THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, January 12, 1858. 
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Ana'is, pink eye, very beautiful. 
Antagonist, free and constant. 
! Candidissima nova, pure, and well-formed. 
^Countess of Home, with a perfect crimson centre, 
and form faultless. A good bedder. 
^Countess of Morton, petals thick and fleshy ; form 
fine. 
^Madame Celeste, with cherry eye ; good form. 
Imbricata, pink eye. A good bedder. 
j Omniflora, a good dwarf well-known species, excel¬ 
lent for massing. 
*Omniflora perfecta compacta, a new and superior 
variety. 
Blush and Pink. 
Abdul Medschid IChan, very beautiful; rather tall. 
# Amatissima, excellent form ; medium height. 
# Annie Salter, large trusses. A fine variety. 
Eliza, compact, and dwarf. G-ood. 
Exquisite, with white eye ; beautiful. Medium size. 
Gracilis, fine form, with a crimson eye. 
# May Queen, shaded with rose. Very exquisite. 
Pallida perfecta, fine shape, and rather dwarf. 
Rcine des Phloxes, carmine eye. Very beautiful. 
Crimson, or approaching to it. 
Boileau, rich colour; fine form. 
Brilliant, light crimson, but very bright. 
L’Ami Gouty, reddish carmine, purple eye ; fine form. 
Lilac, or Rosy Lilac. 
Agathocles ^ 
Astrea, shaded with rose > Fine forms. 
Lechmannii, shaded white centre ) 
Lilacina grandiflora, very fine. 
Spencerii, very dark lilac ; splendid dwarf habit. 
Yenusta, rose eye. Yery fine. 
Purple. 
Purpurea perfecta ^ 
KuSLupX rba ^ f o™- ^ 
Undulata elegans ) 
Rose, or Deep Pink, form and habits good. 
Compacta Goethe Pastor Clements 
Egzelia Madame Courcells Patula 
Rose Brilliant. 
Pale Yellow, or Stone-coloured. 
A class that needs improvement in colour. 
Keteleerii Madame Lefevre Pumila nova 
Madame Joly Madame Yiard 
Striped, Variegated, and Spotted. 
Alba purpurea variegata. 
Comte de Flandre, white, striped with rose. 
Imperialis, white, spotted with rose. 
# Macbeth, white, striped with carmine. 
^Napoleon, pale licac, edged with white. 
# Nimrod, white, striped with rosy red. 
Roi Leopold, peach, striped with red. 
All medium heights, and good shapes. 
Lilac, approaching to Blue. 
General Lamoriciere. Talma, purplish blue. 
This class is capable of great improvement. A 
decided blue Phlox is very desirable. 
I have endeavoured to arrange the Phloxes into 
roups : but we are not yet in possession of sufficient 
ata to fully establish more than the above number of 
divisions. It is, I think, a step in the right direction ; 
and I shall not lose sight of the idea next summer. 
Properties of a Good Phlox.— It only remains 
to give the properties thought to be necessary, in 
order to form a good Phlox in a florist’s eye :— 
1. Every bloom must be large, round, flat, without J 
notch at the end of the petal, and sufficiently nume¬ 
rous to form a good truss. 
2. The truss should be large, widest at the base, 
and rising in the centre. 
3. Petals should be of sufficient thickness to keep 
their form to the last, neither turning upwards nor 
downwards at the edges. 
4. Habit. The plant should be dwarf and branch¬ 
ing, producing not less than three good trusses for j 
exhibition. T. Appleby. 
NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
Clerodendrum squamatum. Vahl. JNat. ord., 
Verbenacece .—Native of China and Japan. Shrubby, ! 
with smooth, four-angled, slightly-furrowed branches. 
Leaves on petioles two or three inches in length; 
cordate ; margins obscurely toothed ; nerves three, or 
five, prominently developed, upper side dark green, 
and almost smooth, under side lighter green, and 
covered with minute circular scales. Inflorescence a 
terminal panicle, with smooth peduncles, thrice divided 
in a forked manner ; each pedicel bearing a single j 
flower. Segments of the the calyx acutely ovate; 
smooth, green. Tube of the corolla long, slender, 
divided into four unequal segments at the limb. 
Stamens four, on long, slender filaments. > 
This beautiful species of Clerodendrum, has long | 
inhabited our stoves, with pleasure to the possessor. 
But, although claiming extensive cultivation, it is not ' 
so frequently met with, as one would expect. It re¬ 
quires a good, rich loam, with about a third part of 
peat, and well-decomposed cowdung, and a little sand, i 
The drainage must be perfect and plentiful, for it will j 
not live long with stagnant moisture at the roots. 
Bottom heat, and plenty of atmospheric moisture are j 
essential to the plant when growing. Easily pro¬ 
pagated by cuttings. 
Anthocercis viscosa. JR. JBr. Nat. ord., Sola- 
nacece .—A native of New Holland. Stem and branches 
shrubby. Leaves sessile, alternate, obovate, very 
much attenuated at the base ; margin very obscurely 
serrated; surface overspread with glandular dots, 
which give a clammy sensation to the touch; dark i 
green above, lighter below. Inflorescence solitary, and i 
axillary, with two or three linear lanceolate bracts 
situated on the peduncles. Calyx cleft into five linear, ! 
lanceolate segments, persistent. Corolla tubular, with ) 
a slightly campanulate limb, divided into five ob¬ 
tusely oblong, spreading segments, of a dull white j 
colour. Tube marked internally and externally with 
greenish, radiating lines. Stamens four, with short : 
filaments attached to the base of the tube of the 
corolla. 
This interesting greenhouse shrub blooms in May 
and June; but it cannot be recommended as a very 
free-flowering plant. Cultivation, however, might in- j 
fluence this; and I have only seen it have one kind of 
treatment. It is very impatient of stagnant moisture ; 
but, with a free, open drainage, it will thrive best in a J 
compost of rather heavy texture, say about two parts , 
good strong loam, and one part peat, with a little sand. 
Euphorbia punicea. Swartz. Nat. ord., JEuphor- 
biacece .—Native of Jamaica. Stem woody, smooth ; . 
producing branches with difficulty. Leaves thickly 
crowded on the younger parts, lanceolate, nearly 
sessile, smooth; deep green above, and glaucous 
beneath. Inflorescence an umbel, with about five ' 
heads of unisexual sessile flowers. Pedicels slightly 
pubescent, bearing two large bracts below each head 
of flowers. Bracts sessile, oblong, with a slight acu- 
mination, and of a rich crimson colour. Involucres 
