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Birmingham. It is a most graceful and interesting species. “ Its flowers are of one deep rose- 
colour, a little heightened at the lower part of the lip, and they droop gracefully from the end of a 
slender elastic scape. The unusually long peduncles add to the elegant appearance of the species.” 
It most nearly resembles L. rubescens and L. acuminata ; from the former it differs in the lip not 
having the hairiness of the lip of that species, and from the latter, in its petals and lip not being 
wavy and sharp-pointed, as are those of L. acuminata. In cultivation it may be tied to a block of 
wood, or potted in a turfy-heath mould. During the period of its growth a high temperature 
and moist atmosphere should be maintained, with a pretty abundant supply of water, to be 
gradually withheld as the plant ceases growing. It should be shaded from the hottest suns of 
summer, and in the winter season not subjected to a higher temperature than 65°. — Bat. Reg. 69. 
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So singularly favourable for gardening operations in the out-door department has the weather 
been since the welcome cessation of the long-continued rains of last autumn, that, where a wise and 
persevering determination has seized such agreeable and unlooked for advantages, little or nothing, 
in the ordinary way of alterations and improvements, or of the usual work, the peculiar allotment 
of each season, now remains to be accomplished. Where any of either class is still existing, the 
crowd of objects that daily begin to force themselves into notice, as requiring immediate attention, 
will furnish a sufficiently convincing proof of the necessity of their being speedily completed. 
Any projects that have been undertaken, and that unavoidably require every exertion and all 
the available force at command, to insure a desirable conclusion, in preference to hurrying the 
whole to a completion, and neglecting what should be immediately executed, it will be more perma- 
nently advantageous to carry out : an arrangement that would insure the execution of extensive 
works, by fixedly giving a prompt attention, and a first consideration to what is of most importance ; 
gradually overtaking, with a convenient but substantial finish, what is of less moment. Such a 
method of procedure will be found more eminently beneficial than giving over, to the least symptom 
of neglect, those departments which will not bear it with impunity ; in common with these last, 
consigning those which are usually considered of less consequence, to a similar disregard, till even- 
tually, from necessity, all is gone through with an injurious haste, little in accordance with the care 
circumstances entitle them to receive. 
In pursuance of previous directions, shrubbery and other borders in the flower garden and 
pleasure ground, which have not yet been operated upon, should be actively dealt with, by first 
seeing to the pruning of the various shrubs which occupy them, and which may require a careful 
application of that process upon them. When pruning such things as Roses, Loniceras, and similar 
genera, and removing suckers from them, the latter may be placed in the reserve ground, there to 
establish themselves, till required elsewhere. 
In pruning Roses, and various other flowering shrubs and climbers, by varying the period of opera- 
tion, a corresponding variation in the time when their flowers are produced will, to some extent, take 
place. It is especially desirable, by skilfully applying the operation in question, as it is each time 
performed, to obtain throughout the whole parts of climbers, and flowering trees, and shrubs in 
general — particularly those in conspicuous points of view — an equal distribution of fructiferous 
wood. Specimens occupying trellis-work, trained on fences, or against walls, will, in their appear- 
ance when flowering, to a great degree be improved, if such a result is obtained in them. The 
various supports of the description of specimens just referred to should be carefully examined, 
putting them in efficient order. 
Where planting trees and shrubs has been unavoidably delayed, its performance should receive 
immediate attention ; every care being taken when removing and planting them : the various 
directions for the proper performing of which we have in another place recently given— always 
necessary — should now be scrupulously adhered to. 
It is strictly necessary in planting any rare evergreens, or other more than usually valuable 
plants, to devote untiring zeal to insure their being skilfully managed. Such being piaced in con. 
spicuous situations will especially come under this direction. Repeated waterings, whatever is the 
