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fully coloured, and being of good substance, they last for 

 several months in full beauty. They are all excellent plants 

 for exhibition purposes, and should be grown in every collec- 

 tion. The soil best adapted for their culture is good sandy 

 peat, with a little turfy loam added ; drainage must be kept in 

 perfect order, and water carefully given, for these beautiful 

 plants are somewhat difficult to manage. 



Q. finibriata. — This rare and very pretty species is a 

 small bushy plant, and produces its bell-shaped involucres 

 in great profusion, which are of a beautiful rose colour, 

 about an inch long, and strongly fringed round the mar- 

 gins. This will no doubt make a useful exhibition plant, 

 and be a charming companion for the other two species. It 

 blooms in May and June. Native of South-West Australia. 



G. Fuchsioides. — ^A very free-growing species, producing 

 red branches and linear-oblong leaves, which are about an 

 inch long, dark green above, and paler below. It produces 

 abundance of its deep red bell-shaped involucres during the 

 spring months, which remain a long time in full beauty. 

 Native of Australia. 



G. tulipijera. — This is the finest species with which we 

 are acquainted, and is indispensable as a flowering greenhouse 

 plant. The leaves are about an inch long, thick and fleshy, 

 oblong in shape, and ciliated at the edges, the upper sur- 

 face dark green, pale below ; the pendulous boll-shaped in- 

 volucres are large and freely produced, the ground colour 

 being pale straw, beautifully streaked and flaked with crimson. 

 It blooms during spring and early summer, and remains in 

 perfection a very long time. Native of Swan Kiver. 



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These are hardy Leguminous greenhouse shrubs, of dwarf 

 compact habit, and of great beauty when in flower. As the 



