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narrow, pale green, and revolute at the edges; while the blooms, which are 
elevated on terminal spikes, are of a lively orange tint, and very pleasing. Though 
wanting the fragrance of H. coronarium, it is the most showy of the genus. Plants 
have been in the country many years, yet it is not cultivated as it deserves in 
collections of stove-plants. 
Impatiens glanduligera. We met with flowering plants of this stately Balsam 
in the greenhouse of Messrs. Henderson, Pine-apple Place ; and notwithstanding 
the beauty of the blossoms and their rich purple colour, it grows too large and too 
straggling to be decidedly ornamental. In open shrubbery borders, backed by tall 
shrubs, it might perhaps be planted with effect in the summer, as it is only a tender 
annual ; but it cannot with propriety be admitted to the greenhouse, for it occu- 
pies far too large a space, and is not sufficiently compact in its habit. 
Iris bicolor. Flowers of this beautiful new Iris have been successively 
opened for the last three months at Messrs. Rollison's, Tooting, where it is treated 
as a greenhouse species. It produces a great quantity of long narrow foliage, and 
the flowers are developed from sheaths, on the summit of slender scapes, from 
eighteen inches to two feet high. The hue of the blossoms is a pale sulphureous 
yellow, and they have a large deep purple blotch at the bottom of each sepal, with 
some pretty spots on the petals. It is an ornate plant, and worthy of culture for 
the elegance of its blossoms, as well as for the liberality of their production. 
Lcelia purpurascens. Not greatly unlike L. cinnabarina in appearance, but 
having shorter pseudo-bulbs, which are not so completely enveloped in sheaths, and 
exhibit more of their green colour. The flowers, too, have the same narrowness of 
the sepals and petals, and the attenuated curled description of labellum which was 
before thought peculiar to the species above named. It is their hue which chiefly 
distinguishes them, this being a pale pinkish purple. Mr. Butcher, gardener to 
Mrs. Lawrence of Ealing Park, has succeeded in flowering more than one specimen 
of this species, which have been shown at the Rooms of the Horticultural Society. 
It is new and attractive. 
Lobelia ti)pa. In the gardens of His Majesty the King of Belgium at 
Claremont, we observed may plants of this fine Lobelia blossoming in great perfec- 
tion about a week ago, and we have since seen smaller specimens at the Epsom 
nursery. It was fastened to a rough trellis at the end of one of the ranges of 
plant-houses, and attains the height of six or eight feet ; protruding from the 
summits of its branches, a spike of large, dark, and very rich red flowers. For the 
situation we have specified it is well adapted, or for the backs of large borders . 
It requires something at least higher than itself in its rear, otherwise its tall 
stems will be too much exposed to view. 
Miltonia Clowesii. Neither the lovely M. sjpectabile nor the equally 
beautiful M. Candida can at all vie with this most desirable plant in the intensity 
and brilliance of the colours of its flowers. The form of those of M. Candida is 
preserved in them, however, and, for the most part, the disposition of the hues u 
