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Thunbergia aurantiaca. We have not the least scruple in' declaring that this 
splendid species will, when its merits are properly known, speedily eclipse all the 
Thunbergias at present cultivated in our stoves. With the free-growing habit, and 
incessant propensity to flower for which T. alata has long been remarkable, it has 
blossoms of a larger size, and of a more superb light orange colour, than almost any 
other plant within the range of our observation. As we shall very shortly publish 
a beautiful drawing which has been prepared for our Magazine, we will merely 
now apprize our readers that its flowers are most abundantly expanded at Messrs. 
Young's, Epsom, and that it is a truly invaluable object. 
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In many extensive gardens which we have lately had an opportunity of visiting, 
cultivators are lamenting, and with reason, the little heat and extreme super- 
abundance of moisture during the last months of the summer. Some of the more 
tender kinds of plants have not yet been enabled to perfect their growth ; and 
from Camellias, Rhododendrons, and Azaleas, that were not timeously subjected to 
artificial heat, there is a great probability that few flowers will be obtained in the 
ensuing season. 
It is utterly useless, at this advanced period, to endeavour to prepare any 
plant of this sort for flowering next year ; but unless the wood is likewise 
properly matured, there will not be the slightest reasonable prospect of greater 
fertility in the one succeeding that ; and plants of other genera, that flower much 
later, may even now derive considerable benefit from a prudent application of a 
trifling degree of fire-heat. 
We will, however, more particularly notice those plants, including greenhouse 
and half-hardy species, that have been placed in the open air, or planted in the 
flower borders. Unless the culturist be regardless whether they are preserved or 
destroyed, he should immediately commence potting such as were turned out of 
their pots, and transferring both these, and all others that belong to warmer 
climes, to a greenhouse or frame. Our reasons for recommending so speedy a 
removal will at once be perceived by the experienced ; but, for the satisfaction of 
those who may not so readily apprehend them, and who indulge a laudable deter- 
mination not to follow blindly any precepts, by whomsoever delivered, we shall 
briefly insert them. 
Plants that have been for some time previously kept in pots will, when trans- 
planted into an unrestricted medium, inevitably grow with extraordinary vigour, 
and, in the absence of any influence to restrain their luxuriance, continue increasing 
till the actual occurrence of frost. This condition is, almost more than any other, 
to be carefully avoided ; for, by allowing a plant thus to expend its energies in 
