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OPERATIONS FOR APRIL. 
NEW PLANTS FLOWERING IN THE SUBURBAN NURSERIES. 
Dendr6bium Heyneanum. A lovely little species, with cylindrical stems, 
about four or six inches high, erect, and at present wanting its foliage. The 
racemes of flowers proceed from near the top of the stems, are slightly drooping, 
and bear ten or twelve pure white blossoms, which are densely arranged, and have 
their exterior members so disposed as to look something like a bunch of Syringa 
flowers. They are rather yellowish in the middle. A specimen is blooming w^ith 
Messrs. Loddiges. 
Lob^:lia discolor. More remarkable for the variegation of its leaves, which 
contain a most beautiful mixture of purple and green, than for the size or showiness 
of its flowers ; these being dimininutive and white. It is now blossoming in the 
stove at Mr. Low's, Clapton, and Messrs. Henderson's, Pine-apple Place ; but 
when it is kept in a greenhouse, and flowered at a more congenial season, it will 
most likely be much superior. 
MiRBELiA FLORiBtjNDA. At first thought to be the M. speciosa^ and since 
regarded as a new species by Dr. Lindley. It has narrow leaves, is of a dwarf 
robust habitude, and produces an amazing number of pretty pale-blue blossoms. 
Messrs. Loddiges possess a considerable quantity of flowering plants. 
PiMELEA sPEOTABiLis. Au interesting new Swan River plant, raised by Mr. 
Low, of Clapton, from seeds collected by Mr. Drummond, and lately flowered in 
the Clapton nursery, as well as in other gardens. It resembles P. hispida^ though 
it grows more strongly, and has longer leaves and larger flowers. The latter appear, 
as usual, in terminal clusters, and are hght pink at the base of the tube, becoming 
darker near the summit. 
OPERATIONS FOR APRIL. 
Vegetation having commenced its growth with unusual earliness and rapidity, 
the movements of the cultivator will be proportionately accelerated. It cannot, 
however, be too strongly pressed on the attention of all engaged in floriculture, 
that, from the ordinary peculiarities of seasons, a greater or less amount of cold 
weather must necessarily yet be experienced ; and, perhaps, before this is pub- 
lished, the winter, or, at least, some of its attendant rigours, may be freely resumed. 
In any case, it behoves every one to exercise the strictest caution ; to retard by 
every practicable means, rather than forward, the progress of plants ; and to be 
prepared with all needful appliances, to shelter valuable species in the open ground, 
should it be requisite. It is well known that the young newly developed shoots 
of shrubby specimens are infinitely more susceptive of injury than the more woody 
