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Ko. XL VIII. for December, contains 

 3032 to 3038. — Gladiolus *psittiicinus. A splendid species ; the spikes 

 1 ft. long; the tube of the corolla greenish with purple streaks, expanding 

 into a canipanulate spreading limb, the upper lacinia; of which are of a rich 

 scarlet. Altogether, this is a very fine flower, for which " we are indebted 

 in part to Richard Harrison, Esq., of Liverpool, in whose garden at Aig- 

 burgh it flowered during the latter part of the summer and autumn of the 

 present year (1830); and in part to Mr. Hitchin of Norwich, the eminent 

 cultivator of succulent plants. On taking up the root, at the end of the 

 flowering season, Mr. Harrison was surprised to find that the solitary original 

 bulb had been replaced by several fine large ones ; and between them lay 

 hundreds of gemmae, each of which is, doubtless, capable of forming a new 

 plant. These, we will venture to say, will be distributed with a liberality 

 very different from the line of coniluct pursued by a gardener at Leyden in 

 Holland, where Mr. Harrison first saw the plant ; and who, upon this 

 gentleman's expressing a wish to possess a bulb, offered to send him one, 

 ' when he should have received a collection of orchideous plants from Mr, 

 Harrison.' Such a want of confidence towards a well known horticultu- 

 rist could not impress our friend with a very favourable impression of the 

 possessor of this charming Gladiolus ; and, of course, he declined all fur- 

 ther connnunication with him. On his return, no sooner were Mr. Harri- 

 son's wishes made known to Mr. Hitchin, than he wrote to his friend and 

 fellow-cultivator of succulents, the Prince de Salm Dick, for a bulb of 

 Gladiolus psittacinus, and it was forwarded to Mr. Harrison forthwith." 

 We give the above extract in order to contrast the conduct of different 

 botanists. On the general principles of human nature, he must be an un- 

 happy man who wishes to keep every thing he has to himself, and not less 

 unwise, in a worldly view, than unhappy. A botanist or gardener, to be 

 happy, must bring into action the feelings of liberality, benevolence, and 

 kindness, in short, of sympathy with all botanists and gardeners ; as well 

 as exercise the sense of justice towards all men. — Alstroemeri« *psitta- 

 cina. Deserving a place in every green-house, from the singular colour of 

 its flowers. In the garden of the late excellent Robert Barclay, Esq., of 

 Bur}' Hill, it has blossomed in the open border. — Crotalaria verrucosa. 

 A stove annual from the East and West Indies, with flowers resembling 

 those of the lupine. — Papiiver *cr6ceum. A native of the Altai Moun- 

 tains, sent to the Glasgow garden by Prof Ledebour of Dorpat, in 1830. 

 It resembles P. nudicaule, but surpasses it in beauty. — Calceolaria *bi- 

 color. Corolla sulphur-coloured and white. — *Lophospermum scandens, 

 more correctly, as Mr. Sweet has shown (infra, p. Q>5.), L. erubescens. 



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No. VIII. for October, contains 



13.56 to 1362. — .S'alvia fulgens. A splendid perennial, from Mexico to 

 the Horticultural Society, in 1829 ; but cultivated in the gardens of Madrid 

 forty years before. Such are the disadvantages of kingly governments, and 

 a rude or priest-ridden state of society. — Tillandsm ;-6sea. — C'anna *Achi- 

 ras. From Mendoza to Mr. Lambert, who considers it the hardiest Canna 

 he has ever cultivated. — Ribes *divaricatum. A robust prickly shrub, 

 bearing a gooseberry, from the north-west coast of North America. — 

 Sparaxis *pendula; Wdeae. A handsome conservatory plant, well worth 

 cultivation. " In Mi\ Herbert's conservatory, where it blossomed in June 

 last for the first time in England, the flowering stems were 4 ft. high, and 

 the length of the full-grown leaves 3 ft." The pendulous flowers are of a 

 dark purple. — Zephyranthes *mes6chloa. A green-house bulb from Buenos 

 Ayres to Mr. Mackay of the Clapton nursery, by his collector, Mr. Ander- 



