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pilrea plhio, double purple. This variety is not so fine as 

 many of the others. Properly it is not purple, or, if it may 

 be termed so, the color is very light, and the flower irregular. 

 Lidica pliGeniceaj rich purple and a free grower. Inclica 

 smithii of the French, and Lidica purpurea of the English^ 

 are alike, pale lilac and very profuse of flower. Indica coc- 

 cinea, bright scarlet, a superb variety, and extremely abund- 

 ant of bloom. Indica flore variegdta flowers beautifully 

 variegated, pink and white. Later itia, salmon color, fine, 

 Williainsii, bright, rich crimson. Powleii, rosy purple. 

 Prince Albert, very large, bright rosy crimson, of strong 

 growth. Maitlandiij pure white, striped with pink, dwarf 

 habit. Copeiiy bright rose. Daniehiana, bright red. Ln- 

 dica cdrnecij delicate flesh color. Lidica nova hlanc^ white, 

 with a greenish-yellow spot on the upper petals. Rid^ro pleno, 

 double red, of very erect growth. Spectahilis, rose and violet. 

 Indica eJegdns, bright rosy purple, a very profuse flowerer 

 and of a neat habit. Lndica GillingJiclmia , very large lilac, 

 and of a strong habit. Striata formosissimaj white striped 

 rose. Hnrtioigj very bright crimson. Azalea sinensis does not 

 belong to the indica tribe ; it is of a hard woody nature, flow- 

 ers of a golden yellow, in large clusters; it no doubt will prove 

 a hardy species. The varieties and sub-varieties of indica will, 

 in a few years, be so numerous that the greatest difficulty 

 will be to keep clear of those that are not decidedly distinct : 

 to obtain this object our own feeble exertions will be industri- 

 ously applied. We might have named a few other varieties, but 

 they so nearly approach some of the above, that it is better to 

 avoid them. A choice selection of the Chinese Azalea ought 

 to be in every green-house ; they are all easy of culture, and 

 bloom freely from February to May. The pots must bo 

 well drained and shaded from the sun during summer, though 

 the tops of the plants do best to have the full rays, to which 

 we have them fully exposed, and find that by such treatment 

 they are every year completely covered with their flowers and 

 grow more stiff in habit than when the whole plant is shaded. 

 They should be repotted as soon as done flowering in soil 

 No. 6 when they are flowering plants, and in soil No. 5 

 when young plants. 



Bdnksias. There are about thirty-two species, all curious 

 in flower, and handsome and various in foliage; flowers in 

 large heads of cone shape, anthers mostly green, and continue 

 a considerable time in flower; produces a cone in shape of a 



