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found the plants to present a very showy appearance; this, 

 however, is unnecessary, unless the amateur has leisure time, 

 and wishes to indulge in such fancy work: to look well, it 

 must be done neatly, and the plants often looked over, and 

 the stems tied up with fine bass or grass matting. 



In this manner the plants are rendered the gayest't)bjects 

 of the green-house or parlor, blooming abundantly from March 

 to June. The plants might be then turned out into the bor- 

 der, where they will continue to flower all summer. 



Art. IV. Floricultural and Botanical .Kotices of new Plants 

 figured in foreign periodicals; with Remarks on those re- 

 cently introduced to^ or originated in, American gardens^ 

 and additional information upon plants already in cultivation. 



Edwards^s Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Garden 

 and Shrubbery. Each number containing from six to eight 

 plates, with additional miscellaneous intoi^mation, relative to 

 new Plants. In monthly numbers; 3s. plain, 3s, 6d. colored, 



Paxtoji's Magazine of Botany , and Register of Flowering Plants. 

 Each number containing four colored plates. Monthly. 2s. 6d. 

 each. Edited by J. Paxton, gardener to the Duke of Devon- 

 shire. 



The Gardener's Gazette, and Weekly Journal of Science and 

 Literature. Weekly; price Gd. each. 



The Gardener's Chronicle, a stamped newspaper of Rural Econ- 

 omy and General News. Edited by Prof. Lindley. Weekly. 

 Price 6d. each. 



Floricultural and Botanical Intelligence. — Thunbergh ald- 

 ta var. aurantiaca. — We have now in flower a few plants of 

 this new and most beautiful variety of the thunbergia. The 

 plants were raised from seeds sown in May, and though yet 

 small, have commenced flowering. The flowers are of the 

 same size and shape as the alata, but in the place of the deli- 

 cate buff color of that species, they are of a bright, rich, 

 shining orange, the surface of the petals having a glittering 



