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The following are the names of a few of the best varieties of Polyanthus, 

 viz : — Alexander (Pearson,) Bang Europe (Nicholson,) Beauty of England 

 (Maud,) Defiance (Fletcher,) Exile (Crowshaw,) Earl of Lincoln (Hufton,) 

 George the Fourth (Buck,) King (Nicholson,) King Fisher (Addis,) Lord J, 

 Russell (Clegg,) Princess Royal (Colliers,) and Royal Sovereign (Gibbons.) 



The best named sorts of Cinerarias were Purity (Dobson,) a white self — - 

 Julia (Lochner,) white, very faintly tipped with light purple ; Rosalind (E, 

 G. Henderson,) white, narrowly margined with bluish purple ; Star of 

 Peckham (Ivery,) an improvement on Hammersmith Beauty, on account of 

 its increased size and denser colors ; Lord Stamford (E. G. Henderson,) 

 white tipped, purplish lilac ; Picturata (E. G. Henderson,) white tipped, 

 rosy purple ; Conqueror of Europe (Hodge ;) Beauty of Hamilton Terrace 

 (Rosher,) King of the Blues (Keynes;) Loveliness (E. G. Henderson,) 

 colors blue and white ; Marguerite d'Anjou (ditto,) crimson; Prince Arthur 

 (ditto,) shaded crimson ; also Charles Dickens and Kate Kearney. 



NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 



FLOWERED FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS SEASON, AT SPRINGBROOK. 



No. m. 



Beloperone Amherst^e — An acanthaceous plant which, like all the tribe, 

 without probably an exception, is well worthy of cultivation. The flowers, 

 individually, resemble much the old B. oblongata — in color they are a few* 

 shades lighter. Its habit of growth and manner of flowering are very dif* 

 ferent from that species; instead of the erect habit, this is in its flowering 

 shoots spreading, while the flowers, which are produced several together in 

 the axils of the leaves, are erect, and appear above the leaves. It appears to 

 be a free bloomer. Our plant was imported last year from Messrs. Lee, by 

 Mr. Cope, and is thriving well in a compost of half peat and loam, and in 

 the moist part of a dry stove, where the temperature is kept about 70 deg. 



Cantua bicolor. — This plant has a high reputation in the English papers. 

 There it is recommended for bedding out. For these two years past it has 

 been in the Philadelphia collections, but has been found difficult to manage, 

 and has, I believe, never flowered before. It is customary to treat it as a 

 stove plant, and herein I believe the error, as the order of plants it belongs 

 to — Polemonacece — is unknown in tropical countries. It is allied to the 

 Phlox and the Ipomopsis more nearly resembling the latter in the shape and 

 color of the flower, but it is nearly an inch across, and has a tube of the same 

 length, the tube yellow and the limb crimson. My plant grew remarkably 

 well last season in a shady part of a greenhouse, in burnt loam, and a little 



