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from Messrs. Lee of the Hammersmith nurseries, by Mr. Cope. Its 

 only fault seemed to be a tendency to grow "long legged." It 

 will take some art to get a good specimen of it ; the flowers are of 

 a deep crimson color, and they come out continually as the plant 

 grows ; I consider it well worth growing ; it does well with me ra- 

 ther " under-potted," in a soil composed of turfy peat with a little 

 loam, and in a stove at a temperature of 75°, exposed to the full 

 sun. 



Bouvardia letantha — A great addition to this pretty family of 

 plants. The individual flowers are similar to the old B. triphylla, 

 but the habit and inflorescence are very peculiar ; the leaves are 

 large, roundish, and very rough, and the flowers come out in large 

 panicles at the end of the young shoots. After the first set of flow- 

 ers are faded fresh ones come out from the next buds beneath ; my 

 plant has been thus in a successive state of flowering for two months, 

 without the appearance of ceasing yet. It was obtained from the 

 original imported by Messrs. Hogg, of New York, last spring; it did 

 not stop growing till some of the shoots were three feet long ; but I 

 believe another specimen has flowered in ofte of our Philadelphia 

 collections in a much dwarfer state. It thrives well with me in a 

 soil composed of burnt loam and sharp sand, in a shady part of a 

 light greenhouse ; it has been flowering in a dry stove with the Ja- 

 tropha. 



SiPHOCAMPYixs microstoma — A Loheliaceous plant of much beauty. 

 The flowers are twice the size of the old S. bicolor, and of a rich 

 purplish crimson; they do not come out in the axils of each leaf sin- 

 gly, as in the old species, but are collected into heads. The plant 

 is not such a strong grower ; ours was imported last season by Mr., 

 Cope, from Messrs. Loddiges, of London, and does well in a compost 

 of burnt loam, sharp sand, and a little peat. It is growing and 

 blooming freely in a light stove at a temperature of 70 Q 



Angrcecum bilobum — An orchideous plant, imported by Mr. Cope 

 last season, from Messrs. Loddiges. It flowered lately in our orchid- 

 eous house. It is by no means a showy kind, each flower being 

 about half an inch across, of a pure waxy white, and having a tail 

 about two inches in length ; the flowers are in short spikes but a few 

 inches in length. The lover of beauty will be pleased with it, not- 

 withstanding the small growth of the plant and its want of showiness. 



