FL0R1CULTURAL NOTICES. 
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PLANTS, NEW OR INTERESTING, IN FLOWER IN THE PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Azalea, var. Fielder’s white. In Mrs. Lawrence’s collection at Ealing, this fine variety is 
i)\v exhibiting its large and very good shaped flowers, of a pure white, spotted with greenish spots 
i the upper petals. The excellence of the flowers will gain this variety a good reputation. 
- Achimenes cupreata. A curious-looking plant, having foliage much in appearance of A. picta , 
I " at without the variegated character ; with small, but very bright, scarlet flowers, slightly notched 
; the edges, and yellow in the throat. Its habit is that of a creeper, hanging over the side of the 
at about two feet. What may be its value as to luxuriance of flowers, time alone can inform us ? 
jl ie specimen here noticed having but one flower expanded. It is from the collection of His Grace 
le Duke of Northumberland, Sion House. 
I Brugmansia sanguinea. This fine old plant has been for some time past flowering in the 
lost luxuriant manner in the conservatory of the Horticultural Society, Chiswick. It is wqII 
nown for its long, large, red and yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers, hanging from a mass of coarse 
jliage, which, in a small plant, has not much attraction ; but in the specimen here noticed, which 
3 large, being fourteen or fifteen feet high, and nine or ten feet in its widest part, and having such 
, profusion of flowers upon it, the plant is exceedingly attractive. 
Davesia, spe. A handsome species has lately been flowering in the Nursery of Mr. Glen- 
; [inning, at Chiswick. It has a tortuous stem, throwing out at every turn a leaf or flat spine, 
ery sharp-pointed, at the axils of which the flowers are produced in twos or threes, small, but a 
ery rich orange-yellow, having a dark spot of chocolate in the centre. It is a very handsome 
addition to the species, and now flowering for the first time in this country. 
Dendrobium spe. nov. At the recent Horticultural Fete, Messrs. Veiteh of Exeter exhibited 
liree new species of the Dendrobium. The first, in the bulb, is much like D. Paxtoni, as well as in 
he flower, having racemes holding upwards of ten yellow .flowers, with a small spot of deep 
1 :rimson in the throat of the labellum, which is of a paler yellow, and beautifully fringed at the 
idges. The second, in flower, is allied to D. aggregatum , only smaller, yellow, and the labellum 
oeing fringed ; the bulbs about four inches long, very thick and tapering to each end The third 
I species has bulbs about eighteen inches long, and half an inch in diameter, round and smooth, 
producing its flowers in pairs, at every joint up the stem : the flowers, though small, are very 
f pretty, being of a delicate rose-colour, richly improved by a large blotch of bright yellow in the 
labellum. The whole of these specimens are without foliage. 
Erica Imperialis. This handsome species has lately developed its fine flowers in the 
; nursery of Messrs. Rollisson, Tooting. It is rather rare in our gardens, though introduced 
1 many years since, and, taking the size of its flowers, which are two inches long, narrow, pale 
pink from the calyx, shading to near the division of the tube, when it becomes a bright green, 
these radiating at right angles with the stem at the top of each shoot in six, eight or more flowers, 
with foliage good and very handsome, makes the plant one of very considerable merit, and well 
i deserving its name. 
Gardenia Fortune A very handsome plant, having flowers as large and double as the White 
Camellia, richly scented, and a pure white, well relieved by a mass of rich, dark-green, glossy 
foliage. This species was introduced by Mr. Fortune to the Horticultural Society’s Gardens, 
Chiswick, where it has recently been in flower. 
Gompholobium spe nov. A very handsome and superior species is now flowering with Mr. 
Ayres, gardener to Jas. Cook, Esq., Brooklands, Blaekheath Park, and, as compared with 
G. polymorphum, exhibits a decided superiority, whether from its luxuriant habit, or the brilliant 
crimson, and profusion of its flower. This species will no doubt supersede all the varieties of 
G. polymorphum in cultivation. 
Houletia spe. A curious rather than handsome plant of this genus has been flowering from 
an imported bulb at Messrs. Rollisson’s, Tooting. It is very like H. BrocJclehurstiana in habit 
as well as the general appearance of its flowers, being about the same size, growing erect, of a 
