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fascinating. Messrs. Rollison and Messrs. Loddiges have flowering plants in their 
possession, which are placed on flattish blocks of wood, and watered freely in the 
summer months. It grows with the greatest freedom, but must be most carefully- 
preserved from damp during winter. 
Eria densiflora. Like the plant just noticed, this is a small but exceedingly 
neat species, very different from most of the rest in its dwarf habit, and perhaps 
superior to them in attraction. Its stem -like pseudo-bulbs are from three to four 
inches long, pale green and fleshy, and surmounted by a short, dense, pendent 
raceme of delicate whitish blossoms, the pink and other coloured spottings and 
marks on which are highly interesting. Plants in the nursery of Messrs. Rollison, 
Tooting, are now bearing flowers, and are truly elegant objects. 
Fuchsia decumbens. The chief distinction of this curious Fuchsia, which is 
certainly rather novel to us, is its depressed creeping character, the stems and 
branches all inclining towards the earth, and not rising higher than a few inches. 
In its leaves and flowers it is not far removed from the old F. coccinea ; though 
there is less of rankness, and a greater profusion of blossoms, than is common 
to that species. For planting on rock- work in a situation where it can be triflingly 
sheltered in winter, nothing can be more appropriate, and it would constitute a fine 
ornament of such a department. We are told, likewise, that when kept in a pot, 
and hung from the roof of the greenhouse, its shoots will droop over the sides of the 
pot, like those of Russellia juncea, and flower most abundantly. We met with it 
in an open border at Messrs. Young's, Epsom, where it is growing at the present 
season. 
Gloxinia rubra. A most splendid species of Gloxinia, imported indirectly 
from South America, and having rich reddish-crimson flowers, with a much darker 
throat, is blossoming with Messrs. Young of the Epsom nursery. It forms quite a 
new feature in the genus, and is of great beauty and value. We mention it now, 
simply to direct attention to it from those who have opportunities of visiting the 
establishment, and we shall shortly publish an excellent figure which our artist has 
taken. 
Gompiiolobium drumm6ndii. One of the products of the large quantity of 
seeds which Mr. Low of Clapton received from the Swan River Colony last year. 
It is now developing its flowers in the Clapton nursery, and is named after Mr. 
Drummond, the collector. The blossoms are of a pale yellowish colour, very like 
those of G. tenue; the habit, however, being purely shrubby, rigid, strong, and 
the stems capable of supporting themselves, with small and simple leaves. 
It is inferior to its congeners, and has no particular merit besides its shrubbiness, 
Helichrysum robustum. Among the plants raised from the Swan River 
seeds above alluded to, this handsome Helichrysum, to which we presume no other 
appellation has been applied, is a conspicuous specimen. It has been raised both 
in the Clapton and Epsom nurseries, as well, probably, as in other gardens, and 
its very robust mode of growth, large foliage, and yellowish-white everlasting 
