Oi'o. ' Extracts. — -Floriculture, S^c. 
raiuy days. Toward the middle of September tliey should be gradually iuiired to 
the open air, and left there without covering till the following spring, when they 
should be put in another tub, and planted as before, with one-half fresh earth. — 
iiurd. Mag, 
CuLTUKE OF Brdgmansia arborea. — Mr. Arnold, gardener at Grove House, 
Cheshunt, planted one in a conservatory in 1829, and the spring following, 1830, 
he cut it down to within (i inches of the ground. lu the month of September, in 
the same year, it bore 200 flowers. In the spring of 1831 he cut it down to about 
8 inches of the root, and in the following October there were 355 flowers npon it, 
which he attributes to cutting down and supplying with liquid manure He 
keeps it free from insects by sprinkling tobacco- water on it, about twice during the 
summer. It delights in a rich soil, and is propagated by eyes, like the vine. — 
Gardener's Magazine. 
Culture of the Amaryllis Tribe. — When the bulbs begin to grow, more wa- 
ter is given, and if required, larger pots. If they flower before the leaves appear, 
they must be re-potted after they have ceased flowering; but no roots should be 
cut off, except those which are dry and rotten. The size of the pots must depend 
on the size and growth of the buib.s. Some may remain several years in the same 
pot. The roots will receive sufficient moisture by putting the pots in a pan, filled 
occasionally with water, which gives the bulbs more strength, and is more likely 
to save them from rotting than when the water is poured on the tqp. The soil 
used is one part loam, (free from oxyd of iron) and two parts leaf mould. Small 
stones must be put at the bottom of the pot to give a good drainage. The practice 
of taking up the bulbs and drying them, weakens and renders them more liable to 
rot, nor will they flower any sooner for it. — M. Offv ; Gard, Mag. 
New and Rare Pr,ANTS, figured in the Monthly Botanical Periodicals, for 
April; viz, — Edwards's Botanical Register, Loddiges's Botanical Cabinet, 
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Sweet's British Flower Garden, and Maund's 
Botanic Garden. — This plan, of only extracting the new and very rare plants, 
we have had in agitation for some time, but as we intimated on our cover last 
month, we intended to have deferred it until the second volume. We think 
it unnecessary to introduce into our pages, the names, figures, &c. of plants 
long known to our readers, unless some new discovery was attached; — our 
chief aim being, in reviewing the periodicals, to give early notice of any new 
plants, either introduced or discovered, or of such old ones as are rare and 
scarcely ki.own. 
DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS, OR EXOGENES. 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Lotus (irendrius, Sand Lotus, — An annual trailing plant, and probably hardy, it 
is rather ornamental as a border Hower. Flowers bright yellow. Native of, and 
introduced from, Tenerifl^e, by P. B. Webb, Esq. in 1831. — Bot. Reg. Culture. 
It will most probably, like the other species, grow well in sandy soil ; and may be 
propagated by seed. — Cond. 
Lupinus Murshalliunus, Marshall's Hybrid Lupine.— Raised by Mr. Marshall, 
gardener to Mrs. Langteys, Southborough, Kingston, Surrey, from seed of Z,. le- 
uidns, supposed to be impregnated by L. tometdusiis. Its habit is suffrutescent 
and bushy, like the male parent, and has the appearance of being very hardy. 
The flowers arc a blue colour, and rather showy. Culture, similar to the parents. 
— Sweet's Fl. Gard. 
:\IALVACK.E. 
HHjisetm Genvvil, Large Purple-eyed Hibiscus. — A shrub, growing to the height 
of 14 or 15 feet, which we conceive will prove a great ornament to the stove. The 
