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MISCELLANEOUS. 
ISTbw and Kare Plants in Flower. Begonia 
cinnabarina. In the accompanying vignette, our 
artist has supplied a faithful portrait of a young 
specimen we recently noticed in flower in Messrs. 
Henderson's Nursery, Pine-apple Place. 
Since its introduction, until within a very recent 
period, this beautiful species has enjoyed the appro- 
priate specific distinction of aurantiaca, but we 
have just learned from Messrs. Henderson that Sir 
William Hooker has renamed it as above. 
It is one of the handsomest of this showy tribe, 
and additionally valuable on account of its adapta- 
tion for greenhouse culture. 
Like Begonia Evansiana, it is a bulbous rooted 
species of good habitude, with orange-scarlet in- 
florescence conspicuously erected several inches 
above luxuriant foliage of a rich and glossy verdure. 
Bolivia in South America is its native country ; 
its flowering season under greenhouse cultivation 
commences soon after midsummer, and continues 
profusely, Messrs. Henderson informed us, until the 
approach of winter. 
It is one of the rarest plants at present blooming 
in the Pine apple Place Nursery, where we also 
noticed a good trellis specimen of 
Thunhergia gra7idiflora. This noble old stove 
climber has been discarded from not a few collec- 
tions, on account of the difficulty not unfrequently 
experienced, in inducing it to blossom freely, and 
even in the hands of some of our best cultivators 
it flowers but sparingly ; but we are inclined 
to the opinion that the supposed shy blooming 
tendency of this plant may be traced to the circum- 
stance of its not being generally placed in suitable 
conditions. 
The specimen we saw at Messrs. Henderson's was 
enjoying the rudest health and flowering freely, and 
the following is the treatment, we were informed, 
as being most conducive to its well-doing. — A not 
too extensive, nor over nutritious rooting medium, 
efifective drainage, comparative drought during 
winter, and, on the other hand, most liberal water- 
ings and syringings throughout the active season. 
Bahingtonia Camphorosma. A very pretty 
heath-like Swan River shrub, suitable for green- 
house culture. We noticed a fine specimen of it in 
bloom in the Pine-apple Place Nursery, about 
eighteen inches high and two feet diameter. The 
branches are very long and slender, clothed with 
Erica-like foliage, and towards their extremities the 
pretty pinkish-white inflorescence is produced 
copiously. The general aspect of the plant is very 
graceful when the branches have attained their full 
length, and it freely thrives under the treatment 
generally given to the more delicate section of New 
Holland genera. 
The modern system of "bedding out" half hardy 
plants and many genera originally confined to 
greenhouse culture, has opened a wide additional 
field for our enterprising nurserymen. 
Messrs. Henderson's establishment in the Wel- 
lington Eoad, St. John's Wood, is especially rich in 
new and valuable subjects suitable for the summer 
and autumnal decoration of the modern pleasure- 
ground and parterre, amongst which we observed 
some surpassingly beautiful French Verbenas, which 
are to be seen to greater advantage, because planted 
out in beds in juxta-position with the sorts more 
generally employed ; their respective habits and 
value being thus more readily appreciated. The 
following are a few of the best kinds we saw planted 
out : — 
Verbena Ajpollon, a very clear dark violet purple, 
fine trusser. 
; Clotilde, beautifully striped and variegated with 
pink and white, and a very constant profuse bloomer. 
MorpMe, rich blue, with conspicuous white 
centre, good habit for bedding. 
Remai'lcable, the best deep blood-red colour we 
are acquainted with, and a fine trusser. 
