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A- himenes about sixteen species. The type of this new 

 genus has been long known in our collections under the name 

 of Trevirdnia coccinea, now A. coccinea, flowers bright scar- 

 let; A. longiflora, large blue; A. grandiflora, fine rose; A. 

 hirsuta, bright rosy purple ; A. rosea, profuse flowering, and 

 A. picta, the foliage of which is beautifully variegated and 

 striped ; A. peduncalata, spotted ; A. elegans, purple ; A. 

 patens, violet; A. Baumannia, dark violet; A. fimbriata, 

 Fringed white; A. gloxiniflora, spotted; A. Margaretta, pure 

 whi*e ; with nearly thirty other sorts, all having some faint 

 distinction. They have all scaly tuberous roots requiring the 

 pots to be kept entirely dry during winter; in this month they 

 should be taken from the old soil and planted into fresh, three 

 or four in a six inch pot, giving gentle waterings till they 

 begin to grow. They delight in a warm close moist atmo- 

 sphere, and will bloom freely from July to October. (Soil 

 No. 10.) 



Aloe. Nearly a hundred species of grotesque-looking suc- 

 culent plants, and are principally natives of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and, consequently, will do well in the warmest part of 

 the green-house, although, when convenient, they frequently 

 get a situation in the hot-house. A. vulgaris, known as A. 

 barbadensis, has orange-yellow flowers; A. obliqua, now 

 called Gasteria obliqua; A. dicho'toma, and A. variegdta, 

 which is perhaps the finest of the genus : the leaves are beau- 

 tifully striped, and commonly known as the partridge-breast 

 Aloe; flowers scarlet and green. They ought to have very 

 little water, once a month is sufficient. They would grow 

 without it, and several of them would also grow by being sus- 

 pended in the house, without earth or any substitute about 

 their roots, by being frequently sprinkled with water. Few 

 of them are admired for the beauty of their flowers, but the 

 whole are considered curious. They flower from May to Sep- 

 tember. (Soil No. 9.) 



Alonsbas, five species, all soft-wooded, small, shrubby plant?, 

 with scarlet flowers. A. incisifolia is known among us unde,- 

 the name of Hemimeris urtici folia, and A. lincdris as II. 

 linedris. If well treated they form very handsome plants. 

 and flower freely. They will not bear strong fumigation ; 

 and, when the house is under that operation, they must be 

 put ou the floor of the green-house, where they will not be 



