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NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
It is altogether a smaller plant than its close 
congener, N. oblonga. Culture. — Requires 
to be started in spring in a very mild hot-bed, 
or warm pit, and to be grown during summer 
in a greenhouse-stove, that is, in a tempera- 
ture below that usual in a stove, and then in 
autumn removed to a light stove to blossom ; 
turfy peat and loam ; the tubers should be 
planted in broad pots or small-sized seed-pans, 
so as to get a broad mass of the flowers ; pro- 
pagated readily by its scaly roots, which re- 
quire to be kept dry and free from frost in 
winter. 
Crowea saligna, vcir. striata (upright- 
branched willow-leaved Crowea). — Rutaceae § 
BoronifiB. — A vei-y desirable variety of the 
well-known Crowea saligna. Like that spe- 
cies, it is a dwarf evergreen shrub, of branch- 
ing habit, with lance-shaped leaves, and a 
profusion of large rose-coloured starry blos- 
soms from their axils. In this variety, how- 
ever, the branches have all a remarkable ten- 
dency to grow erect, so as to give the plants 
quite a different aspect. The flowers are 
about an inch across, consisting of five pointed 
spreading petals, which give it a star-like 
form ; they are deep rose-colour, and are pro- 
duced freely along all the branches. Pro- 
bably a native of New Holland. Introduced 
? Cultivated in 1848. Flowers for 
several months of the summer and autumn. 
Culture. — Requires a warm greenhouse, and 
should have a little extra heat in spring ; 
turfy sandy peat ; propagated by cuttings 
planted in sand under bell-glasses in a mild 
heat. 
Nuttallia cerasiformis, Torrey 3; Gray 
(bird-cherry-like Nuttallia). — Rosacea? § Quil- 
laias. — A neat-looking dwarf deciduous shrub, 
with something the appearance of the bird- 
cherry. It grows two feet high, with thin half- 
transparent smooth foliage, of an oblong-ob- 
ovate, or oblong form, pale green above, rather 
glaucous beneath. The flowers grow in 
nodding racemes, which spring from the base 
of the young shoots opposite one of the earliest 
leaves ; they are small, greenish white, and 
have five petals, which soon fall. Native of 
California, in the woods near Monterey. In- 
troduced in 1848 by the Horticultural Society 
of London. Flowers in February and March, 
before the leaves are produced. Culture. — 
Hardy ; good garden soil ; propagated by 
suckers, by layers, or by seeds. 
Azalea ramentacea, Lindley (ramen- 
taceous Chinese Azalea). — Ericacese § Rhodo- 
dendreaa. — A neat dwarf distinct-looking ever- 
green shrub, possessing the general characters 
of the ordinary Chinese Azaleas. The leaves 
are flat, very obtuse, " often nearly round, 
and at the most only oblong." The flowers 
grow in spare umbels from the tips of the 
branches ; they are small, white, and have 
but five stamens ; the calyx and pedicels 
are without glands or setae, but are fur- 
nished with ramentaceous hairs ; these hairs 
form a fringe to the sepals, which are naked 
on the back. Native of China : said to 
be from Hong Kong. Introduced in 1846. 
Flowers in spring. Culture. — Requires a 
greenhouse ; turfy peat soil ; propagated by 
cuttings planted in sand under bell-glasses 
and set in the greenhouse. 
Echeveria laxa, Lindley (loose-flowered 
Echeveria) — Crassulacese § Crassulea3. — A 
distinct-looking and rather pretty perennial 
tufted succulent plant, with concave ovate- 
acuminate leaves, of fleshy texture, very glau- 
cous when young, becoming yellowish green 
with age ; they form a sessile rosette. The 
flowering stem is about two feet high, dull 
purple, having a few stalkless triangular- 
heart-shaped scales, and yellow flowers ar- 
ranged loosely on little stalks along one side 
of the long drooping arms of a racemose 
panicle ; the flowers are in appearance " like 
those of Sempervirum arboreum." Native of 
California, in woods near Monterey. Intro- 
duced in 1847. Flowers during summer. 
Culture. — Requires a cool airy greenhouse, 
and to be kept rather dry ; sandy loam and 
leaf-mould well drained ; propagated by seeds, 
or by the offshoots planted [as cuttings, and 
kept rather dry until they have taken root. 
Pinus Fremontiana, Endlicher (Nut 
Pine). — Pinaceas § Abieteaa. — A small ever- 
green tree, in its native country seldom grow- 
ing more than twenty feet high ; the branches 
are numerous, the principal ones being ranged 
around the stem in a whorl. The leaves, 
which are glaucous green, from one inch and 
a half to three inches long, stout, rigid, more 
or less curved, and ending in a spiny point, 
are generally found growing in threes, but 
not unfrequently in pairs, or even soli- 
tary. The cones are about two inches and a 
half long, and in the widest part, near the 
middle, one inch and three quarters broad ; 
they are light glossy brown, with from six to 
seven rows, of scales, which are thick, bluntly 
pyramidal, slightly angular, and more or less 
recurved. The seeds are oblong or ovate, 
half an inch long, with a thin shell easily 
broken between the thumb and finger, and 
contain a pleasant and nutritious kernel, which 
constitutes a principal source of the subsis- 
tence of the Indians of its native mountains ; 
they are produced in great abundance. Na- 
tive of California, on both sides the Sierra 
Nevada, " extending over the top of the great 
Snowy Chain for a distance of 300 miles." 
Introduced in 1847. Culture. — Hardy; 
sandy mountainous tracts; propagated by 
seeds. The beautiful almond-flavoured nuts 
