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With Red Flowers. 
Amongst Chinese Azaleas the sorts are almost endless. 
Chorozema teiangulare is one of the prettiest plants of the genus ; the flowers 
are a very rich scarlet, the growth compact, and the cultivation easy. The requisites 
are good turfy peat, free drainage, planting high in the pot, partial shade from the 
scorching summer sun, a free supply of water, and a security from damp during the 
winter. 
CuPHEA PLATYCENTRA. — One of the best winter-flowering plants we have, and 
also hardy enough to endure the open flower-borders in summer. 
Eucalyptus macrocarpa is a beautiful glaucous-looking plant, with large red 
flowers, very conspicuous. 
Leschenaultia splendens. — A fine companion to L. formosa, andhiloha. The 
flowers are of so bright a scarlet, that when the plant is covered with them, their 
effect is so dazzling, that in sunny weather it is difficult for the eye to rest upon them. 
Rhododendron arboreum Paxtoni resembles the old R. arhoreum, but is in 
every respect very superior to it ; in fact, it may perhaps be said that it is the most 
splendid Rhododendron known. 
Of Correas many may be mentioned, but the garden varieties called hrilliant, 
picta, rubra, curiosa, and p^^^^chella, are held in high esteem, and, being winter and 
early spring-flowerers, may be classed amongst our first-rate plants. 
With Rose-coloured Floivers. 
Aphelexis HUMiLis aiid MACRANTHA produce a great profusion of bloom, the indi- 
vidual flowers are large, of a delicate rose, and being what are popularly termed 
everlasting, continue in perfection for a great length of time. 
Camellia Japonica miniata is a most superior hybrid, and deserves to be in 
every collection. — “ Mag. Bot.” 
Of Epacrtses, three kinds, figured in “Mag. Bot.,” v. xv., t. 193, under the 
names of camjMnulata maxima, hicolor, and delicata, deserve to be added to the 
already fine collections of this genus grown. They are stated, at t. 193, to have 
been raised by Messrs. Low and Son, which was a mistake : they were raised by 
John Wilmore, Esq., of Oldford, Birmingham, the gentleman wdio w^as so fortunate 
as to raise Erica hyemalis Wilmorii, and several other very good things. E. Taun- 
toniensis, also, is a very good hybrid, with a habit very much like that of E. impnxssa. 
Gaylussacia pseudo-vaccinium. — A compact evergreen bush, resembling a small 
Arbutus, with racemes of rich rose-coloured flowers, and of the easiest cultivation. 
It thrives in sandy peat and leaf-mould, and requires the same treatment as Cape 
Heaths, and is propagated by seeds and layers ; the latter should be laid down just 
before the growth commences, in spring. 
Indigofera decora. — A first-rate winter-flowering plant ; it is a Chinese plant, 
and will grow in almost any light sandy soil, but especially in sandy peat. Our 
plants at Chatsworth are almost continually in bloom. The requisites are plenty of 
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