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rery different plant, and not supposed to be in this country. 

 It keeps in a good green-house, and flowers well, frequently 

 blooming during winter, and if planted in the garden during 

 summer, will flower superbly. The flowers have a delicious 

 fragrance; if the foliage is rubbed with the hand the smell 

 is not so pleasant. The leaves are large, round, ovate, and 

 tomentose; flowers corymbose, compact, and terminal. (Soil 

 No. 12.) 



Clethra arbdrea, and C. arbdrea variegata, are both fine 

 shrubs; the latter is preferable; leaves are oblong, acumi- 

 nate, and serrated, having a gold-coloured edge ; flowers white, 

 downy, in large branching racemose spikes, and sweet-scented; 

 grows freely. (Soil No. 2.) 



Clidntlms punicens, or Glory flower. This magnificent 

 plant produced great excitement among European cultiva- 

 tors, which consequently reached this country. The plant 

 sold at extravagant prices, and cost the writer upwards of 

 fifty dollars to introduce a living plant of it, which was done 

 nine years ago. The plant has been cultivated in pots, and 

 has not yet given general satisfaction ; the leaves are smooth, 

 pinnated, of a delicate green, consisting of eight pairs; the 

 stem is of a soft woody nature; the splendid large scarlet, 

 leguminose, pea-like flowers grow in clusters, hanging down 

 from the axils of the leaves on the lateral branches; each 

 flower is about two inches long. It is a native of New 

 Zealand, and is tolerably hardy. We have not been able to 

 grow a solitary good specimen of it, and the only handsome 

 plant we have seen was in the collection of Gen. R. Patter- 

 son; where it was planted out in the conservatory in Soil 

 No. 10. 



Clivea ndbilis, a tuberous herbaceous plant, closely allied 

 to Brunsvigia. The flowers are said to be very splendid ; 

 colour scarlet and green : although it has been in the coun- 

 try several years, we are not aware of its ever having bloomed. 

 (Soil No. 11.) 



Cobcea scdndens, the only species. It is a climber of very 

 rapid growth ; has been known to grow above two hundred 

 feet in one summer; large bell-shaped flowers; when they are 

 newly expanded, they are of a pale green colour, and chango 

 to dark purple : will grow in the garden during summer, bear- 

 ing a continual profusion of flowers, but will not stand frost 

 When this plant becomes too large in the house, do not cut it 



