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CABBAGE SmOUTS. 
by Mr. Fortune, collector to the Horticultural 
Society of London, soon after his arrival in 
China. Some of the bulbs sent home by him 
have produced flowers, in January last. Like 
most of the terrestrial kinds, the bulbs, or corms, 
lie dormant for some months after the foliage 
has decayed. Their cultivation is by no 
means well understood ; and they form fit 
objects for developing that skill and per- 
severance which British gardeners are so well 
known to possess. 
ANIGOZANTHOS PULCHERRIMUS. 
(Hooker.) 
THE BEAUTIFUL YELLOW ANIGOZANTHOS. 
This plant belongs to a genus of New Hol- 
land herbaceous plants, of which several other 
species are introduced to our green-houses. 
They are exceedingly interesting plants, and 
some of them, as in the present instance, are 
very beautiful. 
Anigozanthos pulcherrimus is a green- 
house herbaceous plant, the flower-stem of 
which rises from two to three feet high ; the 
principal leaves form a flattened tuft at the 
base of the stem, but the stem also produces 
leaves, but more remotely, chiefly where the 
branches spring out, and these stem-leaves 
become gradually smaller upwards : the form 
of the leaves is linear-falcate, pointed, and 
entire ; and they are clothed with dense 
greyish tomentum or down, which gives a 
hoary character to the branches, and lower 
parts of the stem, which latter is similarly in- 
vested. The stem is branched upwards, and 
becomes a large flowering panicle ; " the 
branches themselves are apparently clothed 
with a short yellow down, but which is 
partially concealed by copious bright red 
hairs, themselves beset with lesser horizontal 
hairs, imparting a rich red velvety hue to this 
portion of the plant." The flowers are pro- 
duced in a crowded manner at the ends of the 
small branchlets ; they are arranged in two 
rows ; individually, they are funnel-shaped, 
curved, divided at the end into six small un- 
equally spreading segments ; one division is 
split down further than the rest, and gives the 
flower an oblique character ; they are clothed 
outside with bright yellow hairs, of the same 
nature as those on the branches, while the 
inner side of the flower is white. 
The plant has not yet been known to pro- 
duce flowers in this country ; but small plants 
raised from seeds sent from the Swan-river 
settlement by Mr. James Drummond, are in 
the nursery of Mr. Lowe, of Clapton. From 
its peculiar nature, the dried specimens, 
however, sent also by Mr. Drummond, con- 
vey a full idea of the plant. 
The species of Anigozanthos require to be 
potted in sandy fibrous peat soil ; and to have 
a good proportion of pot room, well drained. 
While growing, they require, moreover, a good 
supply of water. A position in the green- 
house where they will receive an abundant 
share of light will be most proper for them ; 
one of the front stages near the glass will 
form a very eligible situation. Nothing can 
yet be said as to its season of flowering, but 
there is little doubt that it will prove to be a 
plant highly ornamental to our green-houses. 
All the species of Anigozanthos have their 
flowers covered with the short downy velvet- 
like matter already alluded to ; one species has 
green flowers ; a variety of it produces green 
and red blooms ; and another species has 
flowers of a brown or rufous colour. They 
are all green-house plants, and natives of New 
Holland. 
Anigozanthos belongs to Hasmodoraceaa, in 
the natural system of botany ; and to the 
Hexandria monogynia of the artificial arrange- 
ment of Linnams. 
CABBAGE SPROUTS. 
Very few people take half the pains they 
ought with Cabbages. When they are cut, no 
matter how, the stumps are left to bring 
sprouts, no matter when, nor how many. Now, 
the fact is, that when the sprouts begin to 
come, they should be all rubbed off 1 but the 
best, or at most two ; but if there be only one 
left to grow on each stump, it will grow faster 
and better, and be occasionally as good as the 
first head that was cut ; instead of which, a 
multitude of small ones are allowed to grow, 
