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V^)more observable. In spring plants are deprived of that genial warmth pal 

 U so favorable to their growth, hence vegetation is slow of action. c (j 



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Every shower that falls upon such a soil during summer checks \ 

 rather than stimulates from the subsequent cold produced from evapo- 

 ration of the water. Solanum Tuberosum. 



Notices ©fa few Mew and Kare Plants, 



Flowered this season for the first time, at Springbrook : 



Crowe a latifolia. — A very pretty Rutaceous plant imported from 

 Messrs. Loddiges, by Mr. Cope, The flowers are of a rosy waxy 

 purple, about half an inch across, and come out singly from the axil 

 of each leaf on the young shoots. The leaves are not so long or 

 broad as the old C. saligna^ but are of a more shining green. Our 

 plant is at this time about fifteen inches high and nine inches across, 

 ft commenced to bloom in September; continues to produce flowers 

 abundantly, and will probably for two months more. It thrives well 

 with me in a soil composed of the principal part peat, with the re- 

 mainder of equal parts sharp sand, loam and leaf mould ; I keep it 

 in a greenhouse, kept rather close, and shaded from the direct rays of 

 the sun. 



Oldexlaxdia Deppei — A Cinchonaceous shrub, very nearly allied 

 to Pentas botanically, but very different in general appearance — its 

 chief recommendation consists in its ever blooming property. We 

 received our plant just struck from the original, imported through 

 Messrs. Hogg of New York, last June ; it was then in bloom, and has 

 continued ever since increasing in profusion with its age. Each 

 flower is very small, but they come out in about four or live together, 

 and are of the purest white. This plant is now about one foot high, 

 by the same in diameter. It does well in a soil composed entirely 

 of burnt loam and sharp sand, in the same house, and under the same 

 circumstances as the Crowea. 



Eraxthe3il t 3I Se^iperflorexs — A beautiful species belonging to 

 the very essential family of Acanthacese. Our plant, was imported 

 from Messrs. Lee, of the Hammersmith Nurseries, London, by Mr. 

 Cope, and is considered one of the best introductions of the season.—- 

 The flowers come out in long spikes, most profusely, rather small, but 

 of a fair white. The leaves have the prettiest appearance of any of 

 the family, being of a deep glassy green. The plant is growing in a 

 peaty soil, mixed with a little well decayed leaf mould and sand, but 

 it will no doubt thrive in a loamy soil. It is blooming in a dry stove 

 kept about 70°, and exposed to the full sun. 



1pqm;ea ficifolta. — A Convolvulaceous plant, which has also 

 ^ flowered in other Philadelphia collections. We received ours in the 

 !^ spring, from Messrs. Hovey, of Boston. The leaves, as the name^ 



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