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color. It is highly odoriferous, and will remain in a succession of hloom 

 three or four weeks ; it is just out of bloom in our Victoria house ; it thrives 

 well in a turfy loam in a moist and shady part of a stove. While growing it 

 requires an abundance of water; when it shows symptoms of rest, moisture 

 should be in smaller proportions but never entirely withheld. Received from 

 Mr. Buist. 



PiiYSURUS argenteus. Another plant the principal attractions of which 

 reside in its foliage. These are of a pale glaucous green, netted very regu- 

 larly with silvery veins, resembling in that respect our own Rattlesnake 

 Plantain (Groodyera pabescens.) The flowers are small, white, with a black 

 line down the centre of the lip and lateral sepals, and numerously placed in 

 a conical form on a spike six or eight inches high. It thrives well in our 

 orchideous house in turfy peat ; it, does much better in a small than in a large 

 pot ; it is a very scarce plant, and generally known in the gardens as Ancecto- 

 chilus argenteus. Dr. Lindley, who is the leading authority in the matter 

 of orchideous plants, makes it a Physurus. Imported from Messrs. Low, of 

 Clapton. 



Chysis bractescens. Another Orchidea, as beautiful in its flowers as 

 the former is in its foliage. Our plant, imported from Low two years ago, is 

 just now in flower ; they appear in threes, on a stem about six inches long, 

 arising from near the base of the past season's pseudo-bulb. Each flower is 

 about two inches wide ; the column and lateral petals are white and thick, 

 and the large gibbous lip striped with a gamboge yellow. It thrives best in 

 a basket of broken charcoal, moss, and decaying wood ; and when growing, 

 loves the application of the syringe several times a day. It does not require 

 a very high temperature, from 50° to {30° doing as well as any. 



Lantana lilacina. This is a species, perhaps but a variety, with the 

 habit of L. crocea. The heads of flowers are about the size of that kind, of 

 a dull white when they first come out, afterwards changing to a fine bright 

 lilac. It is of the easiest culture, thriving in well drained pots of rich loam 

 in a warm greenhouse. It seems inclined to bloom the whole season as it 

 grows, and in that case will prove desirable as a bedding out plant. Our 

 plant was obtained last summer from Messrs. Hovey. 



Gardoquia Hookerii. This is not a new plant to our neighborhood; but 

 far rarer than it ought to be. It is a small bushy greenhouse shrub, always 

 in flower, but never profusely so ; the leaves are like box, and the flowers 

 come out in the axils about 1 J inches long, of a deep red color. It thrives 

 in sandy loam enriched with a little decayed leaf soil. Like the former, I 

 imagine it would make a good bedding out plant. Our plant was obtained 

 from Mr. Peter Mackenzie, of Philadelphia. This plant is said to be the 

 Cunila coecinea of Nuttal. Its botanical characters seem to differ widely 

 from those of our native Cunila mar iana. Its calyx, though hairy at the 

 mouth, is irregularly cleft, with unequal segments ; the upper lip of the co- 



