PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



capitula, and by the central florets being truly male. The generic name is given in compliment to Dr. Schoen, an" 

 excellent botanical artist." 



' ' This plant must be treated as a tender annual. Its seed should be sown in spring, in a pot or pan of light soil, 

 placed in moderate heat ; the plants, as soon as they are of sufficient size, must be transplanted singly into small pots, 

 and kept for a time in a close frame, 'admitting air gradually to harden them; and as they become larger they must be 

 shifted into larger pots, and, in order to have a greater show of flowers, four or five plants may be placed in one pot. 

 When in flower they may be placed in the greenhouse." — Botanical Magazine, t. 4560. 



Acacia lineata. A. Cunningham. A greenhouse 

 shrub, from New South Wales, with heads of yellow flowers. 

 Belongs to Leguminous plants. (Fig. 138 ; : A, a magnified 

 leaf and stipules.) 



There is a figure of this plant in the Botanical Magazine, t. 3346 ; but 

 it represents it in a glandular state very different from this. - We find it 

 to be a dwarf greenhouse shrub, flowering in March, without glands, but 

 with a grey loose hairiness. The false leaves, or phyllodes, are linear, obtuse, 

 a little hooked at the point, with a single rib running along the* middle, but 

 much nearer the upper than the lower edge. There is a very slight trace of 

 a glandular depression on the false leaves, a little above the base, neglected 

 in our figure. 



Phal^enopsis Stuartiana. This has all the appear- 

 ance of being a hybrid, and if so of natural origin. The 

 plant was discovered by Mr. Boxall, one of Messrs. Low's 

 collectors, but the exact locality has not been told. 



It may be described as intermediate in appear- 

 ance between P. amabilis and P. Schilleriana. The 

 leaves are slightly marbled like the latter, but the 

 markings disappear as they get older. The panicle 

 of flowers is much-branched and very large. In its 

 native habitat one, on a medium-sized plant, was 

 counted bearing a hundred and twenty flowers, 

 which individually were nearly as large as those of 

 P. amabilis. In form they resemble P. Schilleriana. 

 The ground-colour is ivory-white, except the lower 

 halves of the sepals, which are sulphur-yellow, thickly 

 dotted over with reddish-brown. The lip also is 

 spotted with the same colour. 



PHALiENOPSIS StUARTLANA NOBILIS. 



A distinct form of P. Stuartiana, and 

 superior to it, so far as can be judged 

 from plants only recently imported, and 

 that have not yet had time to regain near 

 their full strength — a condition in which 

 both this and P. Stuartiana were in when 

 we saw them. The white ground-colour 

 is purer, and altogether devoid of the 

 yellow tinge present on the sepals of P. Stuartiana, which throws up the beautiful spotting 

 more plainly. Both are charming additions to the lovely genus to which they belong, and 

 Messrs. Low may be congratulated on thus further adding to the numbers of sterling 

 novelties with which they have enriched the gardens of this country. 



