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Asparagus pltjmostts. Combined with its excellence as a culinary vegetable, we 

 have few more elegant things than Asparagus officinalis, the ordinary cultivated plant 

 of our gardens, to which the present subject is allied, and is undoubtedly one of the 

 most graceful and beautiful fine-leaved plants that have made their appearance in this 

 country. It was introduced to the Chelsea Nurseries (Messrs. Veitch) from Natal by 

 Mr. Mudd. The country from whence it comes points to its requirements in cultivation 

 being those of an ordinary greenhouse as to temperature, air, &c. Peat or loam will 

 doubtless answer for it, mixed with enough sand to keep it open. 



A climbing under-shrub, with very numerous, slender, glabrous, green spreading branches. The true leaves 

 are in the form of minute deltoid scales, with an acute ultimately reflexed point. The cladodes, or false leaves, 

 are grouped in tufts ; each one is from one-eighth to one-fourth of an inch long, bristle-shaped and finely pointed. — 

 Gardeners Chronicle, N.S., vol. ix., p. 527. 



Arms r a Qliveri. A very handsome cool stove or intermediate temperature shrub, 

 from Costa Rica, introduced by Messrs. Veitch, with whom it has flowered, and turns out to 

 be the handsomest of the species. It is of robust habit, the branches and leaves bright 

 green, and altogether a very desirable plant, particularly adapted for cultivation by those who 

 do not care to grow such things as are only to be had in good condition under a high 

 temperature. 



A robust, green shrub, everywhere quite glabrous, with bright green branches and foliage. Leaves shortly, stoutly 

 petioled, reflexed, five to seven inches long, oblanceolate, acuminate, narrowed into the petiole, obscurely toothed, 

 many-nerved, rather membranous; mid-rib thick ; glands numerous, linear- oblong, brown, disposed transversely. 

 Inflorescence of numerous peduncled corymbs, disposed in a large terminal dense head, four to five inches in 

 diameter ; peduncles and pedicles of a fine red-purple colour ; bracts oblong, caducus. Flowers over half an inch in 

 diameter, of a fine rose-purple colour, with white and golden-yellow anthers ; calyx campanulate ; lobes ovate, obtuse, or 

 erose at the apex, marked with linear glands ; corolla-lobes orbicular- ovate, subacute, also marked with linear glands. 

 Stamens decimate. Filament very short, pubescent at the base. Anthers curved, ovate-lanceolate, opening by two pores 

 at the summit. Ovary glabrous. Style rather short, subulate —Botanical Magazine, 6357. 



Anthtjriltm Scherzerianijm Wardii. A magnificent variety of the well-known 

 A. Scherzerianum, with immense spathes, in length about that of ordinary good forms 

 of this plant, but very much broader. There is no difference in the size or shape of the 

 spadix or in the general colour of the flower; but amongst the various forms of this 

 Anthurium that have appeared this is probably the finest. Another desirable property 

 existent in it is that the spathes lay flat when fully expanded, and not curled, as many 

 are, and which detracts much from their appearance. Like others of the same species, it 

 grows well in an intermediate temperature, with plenty of light, and moisture to the 

 roots, and a little shade when the sun is powerful. The best material in which to grow 

 these plants is good orchid peat and chopped sphagnum, in about equal parts, with broken 

 pot-shreds and a little sand. 



Tupa crass EC AU L J s . Hooker {alias Siphoeampylus canus, of the Belgian Gardens). 

 A Brazilian greenhouse Lobeliad, of little interest, with long serrated leaves, hoary under- 

 neath, and dull yellowish-red flowers. Blooms in summer and autumn. Introduced by 

 M. Makoy of Liege. 



Our plants are nearly three feet high, and exhibit a stout but woolly or cobwebby stem, leafy at the top, some- 

 thing after the manner of the Daphne Laureola. Leaves soft, four to six inches long, patent or deflexed, lanceolate or 

 broad-lanceolate, acute, serrated, tapering at the base into a short foot-stalk, dark green and slightly downy above, 

 tomentose and hoary beneath. Peduncles solitary, one to two inches long, woolly. Calyx woolly, the limb of five 



