62 FloricuUural and Botanical Notices 



SILE^NE 



speciosa Paxt. Showy Catch-fly. A half-hardy perennial plant ; growing a foot high ; 

 with scarlet flowers ; appearing in the autumn; increased by division of the root ; grown in 

 any good soil. Paxt. Mag. Bot. Vol. X. p. 219. 



A very brilliant species, similar to S. laciniata, but 

 of a better habit, and with flowers of a more splendid hue. 

 The leaves are opposite, sessile, long and lanceolate, and 

 the flowers in axillary and terminal panicles. The petals 

 are divided into two principle segments. The plant is sup- 

 posed to have been brought from some of the Continental 

 gardens into the London collections. Its management is 

 rather delicate. It should be grown in a porous and very 

 fibrous loamy soil, with a small portion of rough peat and 

 but little sand ; and the pots well drained. It may be win- 

 tered in the green-house, or in a dry, airy pit. Increased by 

 division of the root or by cuttings. {Pax. Mag. Bot, Nov.) 

 Jhj-icdcecB. 



iJHODODE'NDRON 



aprilis Herb. (Garden variety. ) A hardy shrub ; growing 4 feet high ; with pink flowers ; 

 appearing in April ; a hybrid variety ; increased by cuttings and grafting ; grown in loam and 

 peat. Bot. Reg. t.'62. 1843. 



One of the elegant hybrid productions of the Rev. Dean 

 of Manchester, from the seed of i?hododendron ponticum, 

 fertilized by the evergreen Davurian Rhododendron. The 

 flowers are of a delicate flesh color, tinted with pink, and 

 have a peculiar soft and exquisite appearance. It flowers 

 in April, from whence its name. The foliage is only mod- 

 erately large, and the head of flowers of good size. It is 

 not yet in the hands of the trade. {Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



In the collection of Hovey & Co. the following Azaleas 

 will be in bloom in February and March : 



A. variegata, ledifolia, phoenicea, Danielsmwa, speciosa, 

 speciosissima, double red, purpurea superba, formosa, pur- 

 purascens, Copei, ignescens, splendens and superbissima ; 

 besides several seedlings, raised by Mr. Feast, of Baltimore, 

 and several by Mr. Mackenzie, of Philadelphia. 



Gesner idcecE. 



ACHI'MENES 



hirsuta Lindl Hairy Achimenes. A green-house plant; growing a font high ; with rose- 

 colored flowers appearing in summer ; a native of Guatemala ; increased by offsets of the 

 roots ; grown in peat, loam and sand. Bot. Reg. t. 55. 1843. 



" Another acceptable addition to the charming genus 

 Achimenes," which will probably be as great a favorite as 

 any of the species. It approaches nearest to A. peduncu- 

 Idta, and like' that species, is disposed to bear little bulbs at 



