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stove ; tliat is, to grow each species as it ought to be grown. The decreasin 
price of glass, however, will eventually render the erection of more houses a muc 
less expensive undertaking. We would therefore suggest a separate house to b 
devoted to this family conjointly with the tribe of Gesneraceous plants, which il 
also already too extensive to allow even the choice species and varieties alone to b 
cultivated properly in the miscellaneous stove. And, let it always be rememberec 
that a few specimens well grown are ever infinitely more beautiful and pleasin, 
than the myriads of half-starved plants, almost destitute of flowers and of foliage 
which disgrace the collections of those who grasp at more than their mean 
can accomplish. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS ■ 
FOR SEPTEMBER. 
Antgoza'nthus pulcher'rtmus. “ One of the most beautiful of this fine genus from it 
copious and richly coloured flowers and flowering branches ; the former being bright yellow, thi 
latter clothed with scarlet hairs, curiously branched on a yellow ground. It is a native, ^ 
continues Sir William J. Hooker, “ of the Swan River settlement, where it was detected by ou: 
indefatigable friend, Mr. James Drummond. From seeds sent by him, it has been raised b| 
Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery, to whom the Royal Botanic Garden owes the possession of 
fine plant. It has not yet, as far as I am aware, bloomed in this country, and our figur| 
is taken from a dried native specimen sent by Mr. Drummond, in which, from the nature 
of the plant, and peculiarity of its vestiture, the form and colours are as well preserved ai^ 
if seen in a living state. Perhaps in the general structure of the blossoms it comes nearest hi 
A.Jlavidus ; but the flowers are much shorter, and the panicle, and leaves, and clothing, are al 
very different in the tw'o species. It loves a light sandy soil, and the protection of a good green 
house, and will prove a highly ornamental plant to our gardens.” When in flower the plan| 
stands two or three feet high. The leaves are of a linear falcate form, with an acuminahl 
termination, and are clothed with a dense hoariness. They are most abundant, though smaller}! 
towards the bottom of the stem, gradually becoming more remote and longer upwards. Upoiji 
the flowering-stem the leaves again decrease in size, till it becomes a large flowering paniclei 
with lanceolate bracteas at the origin of the branchlets. There are several flowers on eacl| 
branchlet, which, with their large size and rich yellow colour, cannot fail to prove highly 
attractive. Bot. Mag. 4180. j 
Aza'lea LiETi'ii^. A handsome and fragrant garden hybrid, reared by the Hon. and Rev; 
the Dean of Manchester, in his garden at SpofiForth, who gives the following account respectingl 
it. It “ was obtained, with others, from seed of a common Rhododendrum Ponticum, impreg] 
nated in the greenhouse at Spofforth by pollen of Azalea. Several seedlings raised there| 
perished, as well as others, by the pollen of an orange Azalea, and a multitude of the stock ofj 
seedlings from Rhodora Canadensis, by Azalea Pontica, of which one of the survivors, under th^ 
name Az. Seymouri, has been figured ; and also of Rhododendron arbor eum, by the variety o^ 
Azalea called mirahilis. From the difficulty of finding any soil in the neighbourhood that would;S 
suit these hybrid plants, which are delicate before they have acquired strength, the soil at Highclerej 
was more congenial to their growth, and some from this seed by Azalea Pontica were preserve^! 
there. I have one yellower than this, of which the leaves are rather more durable, and one of 
which the colour is tinged with a coppery purple. The leaves are rather more durable, broader 
and blunter, than the leaves of Azalea Pontica ; but in this, as in almost all hybrid plants, the male 
type greatly preponderates. It is difficult to conjecture why, in expelling the purple of the female 
flower, the yellow of the male should have substituted white. The mode in which colours act in 
