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Alonsoa incisi folia. — A -well known half-hardy herbaceous plant, and a very free bloomer ; flowers 

 orange scarlet, height one to one-and-a-half feet ; increased readily by cuttings or seeds ; the last 

 sown early flower the same season. 



Ahtrcemeria. — This is a beautiful genus of plants, the most useful and generally procurable 

 varieties are those known as Van Houttes ; they vary considerably in tint, but are mostly of an 

 orange yellow colour ; are quite hardy, and grow two to three feet high ; increased by division of the 

 tubers, and by seeds ; rich sandy loam. See a figure in the March number of our first volume. 



Antirrhinums. — These we need only name, the varieties are endless, but none are more striking 

 than the beautiful A. Jlendcrsonii, figured in our September number, which will be within the 

 reach of most amateurs this season. 



Anagallis. — Everybody knows the Pimpernels ; they are very useful trailing plants, with blue or 

 red flowers ; of the latter, rubra grandiflora (Parksii) is the best, and of the former, Phillipsii, 

 Brewerii, and caridea grandiflora. Seeds or cuttings ; ordinary soil. 



Armeria. — These are not unfrequently classed with the Statices, but are distinguished by their 

 flowers being collected into globular heads. The A. eephalotes, alias A. pseudo-armeria, is a 

 beautiful hardy plant, with pink flowers, and is easily raised from seed, which often ripens, and is, 

 at any rate, always to be had of the Seedsmen. It will do in any ordinary soil, but likes a rich, 

 free loam. It does not bear transplanting, and the seedlings, raised on a window or in a gentle 

 heat, must, when an inch or two high, be planted at once where they are to remain. A . plantaginea, 

 another fine species, has white flowers. This may be had of Messrs. Low and Co. of Clapton 

 Nursery. 



Bouvardias. — These are, in our opinion, among the most desirable of summer plants, from their 

 long continued habit of flowering ; splendens and aurantiaea, both with orange-scarlet flowers, are 

 two of the best, and where these cannot be procured, the old triphylla may be used. They do best 

 in peat ; or sandy loam and leaf mould, and grow from one to two feet or more high. Increased 

 by cuttings of young shoots, and also by cuttings of the roots. 



Cwlestina agcratoides. — This is best known as an Ageratum, from which it can hardly be distin- 

 guished, except that the latter are all annual ; this is a half-hardy perennial, with heads of lavender- 

 coloured flowers pleasantly scented ; one of the best plants of a neutral tint, very prolific of flowers, 

 and increased with the greatest ease by cuttings. 



Calceolarias, shrubby. — The habit and treatment of these is well-known. They like cool and 

 damp situations; increased by cuttings and slips in autumn : the following are good and cheap : — 

 Albiflora, pure white; amplexieaulis, lemon, fine ; sulphurea splendens, one of the very best yellows ; 

 Shanldcyana, large crimson-brown, good ; Sultan, same colour, very fine ; Kentish Hero, rich 

 brown, an old variety, but an excellent bedder. A Calceolaria, name at present unknown, has stood 

 the late severe weather without any protection, in a garden near our own. 



Campanulas. — Carpatica is much praised by some, but the white variety is more interesting; they 

 arc both quite dwarf, hardy, and flower the first year from seeds. Kobilis and N. alba are good 

 hardy plants, the first with blueish purple flowers. C'oronata, figured in our number for September 

 last, is a first-rate hardy plant for the border, but does not keep in bloom sufficiently long for 

 bedding. C. Vidallii is also a fine plant, but is not quite hardy; flowers cream-coloured. C. 

 Persiei/olia and its white and double varieties, arc good plants ; and there is a very common species. 

 rhomboidea, also, with white double flowers. 



Convolculi'* Sibthorpii. —This is a beautiful hardy perennial twiner, of rather dwarf growth, with 

 rose-coloured flowers and handsome foliage. It is not much known, but should be in every garden ; 

 it i> sometimes sold as C. Italious, and is very nearly allied to C. Altlmoidcs, which is quite equal to it, 

 and more common ; the latter is also quite hardy in dry soils, or with the protection of a few leaves. 



