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PAXTON'S FLOWEK GABDEN. 



species. The fronds are large and spreading, more like those of some of the most 

 elegant Ferns. The plant is one of Mr. Bull's introductions from the South Sea 

 Islands, and consequent upon the heat it receives in its native country, it will require 

 a warm house to grow in, with a considerable amount of moisture in the atmosphere ; 

 in other respects it will no doubt succeed with similar treatment to the other heat- 

 requiring species, such, for instance, as S. lsevigata. 



Stem scandent, two to three feet or more, continued by new terminal growths, regularly branched, becoming 

 bare below ; branches flat, ovate, very regularly pinnate, not decrescent to the apex, but terminating in a branchlet 

 similar to the rest ; branchlets three-sixteenths of an inch wide, simple, those of the fertile branches about one 

 inch long, set about one-eighth of an inch apart, the basal ones often forked; leaves oblong-falcate, entire, 

 the anterior base cut away, the posterior produced ; mid-rib distinct ; intermediate leaves much smaller, semi- 

 ovate acuminate parallel ; spikes slender, tetragonal, terminating the branchlets, one to two inches long. — Florist 

 and Nomologist, 1878, p. 90. 



Dianthus cruentus. Fischer. A hardy herbaceous plant, with deep rose-coloured 

 flowers. Introduced by Dr. Fischer. Flowered with Mr. Van Houtte. (Fig. 77.) 



This charming Pink has been received by Mr. Van Houtte 

 from the Botanic Garden, St. Petersburg, under the name 

 of D. cruentus. It is supposed to come from the Caucasus, 

 or from Siberia (rather distant stations it must be confessed). 

 Perhaps less brilliant than some varieties of Sweet "William 

 {D. barbatus), but quite as ornamental. The leaves form 

 tufts of light green, from which rise simple stems terminated 

 by a nearly globular flower -head, which produces from the 

 midst of a curious mixture of scarious, rusty, long-pointed 

 bracts, numerous blossoms with a violet calyx, and wedge- 

 shaped petals elegantly toothletted, resplendent with vivid 

 carmine, relieved by certain violet hairs which adorn the 

 base of each limb. Allied botanically to D. carthusianorum 

 and barbatus. — Flore des Serves, t. 488. 



Masdevallia Chelsoni. This plant is a 

 cross raised, we believe, between M. Veitchiana 

 and M. amabilis, and in appearance partakes of 

 both parents. So far as we know, it is the 

 first Masdevallia raised from seed under cultiva- 

 tion, and adds one more to the many fine Orchids 

 already raised at the Chelsea establishment. 



Petals white, with a mauve spot at the top. Lip pan- 

 durate, mauve at the border, brown at the apex, white on 

 the disk of the inner side. Column white, and a short 

 mauve streak on each side of the middle border.— Gardener's 

 Chronicle, N.S., vol. xiii., p. 554. 



Primula rosea. A lovely hardy Alpine 

 plant from Kashmir, one of the finest of all 

 Primroses. From what we saw of it in Earl 

 Dude's garden at Tortworth Court, Gloucester- 

 shire, where a large bed was filled with dense 

 masses twelve inches across, we feel sure its habit and the splendid colour of its flowers will 

 make it a universal favourite. 



Glabrous, not mealy. Leaves densely tufted, obovate-lanceolate, acute, sessile, one to two inches long, crenu- 

 late, deep green above, paler beneath, margins revolute when young. Scapes many, stout, longer than the leaves, 



