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The platform or terrace, may be finished with turf and gravel, or 

 paved, as may be most convenient in the given situation. 



NOTES ON NEW AND CHOICE PLANTS. 



FROM THE FOREIGN JOURNALS. 



BiLLBERGiA viRiDiFLORA, (Green flowered). Nat. Ord. Bromeliacfo,. 

 A green-flowered Billbergia is highly interesting. The lower por- 

 tion of the flower-stalk and its leaf-like bracts are of a bright car- 

 mine color ; the flowers, tubular-shaped, are produced in a large 

 terminal panicle ; each blossom green, three inches long. It merits 

 a place in the stove, and will contrast very strikingly with the 

 blues and scarlets of the other species. (Fig. in Flor. des Serves, 

 1019). It is in the collection of M. Van Houtte, at Gand. 



CoNvouuLUs ALTH.EoiDES, var. argyreus. Nat. Ord. Conxolvulacect. 

 It is a dwarf, bushy-like plant. The floral stems of the plant (fig- 

 ured in Flor. des Serres) are about six inches long, each termina- 

 ting with a flower of a bright pink, with a white throat, and two 

 inches across. It blooms in profusion, and such humble, bushy- 

 like plants, with numerous large flowers, are very strikingly hand- 

 some. It merits a place in every greenhouse or pit frame. It will 

 flourish in the open ground in summer, but will require winter 

 protection in-doors. (Fig. in Flor. des Serres, 1021). It is grown 

 in M. Van Houtte's establishment. 



GiLiA coRONOPiFOLiA, var. carnea-lutea. Nat. Ord. Polemoniacece. 

 This handsome flowering variety is a seedling from Ipo7nopsis elc- 

 gans, which it resembles, in its narrow fine foliage and growth of 

 plant. The flowers are produced in a Zar^e terminal branchy pyra- 

 midal head, containing almost a hundred blossoms on each head. 

 Each flower is three parts of an inch across, and the tube about as 

 long. It is of a pretty nankeen-yellow color, with a bright car- 

 mine rim around the mouth of the tube, which extends beyond in 

 similar colored rayed lines. It is exceedingly handsome, and 

 worth a place in every greenhouse, or open bed in summer. It 

 blooms from June to September, or later, by treatment according- 

 ly. It requires a similar mode of treatment to the Ipomopsis ele- 

 gant. See an article upon it in a previous volume of the " Flori- 



