FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR INTERESTING RECENTLY FLOWERED AND OTHER PLANTS, IN THE PRINCIPAL 
METROPOLITAN NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Centropo'gon Suriname'nsis. Scanty justice has been rendered this plant at page 149, as our 
readers would have acknowledged had they seen a plant exhibited at the last meeting of the Horti- 
cultural Society, in Regent Street, by Mr. Munnock, gardener to the Rev. Charles Pritchard, near 
two feet high, of proportionate extent in circumference, and bearing twenty-one such clusters of 
flowers as that which forms the subject of our plate. The plant is deserving of attention for the 
beauty of its blossoms, let alone their being produced naturally in December, as well as at other 
seasons. C. fcistuosum was the name the plant exhibited bore. 
Chrysanthemum. The Horticultural Society have introduced a pretty variety of this popular 
flower from China, which bears the name of the Chusan Daisy. Its habit is rather dwarf and it flowers 
very freely, producing pretty daisy -like blossoms, that are from half to three-quarters of an inch 
in diameter, double, yellowish in the centre, with rosy-lilac outer petals. It has been abundantly 
blooming in the Society’s garden of late. 
Cryptome'ria Japo'nica. This evergreen is, perhaps, among hardy Conifers what the Norfolk 
Island Pine ( Altingia excelsa), is to tender. The colour of its foliage is similar, it grows as rapidly, 
and is much like it in general aspect, but by no means so beautifully regular and handsome. Its main 
branches proceed alternately from the stem, and, as well as their branchings, droop much more than 
those of A. excelsa. The spine-like leaves are individually similar to Auraucaria Cunninghami's , and 
are disposed in like manner. Naturally 0. Japonica grows near a hundred feet high, and inhabits 
the principal Japan Islands. This country possesses it through the Horticultural Society, who have 
received it from Shanghai, in whose garden are many fine specimens, and through whom most 
metropolitan establishments have come by it. Synonyme, Cupressus Japonica. 
Ja'sminum nudiflo'rum. A very gay specimen of this plant was exhibited from the garden of 
the Horticultural Society, at their rooms, Regent Street, last month. Its slender, leafless branches 
were covered with large yellow flowers, growing from where the leaves had fallen. If, as was 
stated at the meeting, it is hardy, a rare novelty is in store for the open garden in winter, nor can 
the greenhouse afford to despise such an acquisition at the season its flowers expand. 
Lysiono'tus longiflo'rus. Under this name Messrs. Veitch sent from Exeter, to the December 
Regent Street meeting of the Society above mentioned, a plant similar in foliage and manner of 
growth to JEschynanthus Roxhurghii, bearing at the axils of the upper leaves of its main shoot, 
and from the axils of those of an upper lateral one, quite erect flowers. The latter have a small, 
dark-coloured calyx, with narrow segments, a long, very taper, funnel-shaped, vivid dark 
crimson corolla, with an arched apex, and much exserted stamens and pistil, of a very bright, light 
purple hue. 
QncTdium. J. W. Schroder, Esq., Stratford, Essex, has lately flowered a very fine member of 
this genus, with roundish pseudo-bulbs, and narrow rather short foliage. The flowers are produced 
in a panicle little disposed to branch, on rather long stalks, and have linear-lanceolate sepals, 
rather broader petals, both three-quarters of an inch long, yellowish, banded and spotted with brown, 
and a remarkably fine, large, at first bright-yellow, but soon becoming whitish, leathery lip, which 
has a long claw, at whose base is a small lobe on each side, and on its upper surface a channelled 
protuberance. The outer portion of the lip approaches an oblong shape, and in the largest flowers 
is an inch and a half long by one wide. We understand the species is from Vera Cruz. 
OPERATIONS FOR JANUARY. 
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This month may be one of great activity with the culturist, or furnish him little more 
occupation than the two or three which have preceded it. The business requiring attention is 
not momentous nor formidable in extent ; but much may be done that will lessen after toils, and 
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