NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS, 
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Mrs. Bacon. — Rosette outline, blush 
flower, good face, pretty good general form, 
and centre fair if not fine. 
Grenadier. — Rosette outline, dark crim- 
son, rather coarse, flat faced, and likely to be 
constant. 
Queen of Yellow. — Rather coarse, but 
may be now and then used if not grown too 
strong. 
White Perfection. — Yellow or green 
cast in the eye, high in the shoulder, round 
outline ; not very symmetrical on the face. 
Keepsake. — Dull crimson and pinky 
white ; fancy flower ; a fair acquisition to its 
class. 
Queen of the West. — Yellow roundish 
outline, petals rather coarse, eye close, but 
sunk, and face symmetrical. 
Queen of the East. — A flower in all 
respects equal to the Marchioness Cornwallis, 
but with more colour. 
But besides this description, which has 
proved, as usual, very close to the truth, we 
gave a general hint, by especially marking 
the Beauty of Hastings, Fearless, Rainbow, 
Miss Blackmore, Queen Dowager, Purple 
Standard, and Queen of the East, for those 
to which we should give the preference. We 
therefore reduced the task of selection to a 
small affair ; and if any of our selection prove 
uncertain, which in August and half way 
through September was the case with the 
Beauty of Hastings, it may be attributed to 
the officious meddling of inexperienced men, 
who have reduced the number to be shown 
from six to three ; and, if wc have omitted to 
notice any that deserved mention, it must be 
placed to the account of another foolish inno- 
vation, — the showing of seedlings without 
their names to them, but simply with a num- 
ber, so that we may take notes in vain, unless 
the showers place the names on after they are 
judged, which, if the flowers are not entitled 
to a prize, they very stupidly omit in many 
cases. Last year we saw and took notes of 
several, but never could get the names, and 
this year we are in the same predicament ; 
but the great show at Birmingham, which 
settles the fate of the seedlings of 1848 to 
come out in May, will perhaps set us to 
rights, as there will be no shuffling allowed 
there. Six blooms must be shown, and the 
name the flower is to bear must be placed on 
it. The metropolitan rules, which did more 
good to dahlia growers, and advanced the 
flower more, than all the other means com- 
bined, will be rigidly enforced ; and the 
result of that show will determine the list of 
flowers, which we shall strongly urge people 
to order if they want to run no risks. But 
of all the hundred and fifty varieties adver- 
tized to come out last spring, how many have 
proved good for anything ? Very few people 
who read our descriptive list ordered more 
than eight or ten ; and certainly the new ones 
of last spring have been very scarce in the 
stands of the present year, — few, if any, have 
proved as good as those we especially recom- 
mended. The dahlia trade is waning fast ; 
and if the growers do not make up their mind 
to decided steps, and get themselves fairly 
represented, people will rapidly fall off, and 
content themselves without new flowers at all. 
They will cease to follow floriculture as a 
science, and grow flowers as they did long 
since, insensible to anything but colour. 
NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
Dipladenia illustris, Martins (illustrious 
Dipladenia). — Apocynacese § Wrightese. — A 
very handsome herbaceous plant, with a 
tuberous wurtzel-like root, producing annual 
shoots a foot and a half high. The leaves are 
opposite, roundish-obovate, and as well as the 
stems clothed with a velvety pubescence. 
The flowers are showy, three or four pro- 
duced at the extremities of the shoots ; they 
are lai*ge, funnel-shaped, rose colour, with the 
throat purple. Native of St. Paul's, and of 
Minas Geraes in Brazil. Introduced to 
Belgium, by M. T. de Jonghe of Brussels, in 
1848. Flowers in July and August. It is 
the Echites illustris (Arrabida), and JE. in- 
signis of Belgian gardens. Culture. — Re- 
quires a cool stove ; light loam, leaf-mould, 
and sand ; propagated with some difficulty by 
cuttings. The tuberous roots should be kept 
dry in winter, and placed in a temperate 
greenhouse. In March they should be re- 
potted in five or six-inch pots, and placed in 
a moderately warm greenhouse, being at first 
slightly watered. When the tubers begin to 
push out from the crowns, the pots should be 
set near the front of the house, where the 
plants may have plenty of air, to prevent 
insects from attacking the plant, which is 
milky. 
Ccelogyne Lown, Paxton (Mr. Low's 
Coelogyne). — Orchidaceae § Epidendreas- Coelo- 
gynidse. — A very fine epiphytal species, with 
large pseudo-bulbs, and ample lance-shaped 
leaves two feet or more in length. The 
flowers grow in pendent racemes from the 
base of the pseudo-bulbs ; these racemes are 
sometimes as much as two feet or upwards in 
length. The flowers are very numerous and 
