Floriculture. 
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and sweetly-blended gratifications which we desire from odors, 
flowers, and balmy breezes; and, above all, from the contempla- 
tion of renovated nature once more bursting forth into beauty and 
perfection. 
An error, not uncommon, in deciding which flowers shall be 
planted, is to select numbers merely for their rarity or novelty, 
without reference to what will be their appearance when in 
bloom, and which generally leads to disappointment. Unless for 
botanical illustration, make a choice of flowers on two principles — 
those which will be beautiful when in bloom, although common, 
and those which will bloom at the particular seasons required, to 
ensure a succession of variegated beauty from spring to autumn. 
The true amateur gardener takes a pride in improving even the 
common flowers — urging them by careful culture to the highest 
state of perfection, as to size and brilliancy of coloring, of which 
they are susceptible in our climate. 
NEW AND BEAUTIFUL FLOWERING SHRUBS. 
The WRiTE-LippEDVACcisirM, 
( Vaccinium leucostomum, Lindl.) 
Sp. Char. — Evergreen, hair- 
less. Branches erect, angular. 
Leaves oblong, nearly sessile, 
thick, slightly crenated, with 
indistinct veins Flowers in 
short 3 or 4-flowered erect 
racemes, which are clustered 
in the axils of the leaves, 
Bracts fringed with hair. Co- 
rolla urceolato - campanulate, 
with short erect (?) hmb An- 
thers, awnless.* 
This new shrub has 
been raised from Peru- 
vian seeds, received by 
Messrs. Veitch, of Ex- 
eter, from Mr. W. Lobb 
who found it growing 
at the elevation of 8000 
feet above the sea, at a 
place called Veto. It 
will probably require a 
greenhouse in the mid- 
dle and northern coun- 
ties of G. Britain, but 
may be expected to be 
hardy in the south west. 
It has not yet flowered, but Mr. Lobb states its flowers to be 
" scarlet tipped with white." It is perfectly distinct from any 
species in our gardens, but is nearly related to the close-headed 
Vaccinium (V. confertum, H. B. K.) of Mexico, differing in 
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