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by Mr. SwAiNSON. It requires the stove, aud usually flowers in the latter 

 part of summer. Colour : each flower is variegated wilh lilac, crimson, yel- 

 low, aud white. It will now and then admit of sejiaration, although it mul- 

 tiplies but slowly; tlie soil should be sandy peat, with moss and a good pro- 

 portion of small pieces of broken pots. Great care is requisite to keep the 

 wood-lice from it, or these destructive vermin will absolutely destroy it. 

 C'attleya, from W. Cattle v, a member of the London Horticultural Society. 

 7. Sarrachiia flaca, yellow. Polyandria, Blonogynia. Sarraccniae. A 

 native of Carolina and Florida, growing in swamps. It must be kept in the 

 greenhouse, in a small pan of water. The soil should be sandy peat; it will 

 sometimes separate at the root. Colour : greenish yellow. Sarraceuia, from 

 Dr. Sarkazin, a French physician. 



8. Gn'tdia inibirbis, beardless — scaled. Octandria, Monogynia. Thymelese. 

 This is a native of the Cape of Good Mope ; it flowers most part of the sum- 

 mer. Like most of this family, the flowers are fragrant in the night, but 

 scarcely so at all in the day-time. Colour : very pale green. It requires the 

 greenhouse, and should be potted in sandy peat; it may be readily increased 

 by cuttings. Cnidia, ancient name of the laurel. 



9. Solanum crispum, curled. Pentandria, Monogynia. Solanea;. A native 

 of Chili. Colour: lilac. Flowers in May and June. 1 1 is supposed to be 

 hardy enough to bear our winters. It grows fxst in almost any soil, aud will 

 increase by cuttings without difiiculty. Solanum, from Solor, to comfort; 

 soothes by stupifying. 



10. Rosa Banksia lutea, Lady Banks's, yellow flowered. Icosandria, Poly- 

 ^ynia. Rosacea;. This is a very pretty climbing rose, and it usually flowers 

 earlier than most of the roses; aud, with the shelter and support of a wall, 

 will flourish almost in any soil or situation. Rosa, from llhodd, red, Celt; 

 colour of flower. 



On the Cullivalion of the Auricula. By INIr. Thomas Hogg, 

 Florist, Paddington, Loudon. 



The Auricula, one of the early and favorite flowers of Spring, still conti- 

 oueK to be very generally cultivated, and many new varieties of it are produced 

 every year from seed, though it takes some time before they get abroad : the 

 Horist who has been lucky enough to raise a fine flower, is seldom inclined to 

 part with any of it, till he has been enabled to increase it to ten or a dozen 

 plants, which are generally sold out at one appointed time; for unless he can 

 make something by it, at the beginning, to remunerate him for his trouble, 

 he will have little chance of doing it afterwards. Some jdants throw out ofl'- 

 Bets freely, and are easily projjagated, while others do it very slowly; so that 

 it often takes four or five years of careful culture to raise even six jjlants of 

 some kinds, 'I'his is one reason why Lee's Colonel 'I'aylor and Hedges's (Jri- 

 tannia still continue dear and scarce; they ])roducc so few oflsets ; added to 

 which, plants of Colonel Taylor seldom survive the fifth or sixth year, i am 

 not aware that any other flower has had half the pains and trouble liestowcd 

 upon it as the Auricula, in regard to compost, l^xperiinent after experiment 

 has been tried, and the combination and conniiixture of every known soil 

 and manure have been made a hundred dillerent ways; nor do I know that 

 the result of any one experiment, after all, has been conclusive and satisfac- 

 tory. There seems a capriciousness in the Auricula, at times, with regard to 

 itK nourishment, for which no one can account ( for in the same kind of soil, 

 in which it has thriven and flourished two or three years, it will, if the same 

 compost l>c loiiK continued, often lauguish aud deciy, without any apparent 

 cau«e. Tliit has made me less particular about bolli llii' precise quantities 

 and qualities of the dill'i rent ingredients, toininonly u^ed ; nor do I find it 

 neoeaary to mete them out with that exact proportion wbieh my late brother 

 florint, KMMbiiiiiN, UM-d lo impress upon me, at I be lime I a.ssisted him in 

 the Kritiiig and < oiiipilalion ol hii Treatise. This was the begiuiiiiig or dawn 



