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SEPT.] GREEN-HOUSE CAPE BULBS, &c. 303 



CAPE AND HOLLAND BULBS. 



About the end of this month is the period for all of 

 these that are intended for the Green-house to be 

 potted. We specified some of the former last month, 

 and will here enumerate a few others. 



Bablana, a genus of small bulbs, with pretty blue, red, 

 and yellow flowers. B. distica, pale blue flowers in two 

 ranks. B. stricta, flowers blue and white. B. tubiflbra 

 is beautiful, colour white and red. B. plicata has sweet- 

 scented pale blue flowers. There are about twenty 

 species of them, and they grow from six to twelve in- 

 ches high. Four inch pots are sufficient for them. 



Gladiolus, Corn-flag, a genus of above fifty species. 

 There are several very showy plants amongst them, 

 and a few very superb. G. floribundus, large pink and 

 white flowers. G. cardinalis, flowers superb scarlet, 

 spotted with white. G. byzantmus, large purple flowers. 

 G. bldndus, flowers of a blush rose colour, and hand- 

 some. G. cuspidatus, flowers white and purple. G. 

 psittdcinus is the most magnificent of the genus, both in 

 size and beauty of flower; the flowers are striped with 

 green, yellow, and scarlet, about four inches diameter, 

 in great profusion, on a stem about two feet high, and 

 though rare in Europe may be seen in some collections 

 in this country. The beauty of this genus is all cen- 

 tred in the flowers ; the leaves are similar to Iris. 



Ixia, a genus containing about twenty-five species of 

 very free-flowering bulbs. /. monadelpha, flowers blush 

 and green. /. leucdntha, flowers large, white. /. capi- 

 tata, flowers in heads of a white and almost black co~ 



