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we give a descriptive list of many of the finest, with a faint 

 outline of their characters and general treatment, which 

 will prove a desideratum for those who are inexperienced, 

 and strangers to the beauties, pleasures, and arts of exotic 

 flora culture. Therefore, if you have any of the following 

 plants that you are desirous of encouraging, they should 

 be repotted this or next month at the latest. Large plants 

 will not require it, if they were done in August. Pots one 

 size larger than those that they are in, are sufficient. 



Acacias and Mimosas being now united into one genus, 

 there are above two hundred species. About one hundred 

 and thirty belong to the green-house. Among such a 

 beautiful family, both for elegance of flower and beauty of 

 foliage, it will be difficult to specify the most handsome 

 and desirable for this department. A. dealbdta, Jl. glauce- 

 scens, Jl. verticillata, Jl.Jlorabunda, Jl. diffusa, A. armata, 

 Jl. decipiens, Jl. fragraiis, A. pulchella, Jl. lophdntha, Jl. 

 decurrens, Jl. pubescens, Jl. myrtifolia, Jl. conspiata, Jl. 

 limaris, &c. These will afford a great variety of foliage, 

 and are very desirable, flowering principally in w r inter, or 

 early in spring. The flowers of those belonging to the 

 green-house are of a yellow or straw colour ; the most of 

 those that are red or purple, with the celebrated medicinal 

 species, belong to the hot-house, for which see May. 

 There are some of the species very subject to the white 

 scaly insect, which must be attended to, that they may not 

 get to any extent. (Soil No. 1.) 



Jlgapdnthus, three species. Jl. umbellalus, with bright 

 blue flowers, is very celebrated, and Avell known in the 

 collections of the country. There is a variegated variety 

 of it highly desirable, the foliage being white striped, and 

 frequently the flower stem and the flower Jl. albidus has 

 pale white flowers, and as yet rather scarce. They have 

 very strong roots, and require plenty of freedom. Plants 

 are always large before they flower, and when the pots, by 

 frequent shifting, become inconvenient, the plant should be 

 divested of all the earth, and, if too large, divide it, cutting 

 off the strongest of the fibres ; then they will admit of being 

 put into smaller pots. If the above operation is performed 

 in August or September, it will not retard their flowering, 

 which, when well grown, is very handsome, the flower 

 stem arising about three feet, and crowned with twenty or 



