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THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 
without some contrivance of this sort. We add the names 
of a few of the best: — 
Adam. 
Devoniensis. 
^Madame Margottin. 
Narclsse. 
Souvenir d^Elise Vardon. 
Belle Lyonnaise. 
Madame Willermorz. 
Bouton d^Or. 
Catharine Mermet. 
Souvenir d’un Ami. 
Mad. Adrienne Christophle. 
Corntesse Ouaroff. 
Madame Jules Margottin. 
Alba Rosea. 
NEW GLADIOLI. | 
We perceive that the successors of M. Souchet (who j 
has definitely retired from the culture of this lovely 
flower) have announced a goodly number of noveltie.s, 
and as they are in truth those which our valued friend has | 
himself nurtured, we have no doubt that some of them 
at least will maintain the high character of his seedlings. 
They are eighteen in number, and include some of a novel ! 
character. The more expensive, and therefore, as we may 
reasonably conclude, the best, are — Pysche, light satin 
rose, inferior divisions darker rose flamed bright carmine; 
Le Vesuve, fiery red ; L’Unique. Violet, large dark lilac, 
tinted violet and flamed dark carmine; Merveille, cherry 
red, slightly tinted violet; and Murillo, cherry rose, all i 
the divisions with pure white line, very large white spots i 
on lower divisions. ! 
A DOUBLE POINSETTIA. 
On my arrival in this country from the Royal Botanic 
Gardens in Edinburgh, in 1828, I paid a visit to the 
famed “ Bartram Botanic Garden,” and there saw two 
cases of plants which had just arrived from Mexico. | 
Among the contents were the stumps of a strange-look- 
ing Euphorbia, which, after a few months’ growth, j 
showed some very brillant crimson bracts. As soon as j 
I located, I made a small investment in the plant, and j 
grew the bracts to the enormous size of from 18 to 22 j 
inches. I sent, in 1830 or 1831, some plants to my i 
valued friend, the late Mr. M^Nab. At a breakfast i 
party in Glasgow the amiable lady of the late Sir Wm. ; 
Hooker gently chided me for imposing my Jonathanisms j 
upon them so-soon, by describing a plant having a crown j 
of terminal leaves as 20 inches in diameter, of brillant I 
crimson. The tens of thousands sold in Covent Garden I 
and this country every winter confirms all that I have i 
repi'esented. ! 
I now call }mur attention to a double Poinsettia, for, j 
from the dried specimen before me, I can give it no j 
other name. It is a towering bunch of crescent-formed 
bracts, at least 10 inches high and as many wide, which 
will, no doubt, when in the hands of expert cultivators, be 
grown to 18 inches high and as much in diameter. Such 
crowns upon well-grown plants, will surpass everything 
now known for table ornament, conservatory decoration, 
or the manipulations of the bouquetist. On a recent 
tour through the grounds of Mr. Isaac Buchanan, the 
millionnaire florist of New York, he drew me towards 
two plants of familiar outline, but, on inspection, I dis- 
covered a plant entirely new to me. “ Is this the double 
Poinsettia?” I asked. “It is; and I paid 1000 dols. 
in cash for it,” was the reply. The saddle-like foliage 
has a more graceful outline than the present Poinsettia, 
the nerves of deeper purple, the petiole (footstalk) has 
two erect stipules of about a quarter of an inch high, 
surmounted by two glands. I have no doubt, in the 
hands of a botanical professor, it will be made a new 
species, and electrify the floral world. — R. Buisx, Phila- 
delphia, U.S., October. {Gardners Chronicle) 
CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
WiLLi.m Chater’s Collection of Superb Hollyhocks and 
Roses. — In this Catalogue the veteran Hollyhock grower 
announces nine new varieties — six of his own, and three 
of Lord Hawke’s ; of these nine, four have obtained first- 
class certificates — a tolerably sure guarantee of their 
excellence. 
NEW WORK ON ORCHIDS. 
A NEW work on “ Orchids and How to Grow Them,” by 
Mr. Jennings, F.R.H.S., Vice-president of the Agri- 
Horticultural Society of India, is in preparation, and will 
shortly be commenced in monthly parts. The publishers 
are Messrs. L. Reeve & Co. 
NEW WORK ON ENTOMOLOGY. 
The same publishers are about to issue, in monthly parts, 
a new work on Entomology, by Mr. Owen Wilson, 
called “ Food Plants of the Larvae of the British 
Lepidoptera.” The work will contain descriptions of the 
Caterpillars, pupae, and perfect insects, with coloured 
illustrations, and a calendar of the times at which each 
may be found. The work promises to be a useful one to 
the public generally, and to gardeners in particular. 
FLORAL MAGAZINE. 
The present number completes the second volume of the 
New Series, for binding which handsome cases may 
be had through any bookseller, or direct from the 
Publishers on remitting 2s. 6d. in stamps. It cannot 
be sent by post, as it exeeeds the width allowed. 
BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. 
A NEW Issue of the Third Series of the Botanical Maga- 
zine in monthly volumes will be commenced next month. 
