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indeed nearly white, with a purple or pink centre, forming a 

 beautiful contrast with the deep crimson and purple sorts; 

 Elizabeth, Pearl of England, Prince Arthur, Madam Sontag, 

 Sidonia. To grow these in perfection, they require to be 

 very frequently shifted, as they advance in growth, till you 

 have them in pots ten inches wide. Just now, I have plants 

 only six months from the cutting that are four feet high 

 and sixteen feet in circumference, loaded with thousands 

 of flowers, and are the admiration of every beholder. They 

 require liberal supplies of water. F. fulgens is a distinct 

 species; the foliage is very different from any other sort; 

 leaves of a well-grown plant are four inches wide and five 

 inches and a half long : the flowers are from two inches and 

 a half to three inches long, of a pink and scarlet colour, and 

 the plant is nearly tuberous. We would recommend our 

 readers to grow them from seeds when obtained : it is well 

 known they will produce variety, and it is even supposed by 

 some that the seeds of F. coc.cinea have produced by hy- 

 bridizing nearly all the varieties of the present day, which 

 exceed one hundred : most of the flowers are a bright scarlet, 

 the stamens are encircled with a petal of bright purple, and 

 are of very curious construction ; they bear a dark purple 

 berry, and are of the easiest cultivation; but during summer 

 the pots must be carefully kept from the sun, although the 

 plants will not be affected by it. If the plants are young 

 and growing freely, we find that a deluge of rain, and after- 

 wards a hot day, is their instant death. Some of them do 

 tolerably well when planted in the flower-garden early in 

 May. (Soil No. 10.) 



Fabidna, a genus of new plants that will prove entirely 

 hardy in the Southern States ; they are upright-growing 

 shrubs, with delicate foliage. F. imbricata is the most popu- 

 lar, producing a profusion of white tubular flowers about an 

 inch long, of easy culture in soil No. 12. 



Gardoquia Hookeri, a very pretty dwarf plant native of 

 the Floridas ; it blooms profusely from June to October ; 

 flowers are about one inch and a half long, of a tubular 

 labiate form, of a bright orange colour; it is easy of culture 

 in soil No. 1. 



Gelsemium nitidum, Carolina jasmine, a most beautiful 

 climbing evergreen, flowering shrub. In the mouths of April 

 and May it produces many large jellow trumpet-like blossoms 



