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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
When the growing season is quite over, that for flowering commences ; this is 
generally ahout the middle of October, and usually continues until the middle of 
February. 
As soon as the flowering season terminates, prepare the plants for wintering. 
If in pots, they may be placed at the cool end of the stove ; but if planted out, this 
of course cannot be done. Now cut down the plant to about five or six feet in length, 
and prune off all the side shoots so as to have only one stem. This must be repeated 
every year, for on this in a great measure rests the success of its flowering freely. 
It must now be allowed to repose, only watering at the roots when the soil shows 
signs of dryness, and preventing the action of any other excitement until about the 
middle of April, when it will again show signs of growth. Then top dress, or pot if 
required. And when the young shoots have extended to three or four inches in 
length, thin them out to not more than six for training, and plant the rest as cuttings, 
in pots of sand, placed under a hand-glass in heat. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING PLANTS IN FLOWER AT THE PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Aconitum autumnale. In the gardens of the Horticultural Society, Chiswick, this species is 
now blooming freely ; it has pale-blue flowers, and will make a handsome addition to our flower- 
garden. Mr. Fortune introduced it from China. 
JEschynanthus MiNiATUs. Messrs. Veitch and Sons, Exeter, forwarded a specimen of the 
above to us, having large clusters of flowers, each flower an inch-and-a-half long, of a deep crimson 
colour, with dark-brown bars in the throat, and partially down the petals. It is a small-growing 
species, with rich, glossy green foliage, and evidently a profuse bloomer, 
Barkeria Skinneri major. In the nursery of Messrs. Loddiges, Hackney, we found a 
splendid variety of B. Skinneri, called by them the var. major. The flower-scape nearly two feet 
long, holding upwards of thirty flowers expanded, of a deep, reddish, lilac-purple, with stripes of 
bright gold colour down the lip. In habit it is much stronger, foliage longer, and double the 
breadth, apparently less delicate than the old variety, and in every way superior and more valuable. 
Clerodendron macrophyllum. Messrs. Veitch and Sons exhibited at the Horticultural 
Society's Booms, Regent Street, a handsome specimen of this free-blooming species. The plant 
was about three feet high, and completely covered with a dense mass of small white flowers from 
the base to the top of the plant. The foliage is large, upwards of ten inches long by four broad, 
of a dark-green colour. Viewed as a plant producing an immense mass of flowers in so small a 
space, this species is unequalled. 
Eria spe. nov. An unknown species, introduced from Borneo by Mr. Low, of Clapton, in 
whose collection it has flowered. The species was found on the banks of a river, growing on trees 
in large masses, with flower-scapes eight or ten inches long, closely packed on the stem, and of a 
pure white. No idea can be formed of the beauty of the plant from the specimen in flower, 
but when in health, and flowering as freely as in its native country, we think it will be an excellent 
addition to our stoves. 
Franciscea gracilis. In the exotic nursery of Messrs. Knight and Perry, Chelsea, is flowering 
a very pretty shrub, of neat habit and rich green foliage. The flower has a narrow tube about 
four inches long, spreading at the extremity to about an inch-and-a-half in diameter, a pale cream- 
colour, and slightly fragrant. The flowers have an interest differing from most of the species by 
