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liness in their rich tints, which are found in but few species. 

 The only objection to it is, the faded appearance of its fohage, 

 when the plants begin to form their buds, and until they have finish- 

 ed their blooming; but this is mote than a hundred times compen- 

 sated by its every other claim to admiration. This species has 

 also been found, so far, in this collection, of simple culture, the 

 only precaution necessary being to water cautiously, and to give 

 the pots a good drainage of nearly or quite half their depth. E. 

 concinna, conferta, ericoides, gilva, margaritacea, and many oth- 

 ers, are growing vigorously, and will probably attain sufficient 

 size to flower profusely next season. Azalea indica phoenicea, 

 and p. elegans, Gillingliamt', pulchra, Young/, hybrida, &c. are 

 each in flower. The phoenicea still stands superb, and we are 

 not sure that it would not bear away the ])alm from every other 

 variety. 



Harrison's yellow rose, budded on a tall stock, and placed in 

 the green-house, has been very gay with an abundance of its 

 golden flowers, which, we think, open better in the month of 

 March, in a cool green-house, than they do in the open air, dur- 

 ing the hot weather of June and July. Several pots of sparax- 

 ises, ixias, &c. are now beginning to throw up their flower- 

 spikes; and some buds have already opened: there will be a 

 pretty display in a few days. 



In the stove that new and desirable plant, the Ferbena Tweed- 

 ieajja, (of which there is here a flne stock,) is displaying its ex- 

 quisite deep crimson blossoms, almost approaching scarlet. The 

 chamaedrifolia, though more dazzling in its tints, is yet less beau- 

 tiful, both on account of its spare blooming, the smallness of its 

 flat umbels, and its straggling and shabby habit, especially during 

 winter; while the former is a most abundant bloomer, nearly to 

 a fault, the umbels very large, compact, and handsomely shaped, 

 and the habit erect, with neat foliage, of a deep green shade. It 

 does not seem near so liable to the attacks of the red spider as 

 the chamsedrifolia; it also flowers well in a much lower temperature 

 than that species, and is kept through the months of December and 

 January in any good green-house. It is one of the richest ac- 

 <]uisiiions to our collections which has been lately made. Lan- 

 tana Sellowi is a decidedly fine plant at this season; it is also 

 stated by Mr. Paxton, in a late number of his JMagazine of Bot- 

 any^ to be peculiarly suited to the open garden, where it may be 

 planted in a dry situation, and the shoots pegged down like the 

 Ferbena chamaedrifolia, with which its beautiful purple heads of 

 flowers form a pleasing contrast. Manettia cordifolia, just com- 

 mencing to flower, after a lapse of about two months, is a fine 

 twining plant for the stove; its scarlet tubular blossoms, on long 

 slender peduncles, produced plentifully, have a rich appearance. 

 It should be found in every green-house collection, where, 



