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NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS 
that bloomed last month, are getting shabby ; 
the gardener will take them up by the end of 
the month, and put them away in a dry place 
to be taken care of against mice, mildew, and 
vermin ; they are often preserved, like the 
late ones, in chests of drawers with wire out- 
side, so that they shall liave plenty of air, 
whilst no vermin get at them. The hyacinths 
will also require the same care. The beds of 
single anemones seem to. have no positive 
season for blooming ; some of them appear 
to be always in flower, and greatly help to 
enliven the place wherever they are planted 
in masses. The man appears to be sowing 
late annuals, or rather, the last season's an- 
nuals ; for they are the same kinds as were 
sown the last two months, and which are up 
in the borders where they were sown, while 
others of the same kind, reared in heat and 
planted out, are quite forward. All the 
bulbous-rooted plants, such as irises and 
gladioluses, lilies, and others, have pushed 
their way into notice, and most of the herba- 
ceous perennials are coming very strong. 
The borders may now be safely forked again 
without danger of injuring anything under 
ground. There are many of the dahlia plants 
already out — all those intended for the first, or 
early blooms ; the others will be held back till 
the middle of next month, to come in succes- 
sion ; but unless those little flower-pots, which 
you see on short sticks close by the plants, are 
examined daily from this time forward, and 
the earwigs destroyed, with any other living 
vermiin that may be found in them, they will 
get so much ahead as to destroy some of the 
finest blooms in spite of all that can be done 
afterwards, as many who begin later find to 
their cost. There is a little moss in the 
bottom of the pot to entice them. 
NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
Gloxinia fimbriata, Hooker (fimbriated 
Gloxinia). — Gesneraceaa § Gesnereaa. — A 
very distinct and rather pretty-looking species, 
a perennial, with elongated scaly roots, erect 
herbaceous stems, a foot and a half high, 
tinged with red, and opposite, ovate, acute, 
serrated leaves, full green above, paler be- 
neath. The flowers grow from the axils of 
the leaves ; they are large, declined, oblique, 
with a somewhat funnel-shaped tube, and a 
large spreading limb of five rounded lobes, 
waved and fimbriated on the margin ; the 
tube is yellow inside, sprinkled with red dots, 
the rest of the flower white. The plant is 
altogether taller and more slender than the 
majority of the species, in these respects 
according with G. tubiflora. Native country 
not known. Introduced from Paris, in 1848. 
Flowers in September. Culture. — Requires 
a stove ; complete rest in winter, and ex- 
cited gradually in spring ; light loam and 
leaf mould ; propagated by means of the 
scaly tubers, which admit of division. 
Gesnera pict a, Hooker (painted Gesnera). 
— Gesneraceae § Gesnerese. — A very showy 
herbaceous plant, having tuberous roots, and 
growing two, three, or more feet in height. 
The stems are densely clothed with purple- 
red down, mingled with long spreading hairs ; 
these stems support the opposite (or ternate) 
leaves, which are ovate acuminate, very 
hairy, crenately serrate, one side of the blade 
decurrent on the petiole. The flowers grow 
in long leafy racemes, the leaves in this part 
of the stem being smaller and of a rich red- 
purple colour on the under side. In these 
racemes the flowers are arranged in whorls ; 
they are tubular, somewhat ventricose on the 
lower side, with a hairy and velvety surface, 
contracted at the mouth, where it divides 
into five short rounded spreading lobes ; the 
colour is scarlet, yellow beneath. Native of 
Columbia. Introduced in 1849. Flowers 
through the summer and autumn. Culture. 
— Requires a stove ; complete rest in winter, 
and to be gradually excited in spring ; light 
loam and leaf-mould ; propagated by dividing 
the tubers when in a state of rest. 
Kennedya eximia, Lindley (choice Ken- 
nedya). — Fabacese § Papilionaceas-Kenne- 
dyeae. — A handsome climbing plant, of ever- 
green habit, with twining hairy stems, bear- 
ing trifoliate leaves of ovate-oblong leaflets, 
which are slightly hairy, and of a lovely 
green. The flowers grow in axillary racemes, 
the calyx green, tinged with reddish brown, 
the corolla scarlet, with a yellow blotch near 
the base of the standard, the keel shorter than 
either the wings or standard. It is a very 
profuse flowerer, and is, when in bloom, a 
mass of brilliant scarlet and gold. Native of 
Australia, in the Swan River colony. Intro- 
duced in 1845. Flowers in April and May. 
It is the Kennedya tdbacina (Labillardiere). 
Culture. — Requires a greenhouse ; light 
loamy soil, with heath-soil and sand ; pro- 
pagated by cuttings of the half-ripe shoots, 
placed in a gentle bottom heat. 
Epidendrom gravidum, Lindley (heavy 
Epidendrum). — Orchidaceas § Epidendreae- 
Laeliadaa. — A mere botanical curiosity : cer- 
tainly as far removed from beautiful as any 
plant can be. It has a scape nearly six inches 
high, bearing about four long-stalked, hori- 
zontal small green flowers, which never open, 
but stand on the end of a large lengthened 
fusiform deep olive-green ovary, covered with 
pale-green warts. This singular ovary, not 
