a pretty contrast to the dwarf blue Lobelias. (Journal of Sort. Soc. Vol. 

 7. Part. 4. J 



