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MAGNOLIA OBOVATA, or Chinese Purple Magnolia. 
' This plant is justly esteemed for the uncommon richness 
‘and beauty of its flowers, which are produced in March, and 
are of a delicate purple outside, and white within. All the 
other species of Chinese Magnolias are desirable plants, but 
more particularly the Magnolia conspicua, or Chandelier 
Magnolia, whose flowers are very splendid, and are also DIR, : 
<tuced during the winter months. , 
GARDENIA FLORIDA, or Cane Spas 
This is also a justly admired plant; the bright shining 
sreen of its foliage, and the deiightful odour of its large snow 
avhite flowers, which are produced from June to December, 
must ever render it one of the most esteemed exotics. 
GORTERIA RIGENS, or Starry Scarlet Gorteria. 
This, though it never attains a large size, is, notwithstand- 
ing, one of the most showy Green-house plants, as its flowers 
are large and brilliant. Its foliage, also, possesses a singula- 
rity, the under side of each leaf being white, with a stripe of 
green. 
ROSA ODORATA, Sweet China, or Tea Scented Rose. 
This is a most delightful plant, producing a greater abun- 
dance of flowers throughout the year than any other Rose, 
which are of the must exquisite fragrance, whereas most 
other Ever bloeming Roses have little or no scent. 
-CORCHORUS JAPONICUS, or Double Japan Globe 
Flower, 
This shrub, although cultivated as a Green-house ‘Sanit 
will, nevertheless, thrive in the open garden. Inthe windows 
of a warm room, or ina Green-house, its slender branches 
are, during the months of March and April, bent down with 
the weight of its numerous flowers, of a golden yellow, which 
are produced in wreaths ; and there as scarcely a week, from 
spring to winter, that flowers may not be found on it, espe- 
cially if it is planted during that season in the open Peat 
or continued there throughout the year. 
HIBISCUS MUTABILIS, or Chinese Changeable Hibiscus. 
Tiis plant producesabundance of flowers during the month 
of November and December, which are about the size of 2 
large garden Rose, and very beautiful. One great pe- 
culiarity which macee flowers possess, is, that they change © 
