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advantage of plants which might require the warmth in winter 
rather than in the summer. If in front of a wall, a move- 
able verandah, which might be either ornamental or made of 
thatched hurdles or hurdle-gates, would throw off the wet, 
which is the principal cause of injury in winter, for many 
shrubs will endure the access of severe frost to the head, if 
all wet can be effectually excluded from the base of the stem 
and from the root by any sloped heading. Under such a 
verandah, with occasional heat to the flue, during the early 
summer, and perhaps in severe frost, Amaryllis, Brunsvigia, 
Buphane, Nerine, Hsemanthus, and all the allied genera of 
African bulbs, as well as the South American, would certainly 
succeed better than with any other treatment. I believe that 
not only those, but even some of the tropical Crinums, would 
succeed better so than in a stove, and probably many shrubs, 
which might not be expected to live there. The advantage 
of a verandah or pent covering, however rude, on the north 
side of a wall, for the protection of half-hardy plants, such as 
Camellia Japonica, Asiatic species of Rhododendron, &c. is 
not sufficiently known. It is the excitement occasioned by 
the access of the sun that makes such plants liable to injury, 
and a south aspect, whether in summer or winter, is preju- 
dicial to them. I believe that the covering of a pent roof 
in a northern aspect, without any flue, is more congenial to 
those plants than a greenhouse, with caution to prevent any 
heavy rain or snow from being driven upon them by a strong 
north wind, which is easily done by hanging mats along in 
such an emergency. 
Ganymedes Capax, flore pleno, p. 310. From the aspect 
of the bulb and young leaf of the plant sent to me under that 
name, I am satisfied that it is not a double Ganymedes, but 
a small Ajax allied to minor. I shall probably not see the 
flower before the publication of these pages. 
Habranthus punctatus. PI. 47. f. 1. Specim. Rey- 
nolds 54. ex Chili merid. Herb. Hooker. Folia carent ; sca- 
pus 2-i unc. biflorus, spatha 2-2|, ped. f-2| unc. per. If tubo 
brevi unc. ?) limbo pulcherrime punctato, (color roseus ? 
marginem versus pallidior? punctis quam plurimis, (saturate 
purpureis ?) The leaves are wanting. Scape 2^ inches, two- 
flowered, spathe from 2 to 2^ inches, peduncles from f to 2^ 
inches, perianth If, tube short, seemingly only ± long, limb 
minutely and beautifully speckled with deep red or purple ; 
general colour probably rose or purple, paler near the margins. 
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