420 J^otices of new and beautiful Plants 



aging the plants in pots: — " The seeds were sown about the mid- 

 dle of September, in a well drained pot, the soil used being light 

 and sandy; the seeds being barely covered with a very fine top 

 soil, the pot was placed in a moist heat till the plants were of 

 sufficient size to prick off into sixty-sized pots [thumb pots] of 

 the same light sandy soil, putting five or six in a pot; they were 

 then placed in the green-house, near the glass, or in an airy situ- 

 ation, till the following February, when they were shifted again 

 into small sixties, filled with soil composed of two parts leaf 

 mould, enriched with strong well decomposed manure, one part 

 good loam and sand, and placing three plants in a pot; they were 

 then placed in a house, the temperature of which vvas kept at 

 from 50° to 60°. In a short time they began to grow vigorously, 

 being shifted regularly, as they required it, each time, into pots 

 one size larger, until they finally flowered in a twenty-four size, 

 [number four of our gardens.] After the plants had been in 

 heat some time, and began to show symptoms of flowering, they 

 were taken back to the green-house, where they have been in 

 flower these two months, presenting, at the present time, (.Tune 

 16th,) one entire mass of bloom, some of them being trained in 

 cones two feet high and three feet in circumference." It re- 

 quires plenty of water when it commences to bloom. [Pax. 

 Mag. Bot., Aug.) 



Primuldcea. 



PRI'MULA 



venusta Rrichevb. Puiple Auricula. A hardy perennial plnnt; growing six inchps hi>;h ; 

 with purple flowers ; appearing in May ; a native of Hungary ; introduced in 1833. Bot. 

 Reg., 1983. 



A pretty species, with foliage like the P. auricula, and dull 

 purple blossoms, on umbels of from three to five each, on short 

 slender stems. It is distinguished from P. auricula by its smooth 

 toothletted leaves and long-tubed calyx. It grows in the hilly 

 parts of Hungary, and also in the crevices of rocks at Krain, 

 near Idria. It was introduced to England, from the Botanic 

 Garden at Vienna, by the Hon. W. F. Strangways, who fur- 

 nished the specimen from which the drawing was taken. Mr. 

 Strangways suspects that this species may have been, in part, the 

 parent of many of the garden varieties, " a conjecture," Dr. 

 Lindley remarks, " which the eye of the corolla much strength- 

 ens." It is a pretty little species for a border flower. (Bot. 

 Reg., Aug.) 



MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PlANTS, 



hilidcccE. 



ORNITHO'GALUM 

 l.tifiilium l.iiiii. Broad-Jcarff/ OrnilhogaUim. A Breen-lioiis(>(?) plant ; growing two feet 

 high ; with greenish-white flowers; appearing in April and May ; a native of Kgypt. Bot. 

 Reg., 1978. 

 SynuiiyiiiF.-:: O. mAximnm Chts. StellAris Iatif6Iia J^7>nS•. 



A very handsome and showy species, throwing up a spike ter- 



