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first time in the Horticultural Society’s Gardens, Chiswick. It has a great profusion of pale yellow 
blossoms, and continues in bloom a considerable time. A most useful plant for bedding out. 
Gloriosa Leopoldtana. In the nursery of Mr. Glendinning, Chiswick, this variety has recently 
been in flower ; it differs from the old G. superha by the flowers being a self colour, that is 
all yellow ; most probably a variety only. It will be very useful to grow with the G. superha , so 
as to gain a variety of colour. The habit is the same in every respect. 
Gloxinia albo-coccinea. Some time ago we received from Messrs. Backhouse, Fishergate 
Nurseries, York, flowers of this charming hybrid Gloxinia ; we could not see the beauty of its 
colouring, from the flowers being much injured by carriage ; since then we have seen a growing 
specimen at Messrs. Rollissons’, Tooting, which quite reaches our expectation, and certainly it is 
the prettiest variety that has yet been produced. The flower is pure white, having a deep broad 
dash of crimson down the throat and lower petal. The habit is neat and good. 
Lobelia ccelestis. A very pretty and dwarf-habited Lobelia, with bright coerulean flowers ; 
the plant not rising higher than six inches, blooms freely, and will be a most useful bedding 
plant. 
Lobelia braziliensis. Another fine hybrid variety, but tall, being near four feet high, two of 
which are occupied by the flowers, which are closely fixed on the stem ; they are about an inch 
and a-half long, tubular, and a bright rosy carmine colour. We found both the above in the 
nursery of Messrs. Knight and Perry, King’s Road, Chelsea, 
Miltonia Candida. We have again to record a fine specimen of cultivation, a notice of which 
we hope will please our readers. The specimen was in flower a month ago in the stove of Messrs. 
Rollisson, Tooting, and had nearly forty flower-scapes, each having from six to eight of beautifully 
variegated flowers, fully developed, making a dense mass of bloom completely hiding the foliage. 
The plant was in excellent health, growing vigorously. 
Odontoglossum grande, var. labello album. Messrs. Loddiges, Hackney, have had some 
varieties of Odontoglossum grande blooming finely, much larger in flower, while the lower part of 
the labellum is quite void of the brown spots common to 0. grande. We thought the colour of the 
sepals and petals not quite so rich in the brown ; probably the lateness of the season may have had 
some effect in diminishing their brightness ; in other respects it is a very handsome and fine 
variety, worthy a place in every orchideous collection. 
Renanthera coccinea. A fine plant of this beautiful species was exhibited at a recent meet- 
ing of the Horticultural Society, Regent Street, by Mr. Woodham Death, of Nettleswell, Harlow, 
who stated that it was the third time of this specimen flowering in twenty-three months, a very 
rare occurrence, and one certainly never before under our notice, though Mr. D. says he finds no 
difficulty in blooming them. His treatment is to keep them in a cool greenhouse, fully exposed 
to the sun, with little or no artificial heat to assist them in blooming; and certainly a more 
handsome or better flowered specimen is rarely to be met with than the plant under notice. 
Salvia sp. nov. A fine looking species, having long racemes of deep violet-blue coloured 
flowers, has lately been flowering profusely in the grounds of Messrs. Knight and Perry, Chelsea. 
The plant grows about four feet high, sending laterals out close to the ground and up the stem, 
covered with flowers ; foliage ample, not large, and of a rich green. It will be a useful addition 
to the flower-garden. 
Ruellia Purdieana. In the nursery of Messrs. Rollissons, Tooting, we found this species in 
bloom. Like most of the tribe, the flowers are not produced abundantly, but only in pairs, one on 
either side of the stem in the axils of the leaves ; they are a brilliant rose colour, verging towards 
scarlet ; this colour, allied to neat and handsome foliage, renders the species rather attractive. 
Petunia sp. nov. Messrs. Veitch and Son, Exeter, have recently received from their collector 
in Peru a curious-looking species under the name of Nolana spe. } which most probably will neither 
belong to that genus, nor the Petunia, but prove a new genus altogether. It is certainly a very 
novel and beautiful flower, almost white, with a deep crimson throat, shading down the middle 
of each petal. The plant seems to have a creeping habit, has rather coarse foliage, downy, and 
of a pale green colour. Will be probably a most useful assistant to the hybridizer. 
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