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native places, cassias are often among the most -beautiful bushes of the 

 forest, covered with myriads of flowers of the richest yellow, and scarcely 

 inferior in the gracefulness of their foliage to the Mimosa itself; yet, in our 

 gardens, they are generally unsightly and neglected : a circumstance which 

 arises entirely out of our bad or imperfect cultivation. We grow them in 

 a pot, where they are suffered to languish ; or, if they attempt to push vigor- 

 ously, the pruning-knife is freely employed to restrain them within such a 

 space as the gardener can afford. They will not bear pruning ; they require 

 plenty of space to grow, and encouragement rather than restraint. If a 

 more liberal and judicious management were adopted, many species, parti- 

 cularly this, would amply repay the care of the cultivator." — Convolvulus 

 farinosus, M.ealy-ste?nmed Convolvulus. From Madeira in 1777. — Jstragalus 

 succulentus. Originally found by Dr. Richardson in Arctic America. An 

 " unpretending " hardy perennial, growing freely in peat, and producing 

 purple flowers in June. — 1325. to be explained in next number. — Pinum 

 mexicanum. A pretty half-hardy perennial, with yellow flowers, and pro- 

 bably to be propagated by cuttings. — Erythrina carnea. From the hottest 

 parts of South America, and rather handsome while in flower. 



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Parts Chill, and CLIV.for January and February, contain 

 1521 to 1540. — -Erica exposita. — Cotoneaster affinis. A fine robust 

 shrub from Nepal, 6 ft. high, and well clothed with branches, with white 

 flowers in May or June. — (/xalis Martiz. From Mexico, by Mr. Barclay j 

 the specific name, " in honour of that celebrated traveller and botanist Von 

 Martius." — Cactus gibbosa, Polygonum viviparum, Grewwz occidentalis, 

 Geum coccineum, Isotoma axillaris, Thunbergia capensis, Phymus azori- 

 cus. — Cotoneaster melanocarpa. From the south of Russia. — Barbacenia 

 purpurea. A beautiful little stove plant from Brazil. — Ribes fragrans. 

 Yellow flowers, and hardy. — Potentiila alba ; Strelitzia reginae, Plumbago 

 rhomboidea, Epidendrum patens. — Gonolobus grandiflorus. A green- 

 house climber, of easy culture, with greenish-yellow flowers during the sum- 

 mer and autumn. — Rudbeckia serotina. A hardy perennial from Louisiana, 

 with reddish-purple flowers in September and October. Easy culture. — ■ 

 Picus ouercifolia. " A small species, fruiting at less than 2 ft. high ; the 

 leaves and whole appearance are so much like an oak as to amount almost 

 to a deception at a little distance." Stove and cuttings. 



Part CLV.for March, contains 

 1541 to 1550.- — Penstemon gracilis, Pyrola chlorantha, Pinum angusti- 

 folium, Jcacia undulasfolia, Fuchsia microphylla, Argemdne grandiflora. — 

 Herbert^ pulchella ; Prideae. A pretty little green-house bulb. — Pxia 

 viridiflora. " The flowers are exceedingly beautiful ; they are of a most 

 soft and agreeable, but very unusual, colour;" bluish-green petals, of a 

 deep purple, black at the base. — Piospyros raccinioides. A neat little 

 myrtle-like green-house plant. — Ferbena pulchella. 



Part CLVI.for April, contains 

 1551 to 1560. — O'xalis papilionacea, Daviesz'a, genistoides, Commelina 

 undulata, Astroloma humifusam. — Magnolia piimila. Introduced from 

 China in 1790, by Mi*. Slater, the early patron of Mr. Main. — Macradenia 

 lutescens ; Orchideee. Stove. — Calceolaria arachndidea. From Chile, 

 where it is used in dyeing. Flowers purple ; green-house. — Liparis elata ; 

 Orchideae. Stove. — Psoralea bracteata. A green-house shrub, from the 

 Cape. — Tradescantia crassula. 



Part CL VII. for May, contains 

 1561 to 1570. — Kleinia suffruticosa. From Mexico to the Paris garden, 



