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segments are linear, and rather large yellow flowers borne in clusters of three or upwards, closely 
adhering to the branches. 
Gladiolus Ga'ndavensis supe'rba. A very superior variety, with much larger and more 
highly-coloured flowers than G. Gandavensis. It has recently flowered at Pineapple Place. 
Marty'nia. In one of the greenhouses at Kew, a hardy member of this genus is flowering. 
It is annual, growing in small pots a foot high. Its leaves are opposite, somewhat cordate, 
very hairy, and its flowers very large and handsome, borne in terminal clusters ; their corolla has 
a rich purple-crimson limb, four-cleft ; upper segments lobed and darkest coloured, and the throat 
of the tube yellow. 
Onci'dium oblonga'tum. Now flowering in the Hackney collection ; has rather large angular 
pseudo-bulbs, which are marked in mottled bands with purple in a handsome manner. Its leaves 
are rather long, and its panicle of flowers two to three feet high and upwards. Its flowers have 
pale yellow sepals and petals dotted at the base with bright brown, a large yellow- waved labellum 
marked also with brown at its base. It is a handsome species, flowering very freely ; was 
introduced from Guatemala by the Messrs. Loddiges, in 1840. 
Potenti'lla Macnabia v na. A very beautiful Potentilla, a variety raised in Yorkshire, 
distributed through the London establishments by Mr. Low, of Upper Clapton, in whose Nursery 
it has flowered in a fine manner. In habit it does not differ from some other species, grows two 
to three feet high, has ample, numerous, radical leaves, and produces in great abundance its large, 
strikingly brilliant, orange- crimson flowers. 
Plero v ma e'legans. Bearing this name, the Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, sent early in the past 
month, to exhibit at the Regent Street Rooms, at a meeting of the Horticultural Society, which 
did not take place, a member of this genus, stated to be from Peru, erect growing, with short 
'woody branches, opposite oblong-lanceolate channelled leaves, glabrous on their upper surface, and 
numerous terminal, large, vivid purple, charming flowers. It is a highly ornamental species. 
Saurau'ja ma'crophylla. A stove plant under this name has flowered in the collection of 
the Messrs. Rollisson. It is an accidental importation, received from Mexico with Orchids, about 
two years ago ; has large, broadly-lanceolate, rough leaves, which have red petioles and midribs, 
and are beset with red pubescence. The flowers are rather small, white, very like those of a 
Begonia, and are borne freely in small panicles. 
Scutellaria macrantha. A species introduced by Mr. Fortune to the garden of the 
Horticultural Society, and has flowered there. It is a slender-branched dwarf plant, with subulate, 
opposite, hairy leaves, and pale blue flowers, the tube of whose corolla is whitish. It will doubtless 
prove sufficiently hardy to be a useful flower-garden plant, though at present it is kept in the 
greenhouse. 
Tore'nia. This species was raised from seeds received from Arracan by the Messrs. Rollisson, 
and has flowered with them. Its disposition is partially climbing ; it is slender-growing, has small, 
cordate, opposite, serrated, purple-tinged leaves, and bears terminal and axillary, rather small, 
dark-coloured flowers. 
OPERATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER. 
There are few proprietors, and indeed managers of gardens either, who do not, as each year 
revolves, come to the laudable determination of carrying out some improvement or some little 
alteration to add an additional charm to, or at least to aid in producing a degree of variation in 
the scene whence so large a share of gratification and instructive pleasure, especially in the 
summer season, is continually being drawn. We are not anxious to make a few remarks upon 
this subject now, because it is requisite that measures of a practical nature, for the furtherance of 
the above object, must very soon be taken ; for we are too well aware, after the general flower 
garden may be said to have attained perfection, how soon such perfection is liable to be prostrated, 
to recommend any proceedings which interfere with the enjoyment of it, or shorten the period of 
its duration. There are, doubtless, instances where improvements or alterations of an extensive 
