24 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



they belong, and merit a place in every select collection. We are informed 

 that the kinds were selected out of 7000 Seedlings. From the fact of their 

 having bloomed two seasons, their merits are correctly ascertained, and we 

 opine may be depended upon according to description given. 



Brewer's King of Ike Dahlias, delicate white with crimson edge, and finely 

 cupped petals, grows three feet high. 



Brewer's Scarlet Perfection, dark scarlet, cupped petals, grows four feet 

 high. 



Brewer's Beauty of Cambridge, clear white, tipped with bright violet pur- 

 pie, four to five feet high. 



Brewer's Eminent, fine large scarlet, three to lour feet high. 



Brewer's Lass of Richmond Hill, bright primrose, very good formed flower, 

 four feet high. 



Brewer's Grand Monarch, light and dark purple shaded, very large and 

 good flower, five feet high. 



The above sorts were exhibited and won prizes at the London Horticul- 

 tural Societies' show, Metropolitan Society show, Cambridge Horticultural 

 show, Cambridge Florist show, &c. kc. obtaining seven splendid Prizes of 

 Plate, Medals, &c. More particulars will shortly be given in the Advertising 

 sheet of the Cabinet. 



REFERENCE TO THE EMBELLISHMENTS. 



1. Calandrinia discolor, two-coloured leaved. This very beautiful species 

 of Calandrinia produces ilowers similar in size and form to C. graiuli flora 

 (see Vol. II., plate II.) but are of a brighter rosy line. It succeeds well 

 treated as a greenhouse plant, but still better if it be planted in the open 

 border, in a warm sunny situation, where the plant will grow more vigorously, 

 and the flowers be much larger. Like C. grandillora, we find it wry sus- 

 ceptible of injury from excessive wet, either at the roots, or heart of the 

 plant. A bed of the plant makes a conspicuous show. It Ilowers 

 from June to the end of September. Class, l'olyandria; order, Monogynia; 

 natural order, Portnlacea?. 



2. Sollya hetcrophylla, various leaved. The plant is a native of Van Die- 

 man's Laud, and is a very beautiful twining evergreen shrub. It is treated 

 as a greenhouse plant, but we find it stands the open border in this country, 

 either trained against a south-aspected Mall, or trellis in a sheltered situa- 

 tion. Its pretty evergreen foliage, and azure blue flowers, produced in pro- 

 fusion in the open border, render the plant a desirable one, meriting a place 

 in every collection. It blooms from July to October. We find it grows very 

 vigorously in a mixture of turfy loam, peat and leaf mould. The plant is 

 readily increased by cuttings." Sollya, in honour of R. H. Soixy, Esq., 

 F. R. S., and L. S., &c, See. Pentandria, Monogynia. Pittosporeae. 



3. Calandrinia speciosa, shewy. This very pretty hardy annual is a na- 

 tive of Northern California. The plant produces blossoms in vast profu- 

 sion, which open only when the sun shines upon (hem ; they then exhibit a 

 light crimson carpet of flowers. The plant requires a fresh turry loam soil, 

 and vegetable mould, and to be grown on a raised bed or bank. Seeds 

 should be sown at twice. Those sown early in Spring produce plants which 

 bloom from June to August; those sown in May or June, from September 

 to the end of the season. The plant produces abundance of seeds. A very 

 few seeds scattered in a place, will raise plants for a patch extending half a 

 yard or more. The plant lies prostrate, not rising more than four inches. 



FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR JANUARY. 



Dahlias. — Seed should be sown any time about the latter end of the 

 month or early in the next. The old roots should be potted and placed in a 

 hot-bed frame, or stove, for early flowering, or raising by slips. 



Roses. — Those growing in pots, if placed in the stove, will bloom about 

 the latter end of March, 



Tilips. — The beds will require sheltering from severe storms of hail, 

 rain, &c, if such occur. 



