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blossoms ranged round its summit. The pleasing arrangement as well as showiness of the 
blossoms, are very conspicuous features. 
Cyrtoce^ras refle'xa. At first called Hoya coriacea, but since altered to the above. It is 
blossoming freely in one of Messrs. Loddiges' stoves, and by the attractive form of its pretty 
whitish pendulous flowers, combined with the size, beauty, and healthiness of its leaves, has a very 
striking effect. 
Dendro^bium adu'ncum. a beautiful new species, which is flowering well with Messrs. 
Loddiges. It has long and rather slender upright stems ; which, however, when old, and bearing 
fresh shoots and flowers, acquire a partially drooping character. The blossoms are produced in 
short racemes from the older stems. They are about three-quarters of an inch across, white, and 
so exceedingly transparent after being expanded some time, that they have quite a gelatinous 
appearance. The column is tipped with reddish purple, which occasions a pleasing variation. 
Fu^CHSiA La'neii. Messrs. Lane, of Berkhamstead, Herts, exhibited a hybrid Fuchsia at the 
last Chiswick show, and obtained for it a silver Banksian medal. They have since sent us speci- 
mens. The habit is dwarf and close ; the leaves ample, with the elegance of the older species 
and none of the coarseness of the more modern kinds ; and the flowers are somewhat of the shape 
of the old globosa^ but more expansive, and singularly large. Their sepals are bright crimson, 
and the petals darker, or of a light purplish hue. It is one of the best hybrids we have seen. 
Gailla'rdia corona^ta. This is a very handsome border plant, with showy reddish brown 
flowers, the edges of which have an orange tint. It is blooming both in the greenhouse and the 
open ground at Messrs. Youngs', Epsom ; who have also a superior variety of C. bicolor, in which 
the flowers are very considerably larger than in the species. 
Gentia'na septe'mfida ; var. cauca'sica. The beautiful G. septemfida was figured and highly 
recommended in our last volume. It is a most ornamental species, and the present variety is 
distinguishable from it by its greater dwarfness, by the far closer arrangement of its leaves, and 
its slightly deeper blue flowers. It is a vei'y lovely little object, at this time, in the nursery of 
Messrs. Young, Epsom. 
LoA^sA Herbe'rtii. a valuable hybrid, between L. lateritia and L. Pentlandica. It has 
the climbing habit of the former, but considerably modified, and the leaves and flowers are much 
finer than those of L. lateritia. Messrs. Henderson are flowering it in a greenhouse, and it is 
evidently superior to both its parents. 
Loa'sa volu'bilis. Introduced to this country many years ago, and subsequently lost. It has 
now again been obtained by Mr. Low, of Clapton, from Chili. The leaves are irregularly divided, 
nearly smooth, and stingless, while the flowers are of a lively yellow, and exceedingly pretty. It 
is a climbing or twining plant, and deserves to be cultivated in every garden. 
OPERATIONS FOR AUGUST. 
Towards the decline of the present month, when the newly-added wood of greenhouse shrubs 
is tolerably hardened, it will be advisable to expose the more robust of them to the open air for 
a month or six weeks, in order still further to ripen their developments, and prepare them for 
flowering finely in the following spring. We have lately put forth an article in which the 
in judiciousness of turning them out at an earlier period is placed in a clear light, and the time 
will soon arrive which we recommended in preference to that usually chosen for effecting that 
exposure. 
Prior to removing them entirely from the greenhouse, its lights or sashes should be left 
widely open for a week or a fortnight (closing them only during heavy rains and rough winds,) 
and gradually taken away altogether. This will inure the plants to the change, and save their 
leaves from being scorched, or from acquiring a yellowish or brownish unhealthy tinge. When 
finally taken out, they ought not to be huddled together in close groups, as is the common prac- 
tice, but set at a sufficient distance from each other to receive the full advantage of light and 
air. The finer-rooted species, whose branches do not shade the soil in which they are growing, 
