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EXTRACTS — FLORICULTURK. 
MAXILLARIA PICTA. 
Maxillaria picta. Painted Maxillaria (fig. 95) is a most beautiful plaut, 
a parasite like the other, the bulbs are about the size of a pigeon's egg, of a 
dark green colour, and bear one or two leaves each. Flower very handsome, 
petals within of a rich deep orange colour spotted with purple, and externally 
almost white, with spots and blotches of deep purple. The lip of a pale dirty 
white or cream colour, with but few spots, column of a deep purjjle. It is a 
native of Brazil from whence it was lately introduced by Mr. Wm. Harrison. 
Curtis' Bot. Mag. Culture — Similar to the Epidendrum. 
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On raising Roses from Seed. — Mr. Geo. Duncan of Scotstown, near Glas- 
gow, collected in Oct. 1826, the ripest heps of some Red Officinal, Portland, 
and Velvet roses, he laid them on a stone-paved floor, and rubbed them under 
a brick, to soften the seed vessels ; afterwards they were rubbed one by one be- 
tween the fingers. The seed was sown immediately on a wall border with an 
aspect opposite to the sun at eight o'clock in the morning. The soil was sandy 
