714 EXTRACTS. — FLORICULTURE. 
LABIATjE. 
CoLEUS AROMATicus. — Sweet scented Coleus. This plant appears to be very 
commonly cultivated in Indian gardens, chiefly on account of its great fragrance. 
The leaves are frequently eaten with bread and butter, or bruised and mixed 
with various articles of food, drink, or medicine. It is probably also indige- 
nous in that country : its flowers are purple and not remarkable for beauty. 
Culture. — It is a stove plant, and flowers from March to May : it grows in light 
sandy loam and peat, and may be readily increased by cuttings. In gardens it is 
often called Gesneria odorata. — Bot, Reg. 
CLASS II.— MONOCOTYLEDONES, OR ENDOGENES. 
ORCHIDEjE. 
PterostVlis Banksii. — Large-leaved Pterostylis. This plant is a native of 
New Zealand, where it was first discovered by Sir Joseph Banks, at the time he 
accompanied Capt. Cook round the world. It was also found by Mr. Allan 
Cuningham, in 1826, growing on the banks of a stream, which is received into 
the bay of Islands. — Bot. Mag. Culture. — It will require the heat of the stove, 
and we should think would thrive in peat and loam. 
Maxill^ria Placa'nthera. — Flat-anthered Maxillaria. A parasitic plant. 
Flowers yellowish green, spotted with brown. Introduced from Brazil by Mrs. 
Harrison. — Bot. Mag. Culture. — It requires a moist stove like the other plants 
of the same genus, and should be potted in turfy peat soil, mixed with a portion 
of decayed wood or saw- dust, and kept in a damp bottom. 
Maxillaria gracilis. Slender Maxillaria. This curious little plant is very 
slender in its habit, and its height does not exceed four inches. Flowers red and 
yellow, native of Brazil. Culture. — It requires a moist stove, and should be 
potted in moss vegetable earth, and small pieces of broken pot. It may some- 
times be separated for increase. — Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
New Seedling Cactus. — A new seedling Cactus, between speciosa and spe- 
ciosissima, flowered last April, in the gardens at Plaistow- Lodge, Bromley, 
Kent ; the plant consists of one shoot two feet high, with three large flowers on 
the top, of a deep scarlet colour. — T. Pressley. — Gard. Mag. 
New Variety of the Hawthorn. — This is one of the most lovely trees, 
and much more desirable than the old pink thorn, or as it is commonly called 
" scarlet thorn." The flowers of the new kind are each as large as two-thirds of 
the breadth of a sixpenny piece ; they grow in bunches containing from twelve 
to twenty flowers each, the petals are of a most beautiful carmine-crimson co- 
lour, except in their claws which are white, and thus constitute a white eye sur- 
rounded by a broad crimson orbit. — Gard. Mag. 
Culture of the Hibi'scus attenu^atus. — This beautiful plant can scarcely 
be propagated by seed. Being herbaceous, it dies down to the soil every year ; 
it should be kept dry, and free from frost during the winter, and re-potted in 
light rich soil, mixed with river sand in the spring. It should be placed in a 
frame, and abundantly watered during summer ; but in autumn, when the plant 
begins to lose its leaves, watering must be gradually left ofl", till it is in a state to 
have the stem cut over, and the pot containing the root placed in the back shed 
of a stove. — Pruss. Gard. Soc. 
Flower Seeds, when a few years old, are said to produce more double flow- 
ers than those which are sown the year after their ripening. — Prias. Gard. Soc. 
