dark-coloured dots. The limb consists of five smooth, rounded, 
spreading segments, and is of a very rich deep rosy-tinted purple. 
This variety was raised by Messrs. Veitch and Son, of the Eoyal 
Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, and we are indebted to Mr. Veitch for 
the examples from which our figure is prepared. The plant 
was exhibited during the past summer at one of the exhibitions 
of the Eoyal Botanic Society, and was rewarded by a medal. 
The remaining kind, Cygna , is the best pure white variety 
we have yet seen. The flowers, which are of the drooping class, 
are of fair average size, with the usual ventricose tube and five- 
lobed limb, the segments of the latter being broad, rounded, 
and even. The colour is a pure white, quite without markings. 
This variety was exhibited by Messrs. J. and C. Lee, of the 
Hammersmith Nursery, at a meeting of the Floral Committee 
of the Horticultural Society, at which it was commended. We 
are indebted to these gentlemen for the opportunity of figuring 
it. It will be an effective form for grouping with other more 
showy-coloured kinds. 
Gloxinias are very easily managed in the hothouse, or with 
the aid of a warm frame to start them fairly into growth, and 
of a greenhouse in which to flower them. They form large 
fleshy tubers, which are to be preserved during winter in a dor¬ 
mant state. In spring, as early as convenient, in March or April, 
these should be removed from the old soil and repotted in 
small pots in a light mixture of leaf-mould, loam, and sand, and 
placed in a warm frame, in which, with moderate waterings, 
they may be grown on till the warm summer weather sets in, when 
they may be removed to occupy the places made vacant in the 
greenhouse by the removal of hardier subjects to the open air. 
They may be shifted into larger pots once or twice while grow¬ 
ing, as required, and should be kept tolerably close when in the 
greenhouse, especially at first, on removal from the warm frame. 
After flowering, they may be allowed to mature their leaves in 
a warm dryish place, and may then be stored away again till 
the following spring. 
