Plate 136. 
NEW HYBRID ACHIMENES. 
We figured in our last volume a very fine new hybrid of the 
longiflora section of this very pretty and free-flowering class, 
called Mauve Queen , and w r e have now the pleasure of placing 
before our friends a sterling novelty of the scarlet-flowered 
section, of which Meteor and Dazzle form such excellent ex¬ 
amples ; it has been named carminata elegans , according to the 
fashion of giving Latin names to garden hybrids, a practice 
which we should be glad to see discontinued. 
As we have so recently alluded to the cultivation of this 
genus, there remains but little for us now to add on the subject. 
At the present time, the tubers are in a dormant state, and if 
properly treated, they have remained in the pots in which they 
were grown, placed on their side, in some dry shelf in the 
greenhouse. We have seen them taken out, dried, and hung 
in paper bags, hut this is quite a mistake; they will, it is true, 
start, but they take much longer to do so, and frequently they 
rot altogether, owing to the sudden change of situation. Those 
who are desirous of having an early bloom will set them to 
work soon; this is done by placing them in a gentle heat, and 
potting them in small pots, and amongst the little things neces¬ 
sary to he attended to in their successful cultivation, is that of 
seeing that the sides of the pots are clean, as if the soil adheres 
to them, it is liable to prevent the water from running away and 
so causing the tubers to rot; indeed, in all stages of their 
growth, it is well to recollect that they do not require a too 
frequent application of water, and therefore a situation in the 
house not too much exposed to the influence of the sun’s rays, 
is the most desirable place for them. We have known some 
growers to place several plants of the more free-flowering 
