496 FloricuUural and Botaiiical Notices. 



Cassandra. — Dark maroon upper petals one mass of color, 

 except a narrow clean bright margin : lower petals light pink ; 

 free bloomer, and good habit. 



GuLiELMA. — A very smooth, constant, and well-shaped vari- 

 ety ; a deep lilac purple spot shades off to the margin of the 

 upper petals ; the lower ones are of a lighter color, with a 

 clean white eye ; excellent habit and bloomer. 



GusTAvus. — Striking flower ; upper petals very dark maroon 

 blotch, with deep rose edge; lower ones rose ground, with 

 whitish eye deeply veined down to the centre ; good habii, 

 free bloomer, and constant. 



HoNORA. — A round, moderate-sized flower, very clean pink- 

 ish white lower petals, with steady purple maroon spot upon 

 the upper ones, leaving a well-defined margin ; not a free 

 bloomer or strong habit. 



Rosamund. — A novel variety, of a general rich rosy purple, 

 with striking white eye, fine dark spot terminating well at the 

 base of the petals, and shading gradually off to the margin ; 

 good habit, free bloomer, and constant. 



Blanche.^ — Large pinkish white flower, with well-defined 

 dark spot, broad petals, but not smooth on the edges ; abun- 

 dant bloomer, and good habit. 



Grandiflora. — A thin, large, good-shaped, constant variety, 

 rosy-scarlet lower petals, the upper ones of a deeper color, 

 with dark crimson spot veining olT to the edge and throat. 



A?iemdne japouica. — This very beautiful plant is now in 

 bloom incur collection, and it is a fine acquisition to our stock 

 of late flowering perennials. A young plant imported last 

 February, has grown so rapidly as to fill a pot ten inches in 

 diameter, and, during the whole of October, it has been one 

 of the finest objects of the conservatory. It grows about fif- 

 teen inches high, with a neat anemone-like foliage, and the 

 pale rosy flowers, Avhich are semi-double, and rise on tall 

 stems, are exceedingly showy. Throughout the summer, it 

 has been placed in the open air. 



Cist7'uin aurdiitiacum is also now flowering in the stove, 

 where its panicles of deep yellow, tubular blossoms are highly 

 ornamental, especially at this season of the year, when there 

 are but few yellow flowers. The plants have been kept in 

 the greenhouse all summer, and, now brought into a little 



