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Under favourable circumstances, two years will be sufficient to bring the M. 
Javendishii and M. Dacca , dc., into fruit ; but the larger growing kinds require 
hree years, generally speaking, to fruit. 
During the course of growth several suckers will be furnished by each plant, 
Ihese must be supplied with new soil, to assist their growth as much as possible. 
It remains to be added that Musas should be started into growth as early as possible 
in, Spring , and induced, by every possible means, to perfect their developments for 
he season, very early ; too much care cannot be exercised to accomplish this in 
proper time, and keep them in a quiescent state by withholding water, &c. , when 
heir growth has been matured. In starting them into growth it is also necessary to 
je equally careful, and proceed with the increase of heat and water gradually ; plants 
Aept growing very late in the season, or exposed to much moisture when they are at 
rest, invariably become injured, or lose their foliage, and very often become so 
unsightly as to render their remove necessary. 
Musa Cavendishii is the best for general culture, as it can be grown and fruited 
'wherever there is a space of soil eighteen inches square to be devoted to it in an 
ordinary stove ; liquid manure being abundantly given. The fruit of this excellent 
species is too well known and esteemed to require further mention. 
The above few remarks would probably suggest themselves to any person of 
experience, and therefore to them can be of little service ; but there are many 
cultivators who have, hitherto, had little opportunity of growing these plants, to such 
our observations will be of use. 
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NEW 7 OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED AND DESCRIBED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL 
| PERIODICALS FOR FEBRUARY AND MARCH, &c. 
iEcHMEA discolor. A singularly attractive plant, from the rich coral-red of the panicle, the 
flowers being of the same bright vermilion colour, and the calyx tipped with black ; also from the 
great length of time the plant continues in blossom, through the whole of the winter months. The 
unexpanded buds have a most striking resemblance to the well-known beads commonly called 
; « crabs’ eyes,” which are the seeds of Abrus precatoria , only that they are much larger. The 
species is probably a native of Brazil. — Bot. Mag ., 4293. 
Anigozanthos fuliginosa. This is one of the few new plants figured in the <e Botanical 
1 Magazine,” of which no living specimen yet exists in our gardens. It highly deserves cultivation, 
and is among the rarest of the genus yet found in Australia, and is thus noticed in conjunction 
with another species, A. pulcherrima , figured Bot. Mag ., 4180, in a letter from Mr. J. Drummond, 
; published in the “London Journal of Botany,” vol. iii., p. 263 : — “ By a ship now about to sail I 
send two fine species of Anigozanthos , collected by my son "(since killed by the natives) in the 
vicinity of the Moore River. The dark flowering one (A . fuliginosa ), of which but two specimens 
have ever been found in bloom, is a real mourning flower ; the upper portions of its ste,m and 
lower portion of the corolla being covered as it were with black velvet ; the corolla is deeply cleft, 
expands about two inches, and is of a pale straw colour. The species is not allied to any other yet 
discovered in the Swan River settlement.” — Bot. Mag., 4291. 
Angrascum funale. One of the rarest and least known of the West India Orchids, which 
