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NOTICES OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS 
IN FLOWER IN THE PRINCIPAL NURSERIES AND PRIVATE GARDENS IN THE 
VICINITY OF LONDON. 
Messrs. Henderson's, Pine-Apple Place. Azalea Indica Smithii. Amongst 
the almost endless beautiful species and varieties of Azalea now common to our 
collections, this is certainly very far from being one of the most unworthy of 
notice ; on the contrary, it is a most splendid and valuable variety, and one that 
justly merits a place in every collection. Messrs. Henderson have a particularly 
fine plant of it now most brilliantly in flower. Rhodanthe Manglesii. — This 
charming new annual is now flowering profusely in the greenhouse of the above 
nursery, and no collection, however small, should be destitute of it, as it may be 
made to flower at almost all seasons of the year. Messrs. Henderson's show-house 
is still remarkably attractive, and they have forced flowers of all kinds in very great 
perfection. 
Mr. Knight's, Chelsea. Mr. Knight has now in flower a most splendid new 
Amaryllis, which he has raised from seed ; the flowers are very large, of a white 
ground, and beautifully pencilled with delicate pink-coloured stripes ; and of the 
many beautiful species and varieties of this extensive and much admired genus now 
extant, we think that there is none more deserving of a place in a good collection 
than the present one. Azalea Indica variegata. — Thh splendid new variety of 
Azalea has recently flowered in the above nursery in great perfection, and promises 
again to produce its beautiful blossoms in a short time. Mr. Knight has also two 
or three other new varieties of Azalea, which are exceedingly beautiful, and any 
collection of this much admired genus would certainly be deficient without them. 
The Ipomcea Horsfallice is still exhibiting its beautiful blossoms, and there are 
several good orchideous plants now in flower, particularly a very fine specimen of 
Lessochilus speciosus. Mr. Knight has recently made a considerable accession to 
his stock of Orchidece, by new importations, among which there appears to be 
several things which have not before been introduced to this country, and some very 
fine specimens of Cattleya, some of which will very probably be new and valuable. 
Several new species of Sarracenia have flowered with Mr. Knight during the past 
month, which are part of an importation he made some time ago from Canada; 
some of them were very distinct, and well worthy of notice. 
Messrs. Loddiges', Hackney. Saccolobium prcemorsum. Notwithstanding 
the many beautiful species that now exist belonging to that highly interesting order 
Orchidece, we think that we hardly ever met with one to excel, in point of real 
elegance, the one now before us ; it bears some resemblance to S. guttatum, but is 
decidedly superior to it ; the flowers are produced on racemes, which proceed from 
the axilla of the leaves, and depend downwards ; the ground colour of the flowers is 
white, but they are most beautifully blotched with a delicate rosy lilac. A fine 
plant in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges is now producing two large racemes of 
flowers ; the flowers grow so closely together on the raceme as entirely to hide 
