figured in the London Flor. and Bot. Magazines. 337 



To have the plants do well, be sure to allow a great quantity 

 of potsherds to each pot, — select a proper soil, — place the 

 plants in a very airy place in the green-house, — and water only 

 at such times as the soil really needs it, and not indiscriminately 

 or at regular periods, whether the plants need it or not. Equal 

 parts of sandy loam and heath mould, with a good proportion of 

 white sand and gritstone, well incorporated, are the chief points 

 to be attended to in the selection of the compost. Water spar- 

 ingly in the winter, and more liberally in the summer season. 



The Telopea may be described as a leafy shrub, growing six 

 or more feet high, with obtuse unequally serrated leaves. The 

 flowers are of a rich crimson, and produced in a terminal head, 

 quite large, three or four inches in diameter, and five or six in 

 height, resembling almost exactly the centre of the flower of the 

 warratah camellia, but more than five times the size. They have 

 a magnificent appearance, even at a great distance. 



The same treatment suits all the banksias, and indeed most of 

 the 'Sew Holland plants. Once properly grown and a judicious 

 soil procured them, it is but little trouble in growing them to a 

 great degree of success. We should be glad to see this noble 

 plant in all our first-rate green-house collections, where it would 

 not only be a rarity, but a plant of uncommon splendor. The 

 easiest mode of pro[)agation is by the suckers which spring from 

 the roots, which should be laid down into small pots, where 

 they will soon form roots. [Pax, Mag. Bot., May.) 

 VortuldceK. 



Yortuldca GilUesu — a beautiful little plant, and yet but little 

 known, is flowering finely under the management of Mr. Lee, at 

 Brookline. A hot and dry situation seems necessary to bring 

 out its full character. A plant was accidentally placed in a vase, 

 which was removed to a sunny aspect. The plant soon began 

 to make a vigorous growth, and within a week or two from twen- 

 ty to thirty of its deep roseate flowers began to open at the same 

 time, forming, and presenting, a brilliant appearance. We intend 

 to notice this plant at length, some future lime. 



Dicotyledonous, Monopetalous, Plants. 

 Schropularidcece. 



AJ^aKT.OW-IJt 

 salicnri.-et6liH LinM. Willow-Zrarerf Angeldnia. A green-house orstnve evergreen perennial; 

 ppiwinL' from fiftepn to thirty inches high; with purplf^ flow ri; appeiiriiia in August; a 

 native !>(' CiracMs; grown ill sandy loaui and peat mouldj increased by cuttings. Pax. 

 Mng. Bot., Vol. v., p. 75. 



This is another old green-house or stove plant, introduced 

 twenty years since into Britain, "where," says Mr. Paxton, "it 

 is almost banished from our stoves, and is rarely seen or met 

 with, except in the collections of such individuals who do not 

 participate in the general mania for new plants, but value them 



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