THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
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In the Botanist are— 
Stylidium Drummondii. No. 213. A very handsome species, with 
large pinkish flowers, from the Swan River. 
Bafnia trijlora. No. 214. A leguminous plant, with yellow flowers. 
Senecio populifolius. No. 215. This is apparently a variety of the plant 
formerly well known by the name of Cineraria populifolia. 
Epidendrum umbellatum. No. 216. An orchideous plant, fre¬ 
quently figured before. 
Of these the Stylidium is new, and perhaps the Cineraria, if it be a 
variety or hybrid. 
In the Botanic Garden are—■ 
Neottia cernua. No. 782. A terrestrial orchideous plant, intro¬ 
duced in 1796, figured before in Bot. Mag. t. 1568. 
Aconitum japonicum. No. 783. The Japan WolfVbane. A very 
showy species, introduced in 1790. 
Primula longijlora. No. 784. A very pretty species of primrose, 
introduced in 1825. 
Hedysarum sibiricum. No. 781. A handsome species of Hedysarum, 
introduced in 1700 . 
EXTRACTS FROM BOOKS. 
MR. WARD’S PLAN FOR GROWING PLANTS IN CLOSED BOXES 
Depends primarily and fundamentally on protecting the plants from too 
free communication with the outer air. This end is obtained by the use of 
glass, the light so essential to vegetation being thus freely admitted. The 
most ready way to try the experiment is, to procure a glass vessel,—for 
instance, one of those jars used by druggists and confectioners; introduce 
some soft sandstone, or some light soil, filling one-sixth of the jar with it, 
and taking care that the earth is very moist, yet allowing no water to settle 
at the bottom of the jar; plant a fern in the earth, and then cover the 
jar with its glass lid, first supplying a slip of wash-leather round the rim 
of the jar, which will pretty nearly cut off the communication between 
the internal and external air: no farther attention will be required. 
The fern will live, thrive, and probably seed, the seed also vegetating, 
and at last the jar will become too small for its contents : no watering is 
needed; the moisture in the earth will exhale, condense on the glass, 
trickle down its sides, and return to the earth whence it arose. 
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