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cuneifolia. India. Stove shrub ; loam and peat. — Dorstenia ceratosanthes. 

 A singular herbaceous plant from South America. " The receptacle of the 

 flower is of a very particular shape, much resembling a pair of stag's horns, 

 altogether dissimilar to every other plant." Stove ; peat earth and loam. 

 — j&'rica umbellata. Portugal; on sandy hills and dry wastes; a foot high. 

 In a cold-frame, in sandy peat. — Erica ostrina, Scarlet tube-floivered heath. 

 C. G. H. Sandy peat. — Fabricia stricta. New South Wales. Green-house; 

 loam and peat ; cuttings. — Sisyrinchium anceps. Dry hills and grass lands, 

 from Canada to Carolina. — In addition to the improvements which we have 

 suggested in our introduction to this article, we think the readers of 

 the Botanical Cabinet would be gratified to have the natural orders given, 

 as well as those of the artificial system* 



Geranidcece. By Robert Sweet, F. L. S. &c. In Numbers. 3s. 



No.LXXXIX.for May, contains 



555, to 356. — Pelargoninm Stewarts, " named in compliment to our 

 much respected friend, David Stewart, Esq., of Great Russel Street, 

 Bloomsbury, formerly superintendent of the fine establishment of the late 

 J. J. Angerstein, Esq., of Woodlands, near Blackheath, at that time the 

 most celebrated garden in the country for forcing fruits of all descriptions, 

 and for the choicest collection of the best-grown conservatory plants that 

 we ever beheld, many of which flowered there for the first time in this 

 country. To Mr. Stewart we are indebted for the first rudiments of our 

 education on the cultivation and propagation of plants, having been for 

 some time one of his pupils, and by his permission we were allowed to try 

 different experiments, which has enabled us to establish quite a different 

 system in the cultivation and propagation of plants, than any hitherto 

 used : how we have succeeded, we leave those to judge who have seen, 

 and understand the subject; though we have now quitted that employ- 

 ment for the present, for one still more agreeable to our taste, that of 

 publishing different works on botany and the cultivation of plants." 



" One of Mr. Stewart's principles was to imitate and assist nature as 

 much as possible, which principle we have always strictly adhered to, quite 

 in opposition to the generality of horticulturists." 



Otidia crithmifolia, Hokrea hedysarifolia, P. psilophyllum. 



Mo. XC.for June, contains 

 357 to 360. — Pelargonium eriocaulon, Dimacria Smithzawa, P. albinotatum 

 and basilicum. Hybrids. The first and especially the last have very brilliant- 

 coloured flowers. 



The British Floiver-Garden. By Robert Sweet, F. L. S. &c. In 8vo 

 Numbers. 5s. each. 

 No. LI. for May, contains 

 201 to 204. — yfllium neapolitanum, Neapolitan Moly; Asphodeleae. 

 Fragrant, and as handsome a species " as any in this extensive genus, of which 

 an excellent Monograph has lately been published in the Memoirs of the 

 Wernerian Xatural History Society of Edinburgh, from the pen of Mr. George 

 Don, who has recorded 139 species besides doubtful ones."— Verbena 

 ( Veneris vena, to induce love) sororia (sister), Nepaul Vervain ; Verbenacese. 

 A pretty plant, nearly related (sister dike) to the V. officinalis of Britain. 

 — Siegesbeckia droseroides, Sundew-involucred Siegesbeckia ; Composite. 

 " Its greatest beauty and singularity consists in its curious involucrum, the 

 glands of which are covered with a glutinous matter, which catches any 

 small insects that happen to alight on them." Seeds of it ripen plentifully, 

 which should be sown in heat and transplanted in the open borders. — Leo- 

 nurus (lion's tail) sibiricus, Siberian Mother-wort ; Labiatas. A hardy 

 biennial from Siberia, flowering from June to August. 



