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Tapeinotes Carolina.— a beautiful G-esneria- 

 ceous shrub with ornamental leaves and handsome 

 white flowers. It will be a valuable plant for the 

 stove and for exhibition. 



Angrcecum citratum, — This pretty orchid is a 

 native of Madagascar, whence it has been obtained 

 by Messrs. Yeitch. The flowers are closely set on 

 a raceme three to five inches long ; they are prim- 

 rose white. 



Impatiens latifolia, — An Indian perennial 

 balsam, with large rosy purple flowers. 



Clavija ruLGENS. — A handsome myrsinaceous 

 plant from South America. The trunk is short, the 

 leaves ten to fourteen inches long, and the flowers 

 numerous on racemes four or five inches long ; they 

 are deep orange-red with yellow discs. 



Mesospinidium sanguineum.— a pretty orchid, 

 with nodding racemes in the way of Rodriguesia 

 secunda, but larger and handsomer. It has been 

 long known, but has recently been obtained and cul- 

 tivated by Messrs. Backhouse, of York. " It ap- 

 pears to be quite at home in what may conveniently 

 be termed the Peruvian house, as meant to include 

 the coolest and dampest section of temperate orchids, 

 while the Mexican house would indicate a climate 

 somewhat warmer and drier than the last, but still 

 cool." 



Barleria Gibsoni. — A pretty acanthaceous 

 shrub from Central India ; it is of neat habit, and 

 produces handsome purple flowers. 



Pleroma sarmentosa. — A superb species, well 

 adapted for greenhouse culture ; the flowers are 

 numerous and large ; the color deep violet shading 

 to cobalt blue. 



Sarcanthus erinaceous. — An exceedingly pret- 

 ty orchid, producing numerous racemes of minute 

 flowers, which are primrose-white touched with 

 yellow ; the lip rosy pink. 



SiPHOCAMPYLUS HuMBOLDTiANUS.— A elegant 

 plant with bright green ovate leaves, and large tu- 

 bular flowers of bright orange-red color. 



LoASA TRICOLOR. — Another Mexican annual in- 

 troduced to the United States last spring. The 

 flowers are pretty but the habit is coarse, and it has 

 a nasty way of stinging badly which forbids it ever 

 being a favorite. 



Chrysanthemums.— How Mr. Broome grows 

 them : 



' 'The following is the method adopted by me in the 



culture of large varieties in five-inch pots, from cut- 

 tings in June : — Last year I purchased all Mr. Sal- 

 ter's and Mr. Bird's new varieties. They were de- 

 livered to me in May, and I planted them out in 

 the borders on receiving them, and allowed them to 

 become naturalized to the smoky atmosphere for 

 three weeks, which brought them up to the first 

 week in June. I then took the tops off" 3 inches 

 long, and put the cuttings into 60-sized pots, one in 

 each pot, draining the pot with a little cocoa-nut 

 fibre, and filling up with mould composed of half 

 light loam and half silver sand. I then plunged 

 the pots in the front of a Cucumber-frame, of the 

 temperature of new milk, and shaded for a fort- 

 night, giving a little watering occasionally. By the 

 1st of July they were well rooted. I then repotted 

 them into five-inch pots drained with cocoa-nut 

 fibre, the compost being two-thirds fibrous maiden 

 loam from Epping Forest, one-third rotten dung, 

 and one-third decayed leaf mould, pressing the 

 mould firmly round the sides of the pot. I then 

 put them in a cold frame for nine days with a little 

 air to harden them off", and afterwards removed them 

 to a sheltered, sunny spot for three weeks attend- 

 ing to the watering, and every evening syringing 

 the foliage to wash off the fallen soot, and keep off 

 insects. 



At the end of three weeks I plunged them three 

 parts down in the front of the border, making the 

 hole much deeper than the pot in order to obtain a 

 free drainage. I then commenced giving weak 

 liquid manure, composed of horse, sheep, and cow 

 dung, all mixed together in a tub, and this I con- 

 tinued to follow up till they showed the color of the 

 flower. As soon as they began to show and throw 

 out their side shoots I picked these out. and continued 

 to do so till they showed their flower-bud, which was 

 in the end of August. When the bud was properly 

 formed I took off the side shoots on each side of the 

 bud, where the bud looked healthy and promising ; 

 but I was obliged to let several go on to the second 

 shoot. These did not bloom quite so early, but all 

 did very well. The average height was 18 inches, 

 with healthy foHage to the rim of the pot, and the 

 blooms as perfect and nearly as large as those plants 

 in the borders with unlimited space for growth. 

 They bloomed in the first week in November, and 

 attracted more notice than all the other flowers on 

 account of the short foliage. — Gard. Weekly. 



Like does not Produce Like. — By a wise ordi- 

 nance it is ruled, that amongst living beings like 

 shall never produce its exact Hke ; that as no two 

 circumstances in time' or place are absolutely syn- 



