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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
flowers, as they are called, for if they suffer the least neglect, they are done 
for; and there are a great many more bunglers in floriculture than it would 
be desirable to name. A few pence, however, well laid out on Daisy plants 
will do more for a permanent display of neat and very showy spring flowers 
than can be had from any other genus that I know of. Daisies neatly 
dotted round a curve at distances of about 6 feet, or in straight lines at the 
same distance apart, will give the early-spring border a charm quite peculiar, 
as the flowers are so well thrown up above the foliage, and there is such a 
dense mass of flower-lieads if the plants have been well fed. 
Salford. Alex. Forsyth. 
NEW GARDEN PLANTS. 
The most remarkable novelty among introduced plants which has lately 
been made known is, doubtless, the Dalechampia Roezliana rosea , which 
has recently been figured by Dr. Regel (Gartenflora, t. 532), and ex¬ 
hibited by Mr. Bull at South 
Kensington, and of which, 
through Mr. Bull's kindness, 
we are enabled to give the 
accompanying illustration. 
The plant is a native of Vera 
Cruz, in Mexico, where it 
was originally detected by 
Roezl. It blossoms very 
freely, small plants of a 
few inches in height pro¬ 
ducing from every leaf-axil 
its peculiar inflorescence, the 
beauty of which resides in 
the large rosy pink bracts, 
which somewhat remind one 
of those of Bougainvillaea. 
The species differs from most 
of its congeners in being of 
erect not of climbing habit, 
and in having undivided not 
palmate leaves. It forms 
an erect low-growing under- 
shrub, with ohovate spathu- 
late, subcordate leaves, 5 to 
9 inches long, and 1 to 
3 inches wide at the broadest 
part, smooth or nearly so on 
both surfaces, and furnished 
with ovate stipules. The pe¬ 
duncles are slender, axillary, 
angular, 2 to 3 inches long, 
supporting two large, broadly 
ovate-acuminate, denticulate, 
rosy pink floral leaves, within which are other smaller bracts placed around 
and among the male and female flowers, some of them thick and club-shaped, 
and bearing at the top a fringe of short, yellow, waxy-looking threads, 
which give a singular appearance to the blossoms. The plant, which 
