202 GREEN-HOUSE — REPOTTING. [March. 
piirea pleno, double purple. This variety is not so fine as 
many of the others. Properly it is not purple, or if it may 
be termed so, the colour is very light, and the flower irregular. 
Indica phoenicea, rich purple and a free grower. Indica 
smithii of the French, and Indica purpurea of the English, 
are alike, pale lilac and very profuse of flower. Indica coc- 
cinea, bright scarlet, a superb variety, and extremely abun- 
dant of bloom. Indica fiore variegdta flowers beautifully 
variegated, pink and white. Lateritia, salmon colour, fine. 
Williamsii, bright, rich crimson. Powleii, rosy purple. 
Prince Albert, very large, bright rosy crimson, of strong 
growth. Maitlandii, pure white, striped with pink, dwarf 
habit. Copeii, bright rose. Daniehiana, bright red. In- 
dica cdrnea, delicate, flesh colour. Indica nova blanv, white, 
with a greenish-yellow spot on the upper petals. Rubro plow, 
double red, of very erect growth. Spectabilis, rose and violet. 
Indica elegdns, bright rosy purple, a very profuse flowerer 
and of a neat habit. Indica Gillinyluonia, very large lilac, 
and of a strong habit. Striata formosissima, white striped 
rose. Harticiij, very bright crimson. Azalea sinensis [does 
not belong to the \ndica tribe ; it is of a hard woody nature, 
flowers of a golden yellow, in large clusters ; it no doubt will 
prove a hardy species. The varieties and sub-varieties of in- 
dica will, in a few years, be so numerous that the greatest dif- 
ficulty will be to keep clear of those that are not decidedly 
distinct; to obtain this object our own feeble exertious will 
be industriously applied. We might have named a few other 
varieties, but they so nearly approach some of the above, that 
it is better to avoid them. A choice selection of the Chinese 
Azalea ought to be in every green-house j they arc all easy of 
culture, and bloom freely from February to May. The pots 
must be well drained and shaded from the sun during summer, 
though the tops of the plants do best to have the full rays, to 
which we have them fully exposed, and find that by such 
treatment they are every year completely covered with their 
flowers and grow more stiff in habit than when the whole 
plant is shaded. They should be repotted as soon as done 
flowering in soil No. G when they are flowering plants, and in 
soil No. 5 when young plants. 
Bdnksias. There are about thirty-two species, all curious 
in flower, and handsome and various in foliage ; flowers in 
large heads of cone shape, anthers mostly green, and continue 
a considerable time in flower ; produces a cone in shape of a 
