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add that Stanhopea tigrina^ which has lately bloomed at Messrs. Loddiges', Messrs. 
Rollison's, and, we believe, Messrs. Henderson's, Pine-apple Place, displays different 
kinds of markings to its flowers in each specimen. The purer sort, blossoms of 
which have latterly been unfolded at the Hackney nursery, has a number of compa- 
ratively small rich blotches ; in others they run into each other irregularly ; and a 
few have all the lower part of the sepals and petals completely obscured with dark 
purple. Peculiar treatment is generally the cause of these variations ; for the 
same plant will sometimes produce flowers in two successive years that could with 
difficulty be identified. 
OncIdium hastatum. Of this new species, which flowered a few months ago 
at Messrs. Loddiges', and is now to be seen in a blooming state in the orchidaceous- 
house of Messrs. Rollison, it will be sufficient to say, that it is of the pseudo- 
bulbous division, and has blossoms of a moderate size, in which brown and yellow 
are most prominent, and the lip of which approaches in shape to that of a halbert. 
Without being striking, it is deserving of some degree of notice. 
Pimelea nana. As its specific name indicates, this Pimelea is of a dwarf 
habitude, and does not attain more than nine inches or a foot in height. It is 
profusely coloured with long hair, its foliage is small and narrow, and the blossoms 
are borne in terminal clusters. They are pure white, and rather pretty. Mr. Low 
of Clapton procured seeds from the Swan River Colony, where they were collected 
by Mr. Drummond, and plants germinated from them are flowering in the Clapton 
nursery. From the readiness with which it bears flowers so soon after its seeds 
have vegetated, — several plants having blossomed early in last spring, — it gives 
evidence of being a very free-blooming species. 
OPERATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER. 
Proprietors are now almost universally enjoying their country estates, and 
while in the midst of their gaieties, they are apt to defer attendance to rural duties 
which cannot so satisfactorily be performed at an after period. We therefore claim 
a professional privilege of acting the monitor, and instigating them to consult with 
their gardeners and friends concerning what alterations require effecting in the 
ensuing winter, what plantations making or thinning, large trees removing, 
buildings erecting or improving, and many other operations which affect the 
general character of a domain. 
While trees and shrubs are clothed with foliage, and all nature is verdant and 
smiling, it is far easier to determine the effect of any contemplated improvement 
than in the dead of the winter, when everything seems exanimate and wears a 
totally different aspect. It is needless to say how much a landscape takes its tone 
from the arboreous forms of vegetation, whose individual influence can only be 
