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and ocasionally assisting it by watering with liquid manure, and stopping the shoots 
to increase their numbers. Once formed, they may be continued in a healthy state 
for several years by renewing the soil and occasionally administering liquid manure, 
but the most productive plants are usually those about four or five years old. A 
soil consisting of loam and peat, in the proportion of two of the former to one of the 
latter, is most suitable. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
FEBRUARY. 
Acuime'nes grandiflo^ra. It appears from the Linnsea, that this fine stove plant was first 
found by Messrs. Dieppe and Schiede in Mexico, growing upon shady rocks of the Barranca de 
Tioselos, near the Hacienda de la Laguna, and was described by them as " a most beautiful little 
plant, attracting attention by its large violet purple flowers and green leaves, stained with purple 
on the underside." There is another fine species known, but not yet imported, with flowers similar 
to those of A. longiflora, but having a long spur attached to the base of the corolla tube. It was 
discovered by Mr. Hartweg between Zitaquara and the Hacienda de Laureles ; and, like the 
present one, also growing in shady places. It is called A. patens, (See Vol. X. 145.) Bot. 
Reg., 11. 
Ae'rides odora'tum. This now well-known orchidaceous plant, was primarily discovered by 
Loureiro in China and Cochinchina, and forms the type of the genus. It was received from China 
at the Kew Gardens in 1800, through Sir Joseph Banks, and subsequently Drs. Roxburgh 
and Wallich forwarded specimens from Dacca and Sylhet in the East Indies. The drooping 
spikes are particularly interesting for their numerous delicate and gratefully fragrant blossoms. 
Bot. Mag., 4139.° 
Be'rberis trifolia'ta. " This very rare and beautiful species was found in Mexico by Mr. 
Hartweg, near the Hacienda del Espiritu Santo, on the road from Zacatecas to San Luis de Potosi, 
an immense plain occupied chiefly by Opuntias, stunted plants of Prosopis dulcis, and Yuccas. It 
covered large tracts of country ; the people call it Acrito, and the fruit was much eaten by children. 
Mr. Hartweg did not see it in flower. Its sessile ternate holly-like leaflets, beautifully marbled 
with pale blue and dull green, are entirely different from anything among the pinnated Berberries 
hitherto discovered ; and, it may be added, are much more handsome. In the Garden of the 
Horticultural Society, it forms a dwarf spreading evergreen shrub, growing freely in a rich sandy 
loam, and rather dry situation. It has stood two winters planted against a south wall, and seems 
to be about as hardy as Berberis fascicularis. It may be increased in various ways : by layering, 
by cuttings, or by seeds ; but when the kind is rare, like the present, grafting is the most certain 
and safest way ; the grafting may be performed in the ordinary way in March or April, and the 
bes tstock for working it upon is B. aquifolium. When grafted, it should be placed in a cold pit 
or frame, kept close and rather damp. It flowers freely in April and May." — Bot. Reg., 10. 
Cryptade'nia uniflo'ra. " Among the handsomest of the Linnsean genus Passerina, were 
three species, the present, P. grandijiora, and P. ciliata, which, in habit, as well as in essential 
character, differed considerably from the others. These, Professor Meisner has wisely separated 
from Passerina, and named Cryptadenia, from the presence of eight glands concealed within the 
tube of the floral envelope, and alternating with the eight stamens. All are natives of the Cape. 
The present species, though sufficiently known in Herbaria, is probably rare in gardens, though well- 
deserving of a place on account of the beauty of its copious blossoms, and the long time the plant con- 
tinues in blow. It has, however, been cultivated at Kew since 1759. It flowers there in the early 
summer months, in an airy part of the greenhouse." It is a small plant, with twiggy branches 
and linear leaves, bearing considerable resemblance to the heath or Epacris tribe. The flowers, 
however, are very different, not unlike the aspect of some of the Boronias, but consisting of a tube 
