86 THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
man tree-primrose, raised from Indian seeds. The leaves are less shining, 
and the stem shorter ; the whole plant forming “ a compact little bush, 
about a foot and a half high.” It is quite hardy in the open border. 
Ismene mrescens , (t. 12). A new bulbous plant from Cusco, with 
greenish white flowers. 
Four of the plants figured in the Bot. Beg. for February are new ; and 
two of them, the Mexican Bitter-sweet, and the large Swan Daisy, are 
very handsome. Both these plants are sufficiently hardy to be planted 
out in summer, and are consequently valuable acquisitions to our gardens. 
In Paxton’s Magazine of Botany the plants figured are— 
Huntleya molacea. A very handsome orchideous plant now figured 
for the first time, though it was introduced two or three years ago. 
Hibiscus Cameroni. A very handsome stove Hibiscus, figured in the 
Floral Cabinet, in 1837* 
Solanum jasminoides. A pretty climbing, evergreen Solanum, with 
small purplish flowers. It is a greenhouse plant, and is said to be a 
native of South America. It has not been figured before. 
Fuchsia corymbiflora. Already figured in the Bot. Beg. 
Two of these plants have not been figured before. 
Maund’s Botanic Garden. The plants figured are Geum montanum , 
Ledum azureum , Astragalus virgatus , and Papaver commutatum , the 
last of which is new. 
The Botanist contains— 
Podalyria buxifolia , (t. 204). A pea-flowered greenhouse plant, already 
figured in the Bot. Beg. 
Lathyrus tomentosus. No. 206. A new kind of ornamental pea, from 
Buenos Ayres. 
Clintonia pulchella. No. 207* The well-known and beautiful annual. 
Strobilanthes Sabiniana. No. 208. A handsome stove plant belonging 
to Acanthacese, before figured in the Bot. Mag. and Bot. Beg. 
One of these plants is new. 
A Treatise on an Improved Mode of Cultivating the Cucumber and Melon. 
By George Mills, Gardener to the Baroness de Rothschild, at Gunnersbury 
Park, Middlesex. 
Though this work goes rather too deeply into the arcana of the art of 
gardening for most lady amateurs, there are some who may like to see 
how the seeming wonders of producing finely grown and finely tasted 
