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ON BLIGHTS. 
2. Rondeletia speciosa. Handsome Rondeletia. A very ornamental 
shrub, native of the West Indies. The dowers grow in showy tufts on 
the points of the branches, and are high-coloured. 
3. Calliopsis bicolor atvosanguinea. Deep-coloured Calliopsis. 
This is a variety having larger dowers and deeper colour than its proto¬ 
type, and therefore is worthy the notice of the flower-gardener. 
These figures and descriptions are followed by a valuable paper on the 
construction and various modes of heating hot-houses. 
Smith’s Florists’ Magazine for December, 1835, contains— 
beautiful figures of the Verbena Lambertii and V. melindres on the 
same plate ; also Amaryllis Belladonna, var. pallida ; the Royal Ade¬ 
laide Dahlia ,* and the Early Blush and Tasselled yellow Chrysanthe¬ 
mums. They are all beautifully and faithfully drawn and coloured, 
and their history and practical directions for their culture given with 
each plate, very much enhances the value of the work. 
We see by the newspapers that a plant of the Lnculia gratissima is 
now in full dower in the conservatory of Messrs. Lueombe, Pince, and 
Co., at Exeter. This, a genus named and described by the late Mr. 
Sweet, is a native of Nepaul, and one of the most agreeably fragrant 
of plants. 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
On Blights.-—T here is nothing so destructive to a fruit garden as 
blights; nor is there anything in the business of gardening which 
requires more of our serious attention and endeavours to guard against. 
Blights are often caused by a continued dry easterly wind for 
several days together, without the intervention of showers, or any 
morning dew, by which the perspiration in the tender blossoms is 
stopped, that in a short time their colour is changed, and they wither 
and decay; and if it happens, that there is a long continuance of the 
same weather, it equally affects the tender leaves, as from the same 
cause perspiring matter is thickened and rendered glutinous, which 
closely adhering to the surface of the leaves, becomes a proper nutri¬ 
ment to small insects, which are always found preying upon the tender 
branches of fruit and other trees, whenever this blight happens. But 
insects are not the first cause of blights, as has been imagined by some 
naturalists, though it must be allowed that whenever the insects meet 
