FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
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Veitch and Sons, Exeter. It is somewhat like F. fulgens in flower and colour, though in the 
manner of producing them widely different. At the axils of the leaves, which are in fours at a 
joint, the flower-stems, are sent out horizontally, seven or eight inches long, at the end of which are 
several leaf-like bracts, out of which the flowers are produced, hanging down in bunches ; and 
these, rising tier above tier, give the plant an unique as well as graceful appearance. 
G^^rdenia Sherbourni. Messrs. Knight and Perry have recently had this pretty flowered 
Gardenia in bloom ; it has long been known from its beautiful habit as a creeper, but its qualities 
as a free bloomer are anything but favourable. The flower is about two inches long, and expands 
to about an inch-and-a-half, pure Avhite, with a rich flesh-colour covering the interior of the tube : 
it possesses a rich odour, and lasts several days in good perfection. 
Gesnera Hondensis. We found several seedling varieties of this species in good flower in 
the nursery of Mr. Glendinning, Chiswick. The specimens were about ten inches high, producing 
their flowers rather abundantly, as many as eight or ten at the axils. The flower is an inch long, 
orange, but being covered with long hair of a crimson colour gives the flower a rich scarlet 
tint. The leaves are long and narrow, serrated, and dark green, paler at the back, clothed 
with downy hairs, stem and peduncles likewise. The stem is slightly tinged with a purplish colour. 
On the whole, we think it a desirable plant for winter culture to those possessing a stove. 
Hindsia spe NOV. At the last Horticultural Meeting at the rooms. Regent Street, Messrs. 
Veitch and Sons exhibited a new species of Hindsia, and from the season at which it flowers it will 
be a vei’y serviceable plant, more particularly as it requires but the shelter of an ordinary 
greenhouse. The plant forms a dwarf bush six or eight inches high, with neat and bright green 
foliage, flowers terminal, in bunches of four or more blooms of a reddish-lilac colour about an inch 
long and produced freely all over the plant. 
Jasminum nudiflorum. We noticed this plant flowering in the open air on a wall, slightly 
protected by a projecting straw roof in the Gardens of the Horticultural Society, Chiswick. The 
plant produces a plentiful supply of pale-yellow blossoms, without foliage or (as far as we could 
judge) any fragrance. The species was one of the introductions of Mr. Fortune, from China, and 
highly deserving a place in every garden. 
Leucopogon juniperoides. This species we noticed in flower and coming into flower in great 
profusion in the nursery of Messrs. Henderson, Pine Apple Place. Its flowers are minute repre- 
sentations of the Epacris, of a delicate pink colour, and produced in clusters at the axils and tip 
of the shoots ; this, allied to a neat habit with linear-like foliage, will make the species deservedly 
a favourite. 
Luculia gratissima. We cannot avoid some mention of this truly splendid specimen, now in 
gorgeous condition of flower at Chiswick, in the Conservatory of the Horticultural Society, The 
specimen is more than six feet high and nearly the same in width, covered with its large bunches 
of highly fragrant blooms, many of the bunches being ten inches in diameter, and flowering from 
branches almost close to the ground. From the free manner in which this specimen grows and 
blooms, we feel surprised we do not more often see it elsewhere, and we are not aware that any 
particular method of cultivation is resorted to, more than being planted out in the border, and 
left to pursue its course unchecked. Certainly there is not a more handsome or desirable plant to 
be had for the purpose of turning out in the border, as it continues in flower for three or four 
months during the winter. 
Salvia oppositiflora. Some time since we received a specimen of the above from Messrs. 
Veitch and Sons, Exeter, having long racemes of orange-coloured flowers, hardy, and growing 
about two feet high, sending out laterals covered with flowers all the way up the stem. Neat and 
a good green foliage, will make it a very useful plant for the border. 
