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ovate and tomentose ; flowers corymbose, compact and ter- 

 minal. (Soil No. 12.) 



Clethra arborea and C. .arborea variegata are both fine 

 shrubs ; the latter is preferable ; leaves are oblong, acumi- 

 nate and serrated, having a gold-coloured edge ; flowers 

 white, downy, in large branching racemose spikes, and 

 sweet-scented ; grows freely. (Soil No. 2.) 



Clidnthus punicens,* or Glory flower. This magnificent 

 plant a few years ago produced great excitement among 

 European cultivators, which consequently reached this 

 country. The plant sold at extravagant prices, and cost 

 the writer upwards of fifty dollars to introduce a living 

 plant of it, which was done three years ago. The plant 

 has been cultivated in pots, and has not yet given general 

 satisfaction ; the leaves are smooth, pinnated, of a delicate 

 green, consisting of eight pairs and an old one ; the stem 

 is of a soft woody nature ; the splendid large scarlet, legu- 

 minose, pea-like flowers grow in clusters, hanging down 

 from the axils of the leaves on the lateral branches ; each 

 flower is about two inches long. To have it in perfection, 

 it must be grown in large pots, or planted in the ground in 

 the conservatory or green-house, or even a good pit would 

 do ; it is a native of New Zealand, and is tolerably hardy 

 in the south ; it makes a magnificent hardy shrub. (Soil 

 No. 10.) 



CRvea nobilis, a tuberous herbaceous plant, closely allied 

 to JBrunsvigia. The flowers are said to be very splendid ; 

 colour scarlet and green : although it has been in the coun- 

 try several years, we are not aware of its ever having 

 bloomed. (Soil No. 11.) 



Cobsea scdndens, the only species. It is a climber of very 

 rapid growth, has been known to grow above two hundred 

 feet in one summer ; large bell-shaped flowers ; when they 

 are newly expanded, they are of a pale green colour, and 

 change to dark purple : will grow in the garden during 

 summer, bearing a continual profusion of flowers, but will 

 not stand frost. When this plant becomes too large in the 



* A plant five feet high, and only eighteen months old, now in 

 the beautiful conservatory of Gen. R. Patterson, of this city, has 

 upward of fifty racemes or clusters' of flowers, varying from five 

 to nine on a raceme, and will be in full bloom in a few weeks ; this 

 is the finest specimen we have heard of in this country. 



