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NOTICES OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
of this well known and much admired species is now producing its brilliant scarlet- 
coloured blossoms in great abundance. Messrs. Henderson have a brilliant display 
of forced flowers, such as JRoses, Azaleas, Pelargoniums, &c, and these being all 
brought into the show-house, and there tastefully arranged according to their size, 
present to the eye a most lovely and fascinating appearance, while the odour that is 
exhaled from the Hyacinths, Narcissuses, &c, delights the senses, and almost 
leads one to imagine that they were in a paradise. Nemophila insignis. — This 
elegant little annual is now beautifully in flower in the greenhouse, and justly merits 
a situation in every collection. 
Mr. Knight's, Chelsea. Ipomcea Horsfallice. This splendid stove-plant, 
which is deservedly esteemed as one of the best climbing plants at present known 
to our collections, is now producing its brilliant crimson-coloured blossoms in the 
orchidese-house of Mr. Knight, where it seems to thrive remarkably well, and we 
should certainly consider that any collection of stove-plants would be deficient 
without this highly beautiful and ornamental plant. Pereskia JBleo, — This is 
another stove-plant of great beauty, and is now in flower in the above-named 
nursery, where also there is an excellent stock of plants of this species. Mr. 
Knight has also a new and very pretty species of Cypripedium now in flower, the 
flower of which is of a pale pink colour, and is distinct from any we have yet seen ; 
it was imported by Mr. Knight some time ago from Canada, along with many 
other species of Cypripedium and Sarracenia which have not yet flowered. Good 
blooming plants of the JRhodora Canadense are here and there interspersed among 
the greenhouse plants in the conservatory, which have a very pretty and pleasing 
appearance. 
Messrs. Loddiges', Hackney. Nothing can exceed the peculiar beauty with 
which some of Messrs. Loddiges' orchideous plants are now flowering ; for instance, 
those two elegant species of the genus Dendrobium, viz. D. Pierardi and 
pulchellum, are now producing their charming blossoms in greater perfection than 
we have ever before seen ; large plants of each of these two species are suspended 
from the roof of the orchideae-house, and their long slender stems are so completely 
covered with their exquisitely beautiful pink blossoms, as makes them appear at 
first sight to be one mass of flowers ; but upon a nearer approach you begin to 
perceive the stems and foliage, which, being of a very delicate green texture, 
greatly add to the beauty of their appearance, and on the whole they present some 
of the most lovely objects which the eye ever beheld, or which the imagination 
could conceive. Besides the extraordinary beauty of these two species of Dendro* 
bium, Messrs. Loddiges have many other beautiful orchideous plants now in flower, 
viz., Oncidium pulchellum and pictum, Govenia pallida, and various others ; 
among which we noticed a good plant of Myanthus deltoides, which new and 
beautiful species is there flowering very profusely ; but what took our attention 
most, was that it was suspended from the roof of the house, without anything to 
attach itself to, and in that state was thriving remarkably well ; this is one among 
the many convincing proofs, that many species of this beautiful tribe of plants 
subsist wholly on air and moisture. To add to the beauty of Messrs. Loddiges' 
