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NEW AND RARE PLANTS 
IN FLOWER IN THE LEADING NURSERIES AND PRIVATE GARDENS IN 
THE VICINITY OF LONDON. 
Messrs. Henderson's, Pine-Apple Place. Pentstemon Cobcea. This rare 
and highly beautiful species of Pentstemon is now flowering in great perfection, and 
the great size and peculiar delicacy of its flowers render it an object of great interest 
in the flower garden, although, from the great difficulty which there appears to be in 
cultivating it, it is likely for some time to be a scarce and valuable plant. Malva 
Munroiana. This is a new and very pretty species of Malva, and as it is of a dwarf 
shrubby habit, and flowers very profusely, it will prove a decided acquisition to any 
collection ; it will no doubt thrive well if planted out in the open air, but if kept as 
a greenhouse plant it will have a very ornamental appearance. Eutoca viscida. 
This is one of the best of those dehg-htfal annuals that have been introduced into 
this country by the late Mr. Douglas ; its brilliant blue flowers, the length of time 
it remains in flower, and their great abundance and constant succession, render it 
worthy of a conspicuous place in the flower garden or pleasure ground. Potentilla 
Garneriana. This is a new^ plant of great interest ; the flowers are of a sulphur 
colour, with a rich brown spot at the base of each petal, and as it is of a trailing 
habit, it is well adapted for growing on rock work, although it has by no means an 
uninteresting appearance on a flower bed or border. Calochortus venustus and 
luteus. These two beautiful bulbs are somewhat rare and extremely handsome, 
especially the former, and make a most charming feature in the flower garden in the 
summer months. The whole of the above are now finely in flower at the nursery 
of Messrs. Henderson. 
Mr. Knight's, Chelsea. Stanhopea insignis. Among the many plants in 
the extensive natural order Orchidese, which combine the curious with the beautiful, 
perhaps none possess both these properties in a higher degree than the plant we 
are now noticing, and as it is of easy culture, and flowers very freely, no collection 
should be destitute of it. It is now most beautifully in flower at the above nursery, 
and it may be well here to say that this extraordinary plant, together with S, 
oculata^ ehurnea, <^c., succeed best when grown in a wire or wooden basket, in 
preference to a pot, provided these wires or this wood be placed at the distance of 
an inch and a half from each other, as from the natural tendency of the flowers to 
turn downwards, they are apt to get smothered in a pot, while they would get through 
between the wires of a basket; but if the plants are elevated on soil to six inches 
above the level of a pot, this would do equally well, although they certainly show 
their curious flowers better when suspended in a basket from the roof of the house. 
Antirrhinum caryophylloides. This is, without exception, the finest and most 
beautiful species of this genus yet known in this country, and when in flower 
(which it now is at the above nursery,) possesses all the beauty of a fine carnation, 
from which circumstance it takes its specific name ; no collection, however limited, 
should be without it, as it will do well either in the open border or in the green- 
house. NuitalUa cordata. This is a new and very pretty herbaceous plant, with 
fine pink flowers, which bear some resemblance (and in fact are nearly allied) to a 
