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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, February 9, 1858. 
spheric temperature around the plant; admitting air with j appearance of which the plant should be removed, and care- 
great care, and on no account whatever shading; syringing ' fully trained in the desired shape. Then the temperature of a 
the plant around the frame, inside, and over the slate, in the j warm stove will expand the flowers ; at which time the driest 
morning and afternoon; shutting up closely after; water- ; and coolest part of the house should be selected to prolong : 
mg the plant at the root, when necessary, with rich, clear its time of flowering, which, with care, will last for weeks, 
manure water, made from cow and sheep-dung. About [ Immediately after flowering, the plant will assume a sickly 1 
three months from the start of the growth the temperature : hue. Water, then, should be gradually withheld • and wholly 
should be steadily increased, and water given sparingly, when the shoots are sufficiently ripe to be cut away The pot 
allowing the plant to become dry, but not so as to dis- 1 should then be stored in a dry, warm place until the season j 
figure the foliage; and giving air on all opportunities more ! for repotting and resumption of growth — J R Tanton 
copiously. This will arrest the too-luxuriant growth, thereby Gardener to II 0. Nethercote , Esq., Moulton Granqe 
causing every shoot-pomt to set with blossom ; upon the first ' Northamptonshire. ’ 1 
ONCIDIUM PLANILABRE. 
Received from R. A. Grey, Esq., who 
obtained it from Brazil, and presented it to 
the Society through Thomas Edgar, Esq. 
This plant has the foliage of O.fiexuosum , 
and flowers much like those of O. Suttoni. 
The pseudo-bulbs are thin, sharp-edged, and 
ribbed at the side. The leaves are sword¬ 
shaped, lorate, recurved, and shorter than 
the raceme. The raceme is long and nar¬ 
row like that of the Sutton Oncid ( O. 
Suttoni ), and the flowers are as nearly as 
possible of the same colour ; that is to say, 
the sepals and petals are dull brown tipped 
with yellow, and the lip is clear yellow 
stained with cinnamon brown at the base. 
The sepals and petals are nearly of the 
same size and form, rhomboid-lanceolate, 
acuminate, wavy, very distinctly stalked. 
The lip is three-lobed, with the side lobes 
nearly as wide as that in the centre, which 
is slightly stalked, nearly hemispherical, 
emarginate, and perfectly flat. The crest 
consists of a broad lozenge-shaped rugged- 
edged cuspidate process, beneath which, 
near the point, on either side, are two, 
small, unequal tubercles ; in addition to 
which there is a stout, blunt tooth, which 
rises in front of the column, forming part 
of it. The wings of the column are roundish, 
dwarf, and incurved. 
There is no published Brazilian species 
with which this can be usefully compared. 
From the Sutton Oncid, and similar Mexican 
! forms, it differs in the form of the crest, 
and especially in the strong tooth already 
mentioned as standing in front of the 
I column. 
It is rather a pretty species, of the third 
class in point of personal appearance.— 
(Horticultural Society's Journal.) 
Oncidium planilabre. 
THE CULTIVATION AND VALUE OF 
EUGENIA (MYRTUS) UGNI. 
Amongst the many valuable introductions we have met 
with among new plants during the last few years, there is not 
one, perhaps, more deserving of general cultivation than the 
I one bearing the name of Eugenia TJgni , or Mgrtus Ugni; 
and, although it is a plant possessing such valuable qualities, 
yet it does not appear to be known or grown so much or so 
generally as it really deserves, or so much as it would be, were 
its beauty and qualities better known. The intention of the 
following notes is t» point out what it is, and its cultivation. 
The plant is an evergreen shrub, of a somewhat ornamental 
character; and hardy, it having withstood the frost with us 
i (near London), during the three last winters in an exposed 
[ situation, not showing any perceivable objections to the severity 
; of the weather. Although thus hardy, yet the situation I 
would recommend for its cultivation would be a cold house of 
any description, such as a winter garden conservatory, or cold 
pit, where it will be found to thrive admirably. Or, it may 
I be g^own and treated the same as the common Myrtle, re¬ 
specting protection, watering, &c.; and will form a capital 
companion of that or other plant where a window is the only 
accommodation the plant can have; and would, I believe, ! 
flower and bear fruit to the satisfaction of any who may feel j 
an inclination to have this comparatively new plant in their 
possession : and the price of the plant being so low, viz., from 
2s. 6d. to 3 s. for good fruiting plants, it will enable many to 
purchase now that could not when it was first introduced at 
105. 6d. for a small plant that would have to be grown two or 
three years before it flowered. 
The best way, therefore, for any one who has not obtained 
it, but is desirous of doing so, is to send to the nurseryman 
for a plant at such a price. When you receive it at this 
season it will have made, of course, its wood for blooming in ! 
the spring approaching, but would be in a pot only of sufficient 
size to support its flowers. You would, therefore, let it flower , 
and form the fruit, and then give it a shift into a pot a size 
larger, which will suffice for two seasons, this and next, without 
potting again; for it is a plant that (unless it is required to 
grow fast instead of fruiting), does not wish for an over¬ 
supply of pot-room; but, if size be the object, it may be j 
