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MISCELLANEOUS. 
Ariadne. A rich creamy bulf or apricot colour, 
good habit. 
Beauty of Stowe. Colour blush, with bright pink 
centre. This is a remarkable dwarf, compact grow- 
ing Yerbena, the individual trusses very large and 
fine. 
General Brea. A deep rich maroon colour, good 
habit. 
War Eagle. A dark scarlet with maroon centre, 
capital truss. 
Iphigene. Pale lilac, dark rosy centre, good for 
bedding. 
John Salter. Orange-scarlet, with crimson centre. 
This is a splendid variety for bedding, whether for 
habit, colour, or size of truss. 
Eclipse. Ground-colour a delicate pink, with a 
broad, well-defined stripe of deep rose in the centre 
of the corolla. An excellent variety for the flower- 
garden. 
Emperor of China, dark velvety crimson, very 
distinct, and a good bedding variety. 
Amongst other plants suitable for flower garden 
decoration which we noticed in the Wellington 
Koad Nursery, may be mentioned the following : 
Antirrhinum " Queen Victoria." A very fine one, 
Avith light ground, yellow eye, the upper portion of 
the corolla richly stained with carmine. 
Lobelia azurea granditlora. A fine blue flower- 
ing, dwarf-branching variety, well adapted for 
bedding. 
Salvia azurea compacta. A very pretty dwarf 
and free-blooming sort. Grows about a foot high, 
with azure-blue flowers, pencilled with clear white 
on the lower lip of the corolla. This is a very neat 
growing Salvia, and will be found a valuable ad- 
dition to the list of decorative plants. 
Phlox depressa. A hyl^rid between Phlox Drum- 
mondii and one of the best hardy herbaceous kinds ; 
of a free, robust and procumbent habit, having fine 
dark green leaves, and producing from May until 
October large corymbs of bright rosy purple flowers. 
This is a desirable and valuable acquisition for 
bedding purposes. 
Gloxinia " Professor Decaisne." A continental 
variety, with dark green leaves conspicuously veined 
with white. It is a profuse bloomer, the flowers 
being of a rich rose colour as regards their external 
aspect, and the lower part of the interior of the co- 
rolla is of a creamy white, the upper portion stained 
with rosy crimson. A very pretty Gloxinia imported 
by Messrs. Low of the Upper Clapton Nursery, 
where we noticed it in bloom. 
Hoy a campanulata. A vigorous young trellis 
specimen in perfect health of this pretty Hoya was 
recently flowering in the stove of S. Rucker, Esq., 
Wandsworth. 
It is one of Messrs. Veitch's introductions, and 
probably the circumstance of its being considered a 
shy blooming species will account for its not being 
more generally met with in collections. 
But if so this is a mistake. Mr. Mylam states that 
he experiences no difficulty in flowering it, by afibrd- 
ing it the treatment ordinarily given to stove 
climbers, an exemplification of which consists in the 
specimen under notice, which was exhibiting 
upwards of a dozen developed and unexpanded 
bunches of its creamy-yellow, waxy, lucid, bell- 
shaped flowers depending on slender foot-stalks 
from the axillae of its dark-green leaves. 
Pentstemon cordifolius. At the last meeting of 
the Horticultural Society in Eegent Street, plants 
of the above were produced from the Gardens of the 
Horticultural Society and from Messrs.Henderson's 
Nursery, Wellington Road. 
The subject of our notice is a new and somewhat 
shrubby species with brownish orange flowers, in- 
troduced from California, by the Society's collector, 
Mr. Hartweg. 
Oxalis elegans. At the meeting just alluded to, 
flowering-specimens of this beautiful half-hardy 
Oxalis were produced by Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. 
The inflorescence, which is reddish rose, or deep 
rose-colour, with rich purple in the centre of the 
flowers, is produced in profusion, forming a striking 
contrast with the rich green of the foliage. It is 
usually grown as a greenhouse plant, although 
Messrs. Veitch sent floral specimens from the open 
ground, much finer^than the greenhouse produced ; 
from which it may be inferred it will prove valuable 
as a flower-garden plant in summer. 
Scutellaria Ventenatii. A fine plant of this 
distinct and beautiful species is at present flower- 
ing in the nursery of Messrs. Rollinson, of Tooting. 
The specimen is about 2 feet in diameter,, com- 
posing a fine mass of terminal spikes of brilliant 
scarlet flowers; and in this condition we were 
informed it had been for the last six weeks. In 
winter an intermediate, or rather warm greenhouse 
or conservatory is requisite for it ; but throughout 
the summer and early autumn, a cold greenhouse, 
or even a favourable aspect out of doors, is more 
conducive to its successful management. For 
autumnal decoration, whether in doors or out of 
doors, it is an invaluable, though rather scarce 
plant; and as it only demands the treatment 
accorded to greenhouse subjects in general, to 
grow and flower it as well as Messrs. Rollisson, no 
collection should be without it. 
Allamanda grandiflora. A good plant of this 
shrubby species we observed displaying its con- 
spicuously large pale yellow flowers in Mr. Glen- 
dinning's nursery, Turnham Green. The absence 
of the climbing propensity, and the large size of 
the flowers individually, in conjunction with its 
bushy (compared with other members of the 
family) habit of growth, render the above a de- 
sirable adjunct to every stove collection. 
Pelargonium "perpetual scarlet." A brilliant 
sort, with the above distinction, was pointed out to 
us in the nursery of the gentleman just alluded 
to, as being specially adapted for winter display, 
or for " forcing " at that season, for which latter 
purpose it was mentioned as being the " best 
scarlet in cultivation." If so (and its appearance 
is undoubtedly very prepossessing in this respect) 
it will become an indispensable variety wherever 
forced flowers are in request. 
Erica inflata compacta. This is a seedling (in 
the way of E. jubata), and which, together with 
several first-rate seedlings obtained by hybridisation 
with E. obbata, jubata and ampullacea, we were 
recently favoured with the inspection of in bloom 
in Mr. Glendinning's Nursery, Chiswick, and whether 
the size and profusion of inflorescence, or their 
very compact habit of growth, be taken into con- 
