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NOTICES OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
and K. Marryatii are showing- flower, and are both rare as well as beautiful species, 
and are deserving- of notice not only on account of the beauty of their flowers, but 
as the foliag-e is remarkably fine. Gesneria oblongate, which has been in flower for 
several months, is still covered with flowers, and to all collections of stove plants 
this would be a decided acquisition ; it has bright scarlet flowers, but, unlike some of 
the other species, the mouth of its tubular corolla expands all round, and is beauti- 
fully spotted with dark brown spots. 
NOTICES ON THE CULTURE OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS IN THE PRINCIPAL 
PRIVATE GARDENS AND NURSERIES IN THE VICINITY OF LONDON. 
On grafting- Epiphylium speciosum and E. Ackermannii on Cereus spe- 
ciosissimus, — Having- in a former number of the Magazine noticed the complete 
success with which Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, Bart., grows the different 
species of Cacti, and his usual method of growing them ; and having since become 
cognizant of another interesting fact relative to the principles of grafting which 
Mr. Green adopts, we now proceed to lay it before our readers. Every person that 
is at all acquainted with this beautiful tribe must be well aware that the stems of 
Cereus speciosissimus are much stronger and more succulent than those of 
Epiphylium speciosum and E. Ackermannii, and consequently contain more nou- 
rishment. Acting upon this theory Mr. Green takes plants of C. speciosissimus in 
the early period of their growth, and as they usually throw three, four, or more 
stems from the root of the plant, he divests them of all but one, taking care to leave 
the strongest and most healthy one remaining, which is then trained up to a stick 
quite erect, till it has attained the height of between two and three feet ; he then 
takes cuttings of the two before-named species of Epiphylium,, and, commencing about 
two feet from the bottom of the stem thus prepared, places grafts round it at two or 
three inches from one another indiscriminately till he reaches the top : while he thus 
places both the above-named species on one plant, he has other plants on which he 
places grafts of only one of the species, which constitutes a pleasing variety ; the 
plants thus grafted upon will, in the course of a year or two, make beautiful heads, 
and the grafts, owing to the superior nourishment derived from the plants on which 
they are grafted, will grow much more luxuriantly, flower more abundantly, and the 
flowers will be nearly twice as large. Mr. Green has several very fine plants 
treated in this way, which, even when they are not in flower, have a very imposing 
appearance, and no doubt, when in flower, they are surpassingly beautiful. From 
the great success attending this method of treating these two species, there can be 
little doubt but that Epiphylium splendidum, truncatum, alatum, and others that 
have weak and flat stems, would do equally well under the same treatment ; and we 
think, if this system were more generally adopted, it would contribute greatly to 
enhance the value of this highly beautiful and much-admired tribe of plants. 
Wistaria consequana. This beautiful plant, which is now becoming so common 
an ornament of our greenhouses, verandahs, and garden walls, will nevertheless still 
be considered worthy of a situation in every collection, on account of its flowering so 
early in the spring, and the flowers being so very beautiful and fragrant, and we have 
