NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
mentioned ; and, as soon as they have begun to grow fast, top some of the most vigorous shoots. In 
fact, begin by these means to get your plants into good order and form. In May, change them to larger 
sized pots — eight or nine inch ones — and let them stand in an open situation, with the benefit of all the 
sun, but plunged into some dry medium up to the rim of the pots, to prevent the sun from burning 
the sides of the pots and damaging the fibres. They need not be taken up till the beginning of 
October, when they may be removed into a house by themselves, or in any place where they will be 
kept in a strong light and be protected from winds and frosts. If the pots are pretty full of fibres 
they may want another shift, but, if not very full, they may be bloomed in their present pots. If 
they are confined and cannot be removed into others, give them at every fourth watering liquid 
manure, such as would be made by putting a good shovelful of thoroughly decomposed dung into 
eighteen gallons of water, and well stirring them together for two or three days. This will be as good 
as re-potting. Regulate the number of blooms so as not to have them crowded ; and, above all things, 
take especial care that they are not at any time distressed for water during the whole period of their 
growth, for the certain result of this would be discolouration of the leaf or its falling off altogether. 
The plant will require supports, which should be neatly put to them, so that the foliage may 
conceal them. The plants to show dwarf should not be detached from the tops of plants until they 
have made the best part of their growth in July ; when they have struck well, pot them into five-inch 
pots, plunge them in the most open situation where they have all the sun, and take off the tops down 
to about three pair of eyes; this will cause them to be neat and bushy, and the open situation will 
prevent them from running up high. They may be continued on this spot till the beginning of 
September, when they may be shifted into six-inch pots, using the rich soil before recommended. 
Still keep them plunged, but allow no frost to touch them. Eemove them to the house in October, 
and let them have air and moisture with plenty of light. 
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Dendrobium villosulum, Wdllieh. Roughish-sternmed Dendrobe. (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii., 82). — Nat. Ord., 
Orchidaceas § Malaxeaj-Dendrobidce. — A handsome stove epiphyte, with long slender erect stems, sparingly 
clothed with short black hairs, and having small linear acute leaves, and rich orange-coloured flowers in pairs 
from the end of the stems. The sepals and petals are linear obtuse and curved, the latter broader at the base than 
the former, and the lateral sepals forming a short obtuse chin ; the lip linear-lanceolate three-lobed, the lateral 
lobes very short, the centre one having three wavy elevated lines running through the middle. From the East 
Indies : Tillicherry. Introduced probably about 1848. Flowers in June. The Honourable East India Company. 
Allium caspium, Pieberstein. Caspian Onion. (Hot. Mag., t. 4598). — Nat Ord., Liliaeese § Scilleae. — Syn., 
Amaryllis caspia, Willdenow ; Crinum caspium, Pallas. — A coarse-growing bulbous plant, growing erect, from 
" two to ten" feet high, the leaves linear-lanceolate, glaucous, produced from the root and the lower part of the 
stem. The stem is terminated by a nearly globose lax umbel, a span wide, of numerous pedicels, which are four 
or five inches long. The flowers consist of half a dozen oblong slightly acute sepals, which are green and tinged 
with purplish-red ; the filaments are deep red, and much longer than the perianth. From the region of the Cas- 
pian, and Northern India. Introduced by Dr. Stocks, from Scinde, in 1850 ; though previously introduced twenty 
years since, but very rare. Flowers in May. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Leucothoe nerilfolia, De Canchlle. Oleander-leaved Leucothoe. {Pot. Mag., t. 4593). — Nat. Ord., 
Ericaceae § Erieece. — Syn., L. crassifolia, De Candolle; Andromeda neriifolia, SchlechUndahl ; A. crassifolia, Fold; 
Agarista neriifolia, Pan; A. Pohlii, Don. — A very handsome greenhouse evergreen shrub, of moderate-sized 
growth, furnished with remarkably coriaceous leaves, which are oblong cordate at the base, and somewhat 
acuminate at the point, glabrous on both sides, and minutely reticulated beneath. The flowers are in longish 
solitary nearly erect secund racemes from the axils of the upper leaves, and are very showy, the flowers being 
seated on pedicels of about their own length ; the whole inflorescence is of a bright scarlet. The corollas are 
between ovate and urceolate, very thick and fleshy, with a moderately large limb, of five acute spreading lobes. 
From tropical Brazil. Introduced before 1850.. Flowers in spring. Mr. Cunningham, of Comely Bank. 
Arbutus mollis, Humboldt, Ponpland and Kmith. Soft-leaved Arbutus. (Pot. Mag., t. 4595). — Nat. Ord., 
Ericaceae § Ericese. — A handsome warm greenhouse evergreen shrub, of large size. The leaves arc alternate 
coriaceous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, between acute and acuminate, the margin strongly serrated, nearly 
glabrous above, and clothed beneath with ashy or slightly ferruginous tomentum. The secund racemes are ter- 
minal, and form a lax panicle ; the rachis stout and downy, the pedicels downy and curved downwards. The corolla 
is large ampullaceous, or lageniform, the lower portion forming an inflated ring, the rest of the tube hemi- 
spherical, tapering into a short contracted mouth, and terminating in a limb of five short rounded lobes ; the 
corolla is glabrous or downy, white or greenish rose-colour. From Mexico. Introduced before 1850. Flowers 
in June. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
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