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stand is manufactured, which ensures in itself the chief benefits which the pots are 
calculated to impart, though hardly to so great an extent. 
About an inch, or a little more from the bottom of this flat, a rim of three 
quarters of an incli (more or less, according to the size of the flat) is furnished, and 
on this, the usual flat-bottomed pots are to be placed. There is thus below them 
a considerable open space into which the water from the soil may flow, and the 
advantages of good drainage, with a freedom from standing water in contact with 
the base of the pot, are in this way obtained. 
To realize, however, the under current and circulation of air which are gained 
by the new pot, three or four apertures are made round the inner rim of the flat, 
and nearest to its side, so that the water which collects in it, and the soil in the 
pot, through the medium of the usual hole at its base, will be thus freely subjected 
to atmospheric influence. We regard this as a very excellent contrivance, and one 
which all who have to put plants in stands, and yet use the ordinary pots, should 
invariably call in to their aid. 
Our other figure, No. m., exhibits one of a quantity of varied and handsome pots 
which are manufactured by Mr. Hunt, with their 
stands, on the above principles, in Lambeth stone, 
and which are beautifully adapted for drawing-room 
windows, for balconies, for the top or sides of archi- 
tectural steps, for balustrades, for prominent posi- 
tions in conservatories, or in greenhouses attached 
to residences, or, in short, for any place where a 
small decorated vase is desired. Another, and 
rather simpler pattern, is shown in the wood-cut of 
Medinilla erythrophylla, at page 80 of the present 
number. 
We have now only to express a hope that Mr. Hunt will apply the remaining 
hints we gave in a former page, and which he says he can easily embody in his 
plan. These refer to increased shallowness, and the supply of an additional 
number of apertures at the bottom of the pot. With these alterations we should 
pronounce his pots perfect, according to our existing knowledge of the subject. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR APRIL. 
Ami'cia zygo'meris. " The genus Amicia was so named by Messrs. Humboldt and Kunth, in 
honour of John Baptiste Amici, of Modena, who has so much distinguished himself by his micro- 
scopical observations, especially on the movement of the fluids in plants. It is chiefly distinguished 
from Poiretia by the peculiar form of the calyx. There is another remarkable feature in the 
entire plant, leaves, calyx, and even the corolla—that they are everywhere filled with pellucid, 
