PLORICULTURAL NOTICES, 
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PLANTS, NEW OR INTERESTING, IN FLOWER IN THE PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Azalea, var. Fielder's white. In Mrs. Lawrence's collection at Ealing, this fine variety is 
now exhibiting its large and very good shaped flowers, of a pure white, spotted with greenish spots 
on the upper petals. The excellence of the flowers will gain this variety a good reputation. 
Achimenes cupreata. A curious-looking plant, having foliage much in appearance of A. picta, 
but without the variegated character ; with small, but very bright, scarlet flowers, slightly notched 
at the edges, and yellow in the throat. Its habit is that of a creeper, hanging over the side of the 
pot about two feet. What may be its value as to luxuriance of flowers, time alone can inform us ? 
the specimen here noticed having but one flower expanded. It is from the collection of His Grace 
the Duke of Northumberland, Sion House. 
Brugmansia sanguinea. This fine old plant has been for some time past flowering in the 
most luxuriant manner in the conservatory of the Horticultural Society, Chiswick. It is well 
known for its long, large, red and yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers, hanging from a mass of coarse 
foliage, which, in a small plant, has not much attraction ; but in the specimen here noticed, which 
is large, being fourteen or fifteen feet high, and nine or ten feet in its widest part, and having such 
a profusion of flowers upon it, the plant is exceedingly attractive. 
Davesia, spe. A handsome species has lately been flowering in the Nursery of Mr. Glen- 
dinning, at Chiswick. It has a tortuous stem, throwing out at every turn a leaf or flat spine, 
very sharp-pointed, at the axils of which the flowers are produced in twos or threes, small, but a 
very rich orange-yellow, having a dark spot of chocolate in the centre. It is a very handsome 
addition to the species, and now flowering for the first time in this country. 
Dendrobium spe. nov. At the recent Horticultural Fete, Messrs. Veitch of Exeter exhibited 
three new species of the Dendrobium. The first, in the bulb, is much like D. Paxtoni, as well as in 
the flower, having racemes holding upwards of ten yellow flowers, with a small spot of deep 
crimson in the throat of the labellum, which is of a paler yellow, and beautifully fringed at the 
edges. The second, in flower, is allied to D. aggregatum, only smaller, yellow, and the labellum 
being fringed ; the bulbs about four inches long, very thick and tapering to each end The third 
species has bulbs about eighteen inches long, and half an inch in diameter, round and smooth, 
producing its flowers in pairs, at every joint up the stem : the flowers, though small, are very 
pretty, being of a delicate rose-colour, richly improved by a large blotch of bright yellow in the 
labellum, The whole of these specimens are without foliage. 
Erica Imperialis. This handsome species has lately developed its fine flowers in the 
nursery of Messrs. Rollisson, Tooting. It is rather rare in our gardens, though introduced 
many years since, and, taking the size of its flowers, which are two inches long, narrow, pale 
pink from the calyx, shading to near the division of the tube, when it becomes a bright green, 
these radiating at right angles with the stem at the top of each shoot in six, eight or more flowers, 
with foliage good and very handsome, makes the plant one of very considerable merit, and well 
deserving its name. 
Gardenia Fortuni. A very handsome plant, having flowers as large and double as the White 
Camellia, richly scented, and a pure white, well relieved by a mass of rich, dark-green, glossy 
foliage. This species was introduced by Mr. Fortune to the Horticultural Society's Gardens, 
Chiswick, where it has recently been in flower. 
Gompholobium spe nov. A very handsome and superior species is now flowering with Mr. 
Ayres, gardener to Jas. Cook, Esq., Brooklands, Blackheath Park, and, as compared with 
G. polymorphism, exhibits a decided superiority, whether from its luxuriant habit, or the brilliant 
crimson, and profusion of its flower. This species will no doubt supersede all the varieties of 
0. polymorphum in cultivation. 
Houletia spe. A curious rather than handsome plant of this genus has been flowering from 
an imported bulb at Messrs. Rollisson's, Tooting. It is very like H. Brocldehurstiana in habit 
as well as the general appearance of its flowers, being about the same size, growing erect, of a 
