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Epldendrum papillosum. This is one of the pseudo-bulbous class of Epidendra, 
by no means singular in its general habitude, or the tints of its blossoms. The 
pseudo-bulbs are almost globular, and the leaves very narrow, with a channel down 
the middle. The pedicels of the flowers are covered with minute warty excre- 
scences, as are likewise (though more sparingly and imperceptible) the outsides of 
the sepals. These last, together with the petals, are greenish brown, the labellum 
being yellow, with two large lateral ears, and three small purple stripes in the 
centre. The column is dark orange. Messrs. Rollison possess flowering plants. 
Genista monosperma. In the greenhouse of Messrs. Young, Epsom, we 
were much delighted, a few weeks ago, by witnessing a well-grown specimen of 
this most engaging plant, and inhaling its exquisite fragrance. The slender pensile 
branches were liberally bedecked with their dense bunches of pure white blossoms, 
and to those who have a taste for the really beautiful, it must be considered a 
particularly choice object. We are told that a large supply of honey is obtained 
from this plant at Teneriffe, of which it is a native. 
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"While the cultivator of choice fruits and esculents is exulting in the perfectly 
propitious character of the present season, and the agriculturist is also profiting by 
its occurrence to secure the attainment of objects which cannot ordinarily be 
fulfilled, we would not have the amateur of flowers alone blind to his interests, 
or regardless of those processes for which there is so fine a prospect of success. 
In our fickle clime, an early, unblighted, and altogether brilliant spring, like that 
just concluded, is too rarely experienced to admit of its effects on vegetation being 
neglected. It affords unequalled opportunities for hybridizing all kinds of plants 
that bloom during this and the ensuing months ; for collecting seeds from species 
that flower late, and have not generally sufficient time properly to mature their 
seminal organs ; for thoroughly ripening the wood of exotic kinds ; and for 
allowing to the ailing specimens of the latter class one or two months' liberty in 
the open ground, in order to renew their declining vigour. 
We will cursorily touch upon the chief of these questions. The practice of 
hybridization is one which we would cheerfully aid in extending, as it displays 
some of the most interesting triumphs of human art, and is always instrumental 
in introducing a decidedly worthier race than that upon which the first experiments 
are tried. Illustrations need not here be adduced. We desire, however, to see it 
embracing a wider field than it has hitherto occupied, and including annual border 
plants. These fugitive ornaments of our flower-beds cannot, we think, be too 
diversified ; and though they would not, probably, perpetuate their mixed features 
by seeds, every gardener now knows that a very desirable sort may be abundantly 
propagated by cuttings, and that the seeds of hybrids will continue to produce a 
