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of which the ground colour is yellow ; but the broad transverse bands of reddish- 
brown with which they are so liberally marked render the yellow scarcely per- 
ceptible. From a specimen which is at present developing its flowers in the 
collection of Messrs. Loddiges, we are led to conclude that its dwarfness and 
generally alluring character entitle it to the designation of one of the neatest species 
of the extensive genus to which it belongs. 
OPERATIONS FOR NOVEMBER. 
No more trying month than November for tender plants, or one the influence 
of which is longer and more prejudicially felt by them, if not properly counteracted, 
can be selected throughout the whole year. With an external temperature 
commonly oscillating, as it were, between mildness and frost, and an atmosphere 
very generally surcharged with vapour, it is quite an arduous task to keep exotics 
from being either too much excited, too damp, or too cold ; all which conditions 
are to be carefully shunned. 
It is now, indeed, that the qualifications of the cultivator will be exhibited. 
If dormancy has been timeously induced, and the annual developments duly 
ripened ; whatever weather may be experienced, the plants will be prepared to 
sustain it : and with the requisite attention to the maintenance of a sufficient 
degree of dryness, no injury can result to any of the objects of solicitude. In this 
case, the experience of the manager will be at once manifested. But if the vessels 
of vegetation be yet filled with fluids, and their branches, consequently, be still 
green and imperfect, a want of consideration will be apparent, for which no subse- 
quent care can fully compensate. 
In all sorts of plant-houses, save such as are employed for forcing, or for 
protecting plants to which continual stimulation is useful, one great principle of 
action, so far as relates to temperature, should be observed. Whether the species 
require the heat usual in a greenhouse, a stove, or a structure of intermediate 
temperature, the thermometer ought always to be regulated according to the 
vicissitudes of the seasons, and kept just so many degrees above the ratio of a 
shady situation in the exterior air. An absurd practice of maintaining a tempe- 
rature never below 50° in the stove during winter, has long prevailed, and cannot 
be too strongly spoken against. Where it is pursued, likewise, the summer heat 
is brought as low as possible, and the nearest practicable approximation to uniformity 
of temperature throughout the year is sought. 
A very trifling scrutiny into the peculiar course of the seasons in tropical 
countries will show that this system is wholly unnatural, and that there is a cold 
period as well as a warm one in most localities. The most rational way, therefore, 
of treating all exotic plants in this country, is to let them enjoy the full benefit of 
solar influence (at least, to a prudent extent, and still through the medium of the 
