222 GREEN-HOUSE — REPOTTING. [March. 
clusters, pure white ; foliage small ; and natives of the Cape 
of Good Hope. The foliage of C. an'sfata is cordate and 
blotched. Some of the hardy species and varieties make 
beautiful plants for the green-house, such as Jldrida, Sleboldll, 
and ccerulea ; they are profuse bloomers, and fine growers. 
(Soil No. 3.) 
Clerodeiidron fragrans multiplex, double white, frequently 
known under the name of Volkamenia Japonica, which is a 
very different plant, and not supposed to be in this country. 
It keeps in a good green-house, and flowers well, frequently 
blooming during winter, and, if planted in the garden during 
summer, will flower superbly. The flowers have a delicious 
fragrance ; if the foliage is rubbed with the hand the smell 
is not so pleasant. The leaves are large, round, ovate, and 
tomentose ; flowers corymbose, compact, and terminal. (Soil 
No. 12.) 
Clethra arhdrea, and C. arborea varlegata, are both fine 
shrubs ; the latter is preferable ; leaves are oblong, acumi- 
nate, and serrated, having a gold-coloured edge ; flowers 
white, downy, in large branching racemose spikes, and sweet- 
scented ; grows freely. (Soil No. 2.) 
Olidnthus punicens, or Glory flower. This magnificent 
plant produced great excitement among European cultiva- 
tors, which consequently reached this country. The plant 
sold at extravagant prices, and cost the writer upwards of 
fifty dollars to introduce a living plant of it, which was done 
nine years ago. The plant has been cultivated in pots, and 
has not yet given general satisfaction ; the leaves are smooth, 
pinnated, of a delicate green, consisting of eight pairs; the 
stem is of a soft woody nature ; the splendid large scarlet, 
leguminose, pea-like flowers grow in clusters, hanging down 
from the axils of the leaves on the lateral branches ; each 
flower is about two inches long. It is a native of New 
Zealand, and is tolerably hardy. We have not been able to 
grow a solitary good specimen of it, and the only handsome 
plant we have seen was in the collection of Gen. R. Patter- 
son ; where it was planted out in the conservatory in Soil 
No. 10. 
(Ticra nob II lx, a tuberous herbaceous plant, closely allied 
to Brunsvigia. The flowers are said to be very splendid ; 
colour scarlet and green : although it has been in the coun- 
