300 JS'^otices of neio and beautiful Plants 



" This species, like all the rest of the genus, succeeds very 

 well on the fiont shelf of a green-house, if not too much crowd- 

 ed with other plants. The soil in which it grows best is a sandy 

 peat, mixed with a little fresh sandy loam and decayed dung. It 

 is easily propagated by cuttings at any season, particularly in 

 spring or early in summer. 



The young plants should be shifted frequently, and must have 

 always plenty of pot room; otherwise they will become stunted and 

 unhealthy. The finest specimens of pimeleas are generally seen in 

 conservatories, where they are planted out in the border of the 

 house; there they become bushy plants and bloom perfectly." 

 {But. Reg., May.) 



Both the P. rosea, decussata and this species are plants that 

 we would recommend to the notice of every lover of green-house 

 plants. 



Yabdcece or LeguminGsm . 



TUhTENJE'A 



*obcordata. A pretty species under this name, raised from 

 Van Dieman's Land seeds, lately flowered in the garden of Rob- 

 ert Mangles, Esq. "It is a hardy green-house shrub, of the 

 easiest cultivation." [Bot. Reg., May.) 



.aCA'CFA 



*cultrif6rmis Jl. Cunningham. " This species has flowered 

 in the collection of Messrs. Rollissons, and proves a most charm- 

 ing conservatory plant, with quantities of clusters of yellow flow- 

 ers, terminating branches covered with glaucous half rhomboidal 

 leaves." {Bot. Reg., May.) 



DlCOTFLEDONOUS, MoNOPETALOUS, PlAJJTS. 



Asterdcece. 



ECHINA'CEA (A very objectionable name foiiripd from the adjective pcAinoceus, bristly, in 



allusion to tlie sharp point of thu scales of the receptacle, which bristle over the centie 



of the tiowerbncls of some species.) Jilduch. 



Dicksuni Liiidl. Mr. Dickson's Echinace.i. A frame perennial ; growing about a foot high ; 



with rosecdlored Mowers; appearing from Am;\ist to September; a native of Mexico ; 



cultivated in common garden soil ; increased by seeds. Bot. Reg. x. s. 27. 



"A very showy perennial, growing about a foot high," with 

 rose-colored flowers, two and a half or three inches in expan- 

 sion, having somewhat the apjjearance of a rudbeckia. It has 

 dark spindle-shaped roots, which may be taken up after flower- 

 ing in the autumn, and potted or placed in a box of dry sand or 

 mould during winter, secured from frost and damp. It is of 

 simple growth, as will be seen from the following remarks on its 

 treatment: — " The plant flowers from August to the end of Sep- 

 tember, in any good soil, particularly if a little peat and sand be 

 added. Like many Mexican Compositea?, it flowers so late that 

 it seldom ripens in the open border, but a few plants kept in the 

 green-house will do so: it is only by seeds that the species can 

 be increased with any certainty." 



