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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
a cool greenhouse or vinery, not subjected to draughts, where they are to 
become well inured to a plentiful supply of air, which, however, they must 
not feel directly. Here they are to remain for some months. The only 
other essential requisite is that no actual moisture he allowed to rest upon 
their whole surface. In due season flower-buds will protrude if a grow T tli 
capable of their production has been formed. "When this is observed they 
must be reintroduced into a warmer house, and treated for the due display 
of their blossoms. It will soon be seen what an incentive of future [growth 
the past complete rest will have been. The hardening process, in like 
manner, will cause them to flower most abundantly. 
Digswell. William Earley. 
NEW GARDEN PLANTS. 
Amongst recent novelties in the Orchid family may be mentioned Den- 
drobium Bullerianmn (Bot. Mag., t. 5652), a pretty delicate-flowered species, 
first bloomed by Mr. Wentworth Buller, after whom it has been named. 
It is a Moulmein plant, introduced by Messrs. Low & Co., and is said to be 
of very easy culture, flowering in the spring. The stems are erectish and 
striated, the leaves ovate-lanceolate acute, and the flowers which follow the 
leaves, in clusters of two or three, white, faintly tipped with purple, and 
with a large yellow blotch in the centre of the lip. “ In structure it is, 
perhaps, most nearly allied to D. crepidatum, from which the form of the 
lip abundantly distinguishes it; while in the size, colouring, and general 
effect of its flowers, it somewhat resembles the otherwise very different 
D. Devonianum,” but is infinitely less beautiful. It has been called I). gra- 
tiosissimum in gardens. The very remarkable Epidendrum cnemidophorum , 
(Bot. Mag., t. 5656), has been bloomed during the past summer at Oulton 
Park, and proves to be a fine showy species. Its stately stems grow from 
4 to 6 feet high, and are pendent at top from the weight of the large 
nodding raceme of flowers. The latter are long-stalked, pale on the outside, 
and on the inside yellowish mottled with rich brown, the lip and column 
being of a creamy white tinted with rose. The large size of the individual 
flowers, and the bulk of the entire racemes, together with the stately habit 
of the plant, render it one of the most desirable of its family—one, more¬ 
over, which, coming from an elevation of 7000 feet in Guatemala, is found 
to thrive best in gardens under cool treatment. Another new species of the 
same genus, having an ornamental character, is Epidendrum Brasavolce (Bot. 
Mag., t. 5664), another Guatemalan species, flowered by Mr. Bateman, a 
plant allied in habit to E. prismatocarpum, but remarkably distinct in 
colour, the sepals being of a rich buff or yellowish brown, the lip straw- 
coloured at the base, and mauve-coloured at the tip. Its singular colour 
renders it attractive. 
Among stove shrubs a very interesting addition to our ornamental¬ 
leaved plants was made by the introduction of Acalypha tricolor, from New 
Caledonia. It is a remarkably distinct plant, of shrubby habit, producing 
large ovate acuminate leaves, which are irregularly mottled and blotched 
with coppery red and crimson, or sometimes a good deal suffused with 
coppery red, a colour quite distinct from that of any other plant in culti¬ 
vation, and which contrasts finely with other ornaments of the hothouse. 
The plant belongs to the Urticaceous order, and is the Caturus hispidus of 
some botanists. It was obtained by Mr. J. G. Veitch during his visit to 
