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capable of being kept moist enough to maintain a rather damp atmosphere around 
the plant, it will flourish with a luxuriance which is seldom witnessed, and bloom 
in a very splendid manner. 
After two or three years’ growth in the same soil, under conservatory treat- 
ment, a mulching of well-pulverized manure will be of the greatest assistance to 
the plant, and this should be liberally continued in every subsequent season. Wood 
ashes or charcoal would be an excellent thing to mix with the compost in which it 
is placed, whether in a pot or a border ; and broken stone might be substituted 
when they cannot be obtained. The species, being peculiarly liable to suffer from 
over- watering, or from standing water, some such appliance to draining is particu- 
larly desirable. The charcoal and ashes would likewise be useful in a nutritive 
point of view. 
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NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR OCTOBER. 
Bigno'nja Caroli'na:. “ All that we know of this charming plant,” writes Dr. Lindley, “ is, 
that it flowered with the Earl of Ilchester, at Melbury, in 1842, at which time we were favoured 
with specimens ; and that it again blossomed with his Lordship, in great abundance, in May, 
1844. It is a most desirable plant for conservatories, because, in addition to the beauty of its 
snow-white flowers, which the plant pours forth with exuberant luxuriance, they are sweet, 
scented; an unusual circumstance with Bignonias. We presume it to be a Buenos Ayres 
species.” It is a graceful plant, with somewhat pubescent conjugate foliage, the leaflets of which ’ 
are heart-shaped, tapering at the end into a long point. The flowers are arranged rather 
loosely in terminal panicles. “ All such plants being very subject to red spider, require 
syringing once or twice a day during the summer months. They may be propagated by cuttings 
in the usual way.” Bot. Reg. 54. j 
Chabr^e'a runcina'ta. A Syngenesious plant, with weak, branching herbaceous stems, a foot 
or eighteen inches long, furnished with oblong, variously pinnatifid leaves, partially clasping the 
stem, at the base. The flowering branches have the character of a leafy panicle ; the leaves at 
the base of each ramification gradually decreasing in size towards the top of the plant, and 
clasping the stem more decidedly than those below them. The flowers are loosely disposed, and 
about three-fourths of an inch across ; when they first expand they are commonly white, but 
frequently change to a pale roseate tint. In placing this species in Chabrcea , Sir William Hooker 
follows Professor De Candolle, though he is not satisfied that it is really distinct from Leucheria ; 
and as it is apparently identical with the L. runcinata of Dr. Gillies, he has retained his specific 
appellation as being preferable to that of De Candolle (C. rosea). It is a native of Chili, par- 
ticularly on the Andes, and was raised in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent’s Park, and probably 
in other collections, from seeds sent over by Mr. Bridges. The flowers are fragrant. De 
Candolle named the genus in memory of Dominicus Chaubrey, of Geneva, a writer who flourished 
about the middle of the seventeenth century. Most likely the plant will require the protection 
of a greenhouse or frame. Bot. Mag. 4116. 
Cratcegus crenula'ta. (t This plant is the Pyracantha of the Indian mountains, and rivals 
that of Caucasus in its rich scarlet berries, which are, however, of a peculiar vermilion tint, and 
of a very depressed figure. Their flavour, too, is by no means ungrateful. In fact, if it would 
bear our climate with certainty, it would be preferable to the Pyracantha itself, for its leaves 
have a remarkably glossy surface, and the plant is, in all respects, handsomer. The shrub is a 
native of Nepal, whence it was long since received by Dr. Roxburgh, who named it, and says 
that in the Calcutta garden it had grown to the height of from six to eight feet in eight years jj 
