THE LADY’S MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
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a Swan River plant, with curious fringed purple flowers, at Mr, 
Lowe’s nursery, Clapton; Sinningia Youngeana , (April,) a hybrid 
between S. velutina and Gloxinia speciosa , at Messrs. Loddiges’; 
Cattleya lahiata var. atropurpurea , and Cor rasa Harrisii , (May,) both 
at Mr. Lowe’s, Clapton, the Corrsea with bright pink flowers; 
Hibiscus multifidus , (June,) a Swan River perennial, with deeply- 
cut leaves and pale blue flowers, at Messrs. Henderson’s, Pine 
Apple Place, Edgware Road; Dendrobium Devonianum , (September,) 
an East Indian epiphyte, with pink and yellow flowers; and Loelia 
cinnabarina , with scarlet flowers, at Loddiges’; Corraa longiflora , with 
pink flowers, at Lucombe and Pince’s, Exeter; Phlox Coldryana , a 
perennial, with very dark crimson flowers, from the British Nursery ; 
Cyclogyne canescens , a leguminous plant, from the Swan River; all four in 
the October Number. Two fine plates of beautiful old plants may also 
be mentioned; viz. Blandfordia grandijlora , in the November No.; and 
Erica Banksiana , in the No. for December. Both these are most beau¬ 
tifully executed; as indeed are nearly all the plates in the current 
volume of Paxton’s Magazine. 
In The Botanist, the most beautiful and newest flowers are Hovea 
pungens, (No. 164, April,) a very beautiful shrub, with rich dark blue 
flowers, from King George’s Sound, at Messrs. Rollison’s ; Acacia denti- 
fera , (No. 179,) a Swan River shrub, with yellow ball-like, stalked 
flowers, at Messrs. Rollison’s; Aquilegia fragrans , (No. 181), an East 
Indian Columbine, nearly allied to A. glauca , (see p. 22,) but with still 
larger flowers ; and Solanum vestitum , a Mexican plant with white flowers. 
To these may be added Abutilon striatum , a beautiful Brazilian plant, 
which was first figured in The Botanist, though in 1839, and which is 
now becoming common in greenhouses. 
British Insects and their Transformations.—British Butterflies. Ar¬ 
ranged and illustrated in a series of Plates, by H. N. Humphreys, Esq., with 
Characters and Descriptions by J. O. Westwood, Esq., F.L.S., &c. &c. London, 
1840.—In Monthly Numbers, price 2s. 6 d. each. 
There is perhaps no study more interesting to the amateur florist 
(after that of botany) than that of entomology ; and yet it is very seldom 
studied. Nothing is more common than to hear complaints of the 
ravages of caterpillars in a flower-garden, and yet nothing is more rare 
than to meet with an amateur florist who knows anything about the 
habits of these insects, or the means of destroying them. One reason for 
this apparent anomaly is the great difficulty which exists in identifying 
the insects in their three several stages of caterpillars, chrysalis, and 
butterfly, or moth, for want of some popular work on the subject; 
