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sand. Towards winter it was kept rather drier than is customary with such 

 plants, and it has lately bloomed, though not freely. I should be glad to 

 learn whether others had been more successful, and if so, their mode of 

 treatment. There are several names in existence, some saying they belong 

 to distinct varieties ; others that they are synonymous. Our plant w T as 

 obtained from Mr. Buist. 



Ixora ixcarxata. — This plant I have grown and flowered successfully this 

 season. From Mr. Low, Mr. Cope imported it one year ago. The flowers 

 are in heads as large as those of I. coccinea, but are of a 'deep pink or 

 flesh color ; the leaves are larger, and the growth of the plant altogether 

 stronger. My plant is two years old, growing in a mixture of peat, loam, 

 and chopped moss, and kept in a strong stove heat At the present time it 

 is about two feet high, and has ten of its beautiful heads expanded at once. 

 It is a fine subject for a " specimen plant." 



Rhodostemma gardexioides. — A Cinchonaceous plant, imported last 

 summer from Messrs. Lee, of London, by Mr. Cope. Though it is a free 

 bloomer, each flower delicately beautiful, and highly odoriferous, I fear it 

 will never become popular. The flowers seem to last but a few hours, and 

 though there is scarcely a day without a flower open, the quantity of its 

 dark shining green foliage seems very over-proportionate to the quantity of 

 flowers ever open at any one time ; each flower is about the size and shape 

 of a Pentas carnea, but with a longer tube, erect, and of a rosy white. It 

 does remarkably well in sandy peat, under-potted, and in a strong heat, in 

 a moist stove. 



Jasmixum xudiflorum. — This Jessamine has the peculiarity of producing 

 its flowers before the leaves, and are rather larger than J. revolutum ; but 

 are not of so bright a yellow. Its advantages are in blooming much 

 earlier, and at a season when yellow flowers are scarce in our conservatories ; 

 J. revolutum seldom being in bloom before March, whilst this species will 

 probably bloom the whole winter. It is now in several collections — our 

 plant was obtained last spring from Mr. Buist. It is one of those plants 

 that will grow however badly treated. 



iEscHYXAXTHirs pulcher. — I have seen most of the kinds of this truly 

 beautiful tribe that have flowered in Philadelphia, and consider this by far 

 the best. The flowers are of a bright scarlet, full two inches long, and come 

 out principally in clusters of six or eight at the end of the branches. Our 

 plant was obtained last spring from Messrs. Hogg of New York, though I 

 afterwards learned it had been previously imported into Philadelphia by 

 Mr. Buist. It is considered a shy bloomer ; but with me it blooms and 

 grows beautifully under the following treatment : Last June it was potted 

 in equal parts of burnt loam, peat, and cut moss, and grown till Septem- 



