FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
suited for a flower border, and an entire bed filled with it has a very pretty effect. The seeds 
are best raised in a hotbed. — Bot. Mag., 4362. 
Lycoris straminea — Straw-coloured Lycoris. A pretty bulbous plant, received by the Horti- 
cultural Society from Mr. Fortune in 1845, from China. It is apparently as hardy as a Narciss, 
and grows freely in any good rich garden soil. Increase is effected by offsets from the old bulbs. 
If it should prove quite hardy, it will be desirable for the flower-garden. — Jffort. Journal, 
vol. hi, p. 76. 
NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING PLANTS IN FLOWER AT THE PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Acacia rotundifolia. We have been favoured with a specimen of the above-named Acacia 
from Messrs. Hugh Low, Clapton. It is a most graceful and ornamental little plant, hanging 
over the pot in long branches most abundantly covered with globular blooms of a rich yellow, and 
produced in twos and threes at the axils of the leaves, so densely as almost to hide its very neat 
and bright glossy green foliage. The plant does not appear to be a large grower, and in that 
respect will be a decided acquisition. Mr. Low conjectures it was introduced by Mr. Drummond 
from New Holland. 
Camellia seedling var. In the nursery of Messrs. H. Low, Clapton, we found two very 
remarkable and handsome seedling Camellias. Messrs. L. have been singularly successful the 
last few years in producing fine flowers with the addition of large and handsome foliage, and 
this year they do not lag behind. The first one they name C. caryophylloides from the beauty 
and regularity of the flakes or stripes down the petals ; it has a blush-coloured ground, with the 
flakes a much deeper tint ; the flower is about four inches across, very double, and well filled up to 
the centre. The other flower is not so full of petals, but it has a singular attraction in the richness 
of its colour. It is, like the former, a striped variety, but it has a rich rose ground with the stripes 
approaching a deep scarlet. The habit is that of C. Donkilaarii ; the first is much the stronger 
growing plant, with foliage large and handsome. 
Cattleya Skinneri. In the Gardens of the Horticultural Society, Chiswick, this handsome 
species is now flowering in great beauty ; the specimen exhibits upwards of a dozen fine heads of 
bloom, well coloured and expanded. We cannot avoid expressing our admiration of plants like 
this ; annually do we notice the enlargement and increasing beauty through careful and attentive 
cultivation, producing an additional amount of bloom, which fully compensates the cultivator for 
the long period it takes to gain such a specimen as the one under notice. 
Dendrobium spe. nov. Mr. Carson, gardner to — Farmer, Esq., Nonsuch Park, Cheam, Surrey, 
favoured us with a flower of a most lovely Dendrobium. The habit is much like D. densiflorum, 
though the pseudo-bulb is more angular, and the flower-scape not quite so densely laden with bloom. 
The flower is a most delicate one, the outer petals being a peach-blossom colour, while the side 
petals and labellum are a pale straw-colour beautifully fringed at the edges ; the latter is rendered 
more attractive by a large blotch of the richest and deepest yellow, almost an orange. We can 
safely conjecture that it will be one of the most charming species yet introduced, as no doubt it 
will prove a profuse bloomer. 
Eriostemon nereifolium. In the garden of R. Barclay, Esq., Leyton, Essex, under the 
careful management of his gardener Mr. Kyle, is a very handsome specimen of the above, most 
profusely decorated with white blossoms, delicately tinged with pink. The plant was near five 
feet high, two feet at the base, tapering to the top. Messrs. Henderson, Pineapple-Place, Edgeware 
Road, have a fine specimen much older than the above, very well flowered. 
Fuchsia spectabilis. At the late meeting of the Horticultural Society in Regent Street was 
exhibited by Messrs. Veitch and Son, Exeter, a most remarkable Fuchsia both for size and 
colour ; Messrs. Veitch received the plant from their collector Mr. Lobb, who found it on the 
mountains of Peru, about six or seven thousand feet above the level of the sea. The flower is about 
five inches long, spreading at the mouth to an inch-and-a-half. The calyx is a rich red, almost 
scarlet, while the corolla is bright crimson, turning outward at the edges ; the flower is rendered 
more striking by the large white stigma and anthers. The bloom is produced singly, at the axils 
of the leaves of which there are three at each joint, large and handsome, about six inches long 
