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ters, at Messrs. Loddiges's, Hackney, near London. The young leaves are 

 at first purplish underneath ; they then become milk white, and afterwards, 

 when quite hardened, change to a kind of tan colour. It bloomed in April, 

 kept in a cool frame. Flowers: pale rosy purple and white. It increases by 

 layers as well as cuttings. Soil, loam and peat. Few plants are so magni- 

 ficent as the Rhododendrons; few also are so widely diti'used over the Globe, 

 though none have yet been found south of the Equator. Rhododeudron, 

 from Rhodon, a rose, and deudron, a tree. 



5. Cyrlauthiis spiralis, spiral leaved, He.xandria, Monogynia. Amaryllideae. 

 This plant is a native of South Africa, near Algoa Bay. Messrs. Loddiges's 

 received bulbs of it in 1832, and it flowered in March, 1S3.3, continuing seve- 

 ral weeks. Flowers: light red. It requires the protection of a Greenhouse, 

 and may be potted in sandy peat. It has not yet exhibited any signs of in- 

 crease. Cyrtanthus, from Kyrtos, curved; anthos, a flower. 

 {The remaining five plants ai'e obliged to be omitted till our next number ] 



A Supplement to the Practical Treatise on the Culture of Florist 

 Flowers, containing additional directions and improved modes 

 of cultivating the Auriculas, Pobjanthus, Tulip, Ranunculus, 

 Heart' s-ease. Carnation, Dahlia, Sfc. S^c. ivith Catalogues of 

 the newest and most esteemed varieties of each Flower. De- 

 dicated by permission to the Queen, by Thomas Hogg, 

 Florist, Paddiugton, near London ; pp. 208 ; price 7s. — 

 1833. Published and sold by the Author. 



The author of this interesting Floral publication has had a great many- 

 years' practice in the particular department of Floriculture which the work 

 comprises, and as might justly be calculated upon, the matter it contains is 

 very interesting; and to persons desirous of obtaining information on the 

 culture of Florist flowers, the book will be found useful. The subjects are 

 described in a plain and intelligent manner. The work contains improve- 

 ments that have resulted from the author's practice and observations since the 

 publication of the Treatise, to which this is a supplement. We recommend 

 the work to our readers. We have extracted an article on the culture of the 

 Hearl's-ease for our present number. 



On the Culture of Heart' s-ease or Violets. 



This flower has always been a favourite with the Ladies; its endearing 

 names of "Hearl's-ease," "Love in Idleness," "Cull me, sweet," "Three 

 Hinirking Faces under one Hood," (the two upper petals coifing or covering 

 the three lower,) " Pansy," corrupted from Pensee, thought, alluding to keep 

 in mind, or forget me not, have imparted a more than common interest to it. 

 Some say that Viola derives its name from its powerful scent " ex Vi olendi," 

 which »cent is confined to only two or three sorts j others ascribe to it a more 

 poetical origin. These flowers ought to be planted in clumps, or beds, and 

 then the rich mass of bloom, so mixed and so many coloured, produces a very 

 pleaning elli.'ct ; it comes into flower the end of May, and continues through 

 the HUinmer. 'the most ]irevailing colours are plain purple and violet, of 

 many khadcs ; red, brown, white, yellow, &c. as well as purple and violet, 

 variegated with white or yellow, &.c. ("naked with jet, 8cc." They like a cool 

 inoiit nitualioii in the garden, ])articularly in hot summers, and ought, there- 



