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moisture on the upper surface of the stone, however moist it 

 may have been below. If the Arbroath pavement, therefore, 

 resist the frost as well as the Yorkshire pavement, it is unques- 

 tionably better than any other now in use for kitchen-garden 

 walks ; w^e are certain it is so for walks in conservatories. 



We do not recommend the use of flagstone for garden walks, 

 or walks in pleasure-grounds, indiscriminately ; though we are 

 persuaded it might often be used in both cases, as well as in 

 kitchen-gardens. In the case of flower-gardens, where there was 

 not a broad turf edging to the walks, there would require to be 

 an edging of stone, of brick, of box, or flowers ; or, at all events, 

 an edging of some sort, in order to give a proper artistical finish. 

 In the case of walks through pleasure-ground, the turf edging 

 would have a better effect than in the case of gravel walks, be- 

 cause the grass might at all times cover the edging in such a 

 manner as never to require paring with the spade, but only clip- 

 ping ; by w^hich means one of the greatest defects of modern 

 pleasure-ground walks might be avoided, that of showing a raw 

 line of earth between the gravel and the grass. 



Art. VII. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of newly introduced 

 Plants, and of Plants of Interest previously in our Gardens, supple- 

 mentary to the latest Editions of the " Encyclopcedia of Plants," 

 and of the " Hortus Britannicus." 



Curtis' s Botanical Magazine ; in month]}' numbers, each containing 

 eight Plates ; 35. 6d. coloured, S^. plain. Edited by Dr. Hooker, 

 King's Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. 



Edwards's BotaJiical Register ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 eight plates; 45. coloured, 35. plain. Edited by Dr. Lindley, 

 Professor of Botany in the London University. 



Sweet's British FloiKer- Garden ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 four plates ; 35. coloured, 2s. 3d. plain. Edited by David Don, 

 Esq., Librarian to the Linnaean Society. 



Embryo Dicotyledonous : Corolla Polypetalous. 

 XXIV. M-alvdcecE. 



2023a AEVTILON. (A name applied, by Arabian physicians, to a plant analogous to the marsh- 



mallow; and adopted, by modern botanists, for a genus of the same 

 family. — D. Don.) 16. 8. Sp. 36. — 

 tl8C91 pulch^Uum Swt. pretty afe'i_J fra 8 sp W N. S. Wales 1821. C p.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.287. 

 Sjnonymes : Sida (section AbhtUon) pulchella Bonp., Loudon's Hort. Brit. No. 18091. ; Abiitilon 

 pulchellum Sweet, in his Hort. Brit. ed. 2., Hooker, in Bot. Mag. 2753. 



An upright, branching shrub, 6 ft. to 8 ft. high : bark of a 

 dark olive colour ; branches twiggy, tough, and flexible ; leaves 

 deciduous, cordate-oblong, IJ in. long, crenate, sparingly 

 clothed, as ai'e the young branches, with starry pubescence. 

 Flowers, produced in great abundance, disposed in axillary 



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