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Art. VI. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of Neto Plants, 

 Jignred in foreign jicriodicals ; with Remarks on those re- 

 cently introduced to, or originated, in, American gardens, and 

 additional information npon plants already in cultivation. 



Edwards's Botanical Register, or Ornamsntal Flower Garden and Shrubbery. 

 Each number containing from six to eight plates ; with additional miscel- 

 laneous information relative to new plants. In monthly numbers ; 3s. 

 plain, 35 6d. colored. 



Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants. Each 

 number containing four colored plates. Monthly, 2s. 66?. each. Edited 

 by J. Paxton, Gardener to the Duke of Devonshire. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle, a stamped newspaper of Rural Economy and 

 General News. Edited by Prof. Lindley. Weekly. Price Qd. each. 



Curtis's Botanical Magazine, in monthly numbers. By Sir Wm. Jackson 

 Hooker, K. H., &c., 3d series, vol. 1, 1845. Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5. 



Floriculiural Intelligence. New and Rare Plants. — Some 

 new and rare plants have been introduced into the country 

 the past year, among the number are Gardenia- Stanleya^/a, 

 Whitfieldia lateritia, >S'tatice macrophylla, Napoleonm impe- 

 rial is, Tropajohun Lobb/d7??/m, &c. ; these have been added 

 to the collection of J. R. Valk, Esq., Flushing, L. L, which 

 we i;hall notice in a future number. 



N&70 Fuchsias. — The following new and very choice fuch- 

 sias have been added to the collection of Messrs. Hovey & 

 Co, : — Miller's Expansa, Duke of York, Enchantress, Bal- 

 loonia superba, Captivation, and Queen Victoria ; Ivery's Sir 

 H. Pottinger ; Kendall's Erecta elegans, and Epps's Nymph. 



Zro/a odordia is the name of a splendid new species re- 

 cently introduced to England by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince 

 &. Co. of Exeter. The leaves are nearly of the size and 

 texture of the India rubber tree; and the flowers, v/hich ap- 

 pear in a panicle a foot in diameter, have a red tube, white 

 above, the white buds tipped with rose, the segments of the 

 limb white, some twisted, and then changing to buff. It is 

 withal deliciously fragrant. 



Gesnera. Gerard\kx\di. — M. Neuman, of the Jardin des 

 Plantes, describes this -new species as having much resem- 

 blance to G. zebrina, in its flowers, which are half red and 



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