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clusters, pure white; foliage small; and natives of the Cape 

 of Good Hope. The foliage of C. aristata is cordate and 

 blotched. Some of the hardy species and varieties make 

 beautiful plants for the green-house, such nsjldn'da, Sitholdu\ 

 and caridea ; they are profuse bloomers and fine growers. 

 (Soil No. 3.) 



Clerodendron fidgrans midfiplcx, double white, frequently 

 known under the name of Volkamenia Japdnica^ which is a 

 very diiferent 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. Tiie flov/ers 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 arhorea and C. arhdrea varicgafa are both fine 

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

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

 downy, in large branching racemose spikes, and sweet-scent- 

 ed; grows freely. (Soil No. 2.) 



Clidnthus jmnicens, 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. K. Patter- 

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

 No. 10. 



Cltvca ndhilis, a tuberous herbaceous plant, closely allied 

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

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



