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stove ; that is, to grow each species as it ought to be grown. The decreasing 
price of glass, however, will eventually render the erection of more houses a much 
less expensive undertaking. We would therefore suggest a separate house to be 
devoted to this family conjointly with the tribe of Gesneraceous plants, which is 
also already too extensive to allow even the choice species and varieties alone to be 
cultivated properly in the miscellaneous stove. And, let it always be remembered, 
that a few specimens well grown are ever infinitely more beautiful and pleasing 
than the myriads of half-starved plants, almost destitute of flowers and of foliage, 
which disgrace the collections of those who grasp at more than their means 
can accomplish. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR SEPTEMBER. 
Antgoza/nthus pulcher'rtmus. " One of the most beautiful of this fine genus from its 
copious and richly coloured flowers and flowering branches ; the former being bright yellow, the 
latter clothed with scarlet hairs, curiously branched on a yellow ground. It is a native," 
continues Sir William J. Hooker, " of the Swan River settlement, where it was detected by our 
indefatigable friend, Mr. James Drummond. From seeds sent by him, it has been raised by 
Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery, to whom the Royal Botanic Garden owes the possession of a 
fine plant. It has not yet, as far as I am aware, bloomed in this country, and our figure 
is taken from a dried native specimen sent by Mr. Drummond, in which, from the nature 
of the plant, and peculiarity of its vestiture, the form and colours are as well preserved as 
if seen in a living state. Perhaps in the general structure of the blossoms it comes nearest to 
A.fiavidus ; but the flowers are much shorter, and the panicle, and leaves, and clothing, are all 
very different in the two species. It loves a light sandy soil, and the protection of a good green- 
house, and will prove a highly ornamental plant to our gardens." When in flower the plant 
stands two or three feet high. The leaves are of a linear falcate form, with an acuminate 
termination, and are clothed with a dense hoariness. They are most abundant, though smaller, 
towards the bottom of the stem, gradually becoming more remote and longer upwards. Upon 
the flowering-stem the leaves again decrease in size, till it becomes a large flowering panicle, 
with lanceolate bracteas at the origin of the branchlets. There are several flowers on each 
branchlet, which, with their large size and rich yellow colour, cannot fail to prove highly 
attractive. Bot. Mag. 4180. 
Aza v lea Lmtj'iim. A handsome and fragrant garden hybrid, reared by the Hon. and Rev. 
the Dean of Manchester, in his garden at Spofforth, who gives the following account respecting 
it. It " was obtained, with others, from seed of a common Rhododendrum Po?iticum, impreg- 
nated in the greenhouse at Spofforth by pollen of Azalea. Several seedlings raised there 
perished, as well as others, by the pollen of an orange Azalea, and a multitude of the stock of 
seedlings from Rhodora Canadensis, by Azalea Pontica, of which one of the survivors, under the 
name Az. Seyvnouri, has been figured ; and also of Rhododendron arboreum, by the variety of 
Azalea called mirabilis. From the difficulty of finding any soil in the neighbourhood that would 
suit these hybrid plants, which are delicate before they have acquired strength, the soil at Highclere 
was more congenial to their growth, and some from this seed by Azalea Pontica were preserved 
there. I have one yellower than this, of which the leaves are rather more durable, and one of 
which the colour is tinged with a coppery purple. The leaves are rather more durable, broader } 
and blunter, than the leaves of Azalea Pontica ; but in this, as in almost all hybrid plants, the male 
tv P e g re atly preponderates. It is difficult to conjecture why, in expelling the purple of the female 
flower, the yellow of the male should have substituted white. The mode in which colours act in 
