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Bignonia Rollisonii ( Rollison's Bignonia). — Flowers pro¬ 
duced in clusters, and of a golden yellow colour tipped with 
white. It is a store climber from Brazil, and is well adapted to 
cover a back wall or to be trained up a rafter. 
Cyanophyllum magnificum ( Magnificent Cyanophyllum ).-— 
A truly noble-foliaged plant, now well known. It is of the easiest 
culture, only requiring rich light soil and plenty of pot room. 
It has not flowered yet in this country. I have seen leaves two 
feet long and nine inches broad ; they are produced in pairs, and 
are of a deep velvety green on the upper surface, and a rich 
purplish-crimson beneath. Each leaf has three prominent whitish 
nerves running the entire length. A more splendid-foliagcd 
plant was never seen. 
Dipteracanthus affine (Related Dipteracanthus). —A plant 
with leaves like a Laurel, and of a leathery texture, glossy and 
acuminate, and strongly nerved. The flowers are large, cup- 
shaped, and of a brilliant scarlet colour. 
Fagr.la morindlefolia (Mo rind a-leaved Fagraa). —A fine | 
large-leaved shrub from Java, with long terminal spikes of 
trumpet-shaped flowers, having a soft rose-coloured tube and 
white limb. A truly noble addition to our stove shrubs. 
Fagraja peregrina (Spotfloicered Fa green). — Native of 
Bantam, in the western division of Java. Leaves large and 
lance-shaped ; flowers pure white, irregularly spotted. A hand¬ 
some species. 
Gardenia citriodoea (Citron-scented Gardenia). — A low- 
growing, exceedingly free-flowering species. The flowers are 
produced from the axils of the leaves; they are of a pure white, 
and as sweet as G. radicans. It is so compact in habit, and 
flowers when the plant is so young, that every stove in the king¬ 
dom ought to have one or more plants of it. 
GardeniaPlantii (Plant's Gardenia ).—Another fine species, 
sent home by Mr. Plant from the Zulu country, South Africa. 
It is a fine bush, bearing large, bell-shaped white flowers, which 
are very fragrant and very freely produced. 
Gloxinia Kerch (Kercy's Gloxinia). — The varieties of 
Gloxinia are so numerous that their name is legion. This species, 
however, is quite distinct from any other. It is of the drooping 
kind, and the flower is very large. The lower surface of the tube 
is of a creamy yellow, and marked with two prominent grooves, 
having a central ridge between them, thus giving it a boat-shaped 
appearance. These parts are marked across with a violet band, 
or belt, giving the flower a strikingly distinct appearance. This 
is a decidedly worthy plant. 
Goniophlebium undulatum (Waved-leaved Goniophlebium). 
—A lovely Fern from Java, with long, pendent fronds. The 
rachis is well clothed with bright green pinnules. It is peculiarly 
adapted for basket culture, the fronds hang down in a most grace¬ 
ful manner. 
Hoya grandiflora (Large-flowered Hoy a). —Found by Mr. 
John Hensliall, Messrs. Rollison’s collector, near the shore of the 
Island Noesa Kambangan to the south of Java. The flowers are 
as large as those of H. imperialis, and are of a pure white; the 
foliage is elliptic and slightly woolly. 
Ixoba acuminata (Pointed-leaved Ixora). — Flowers of a 
pure white and fragrant; leaves and habit excellent; flowers 
abundantly, even when young. It is a native of the East Indies. 
Ixora affine ( Related Ixora). —A beautiful species, with 
large trusses of pink flowers produced abundantly. A native of 
Java. 
Ixora Ameoinensis (Amboyna Ixora). — A very superior 
species, with trusses of flowers of an immense size, and of an 
orange colour shaded with scarlet. It forms a compact bush, 
and flowers most abundantly. 
Lygodittm polystachyon (Hang-rowedLygodium) .—Fronds 
branched in regular rows, upper surface of the pinnae very downy. 
This beautiful Fern was found by Mr. Thomas Lobb in Central 
India. Every Fern-grower ought to procure this fine new species. 
Plocostemma lasiantottm (Woollyflowered Plocostemma). 
—A new genus allied to Hoya. This species has its flowers in 
clusters of an orange colour, Tho inner part of the petals are 
covered with a snow-white down. The petals reflex till they 
touch the flowerstalks, and are fragrant. The leaves are large and 
handsome, and the whole plant when in bloom is very beautiful. 
Pothos ARGYRiEA (Silvery Pothos). —This is a decided ac¬ 
quisition to the lovers of variegated plants. The leaves are 
obliquely ovate, of a rich deep green ground colour, distinctly 
blotched with silvery white, and the samo colour is spread 
irregularly in a band-like form on each side of the midrib. It is 
suitable either to be grown in a pot or in a basket suspended. 
The habit is neat and compact. It is a gem in its way worthy of 
general culture. 
Pteeis aegyeaja (Silvery Pteris). —This is, indeed, a novelty. 
It is a variegated Fern, of noble aspect and of easy culture. The 
broad-formed pin me have each a wide stripe in the centre of 
silver-shining white, which, contrasted with flic lively sea-green, 
gives the plant a charming appearance. 
Riiyncosia volebilis (Twining Rhyncosia). —A stove climber, 
native of Sierra Leone. The flowers are produced on fine pen¬ 
dent recemes, which are densely covered with Pea-shaped blooms 
of a purple and lilac colour. 
Selaginilla atro-viridis (Darlc-green Selaginilla). —A low- 
growing, beautiful species, sent from Borneo by Mr. T. Lobb to 
the Chelsea Nursery. Fronds repeatedly branched, broad, and 
well defined; foliage dark-green. 
Selaginilla Lobbii (lobb's Selaginilla). —This species is 
also from Borneo, from the same collector who sent the pre¬ 
ceding species. Its fronds are much like a Fern, and have tho 
same purplish metallic lustre as tho well-known S. cassia. 
Selaginilla bubricaulis (Red-stemmed Selaginilla). —In¬ 
troduced by Mr. Sims, of Foot’s-Cray. As the specific name 
imparts, the stems are red—quite a novel feature in these pretty 
plants.—T. Appleby. 
(To be continued.) 
HOUSE AND TOWN SEAY AGE. 
(Continued from page 129.) 
Cheapness. —The sewage of a house costs nothing ; and if 
used on the ground around it, even if pumped from a tank, the 
cost of the pump would soon be saved by the entire avoidance 
of the annual expenses attendant upon the filthy processes of 
emptying dead-wells and cesspools. 
Then, in support of that startling result of our own experience 
that- THE SEWAGE OF EVERY HOUSEHOLD IS MANURE SUFFI¬ 
CIENT FOR TnE PRODUCTION OF ALL ITS VEGETABLE FOOD—a 
fact that cannot be too generally and continually urged—we have 
this testimony of Dr. Lyon Playfair:—“ Human excrements 
contain (with the exception of one ingredient—silicate of potash) 
all the ingredients essential to fertility. Estimating the amount 
of the effete matter of one man at an amount so low as 547 lbs. 
yearly (1* lbs. urine, 1) lbs. faeces daily), so rich is tills manure in 
phosphates, that the collected excrements of tivo men would 
suffice to manure an acre of Wheat or of Peas ; or that of one 
man a whole acre of Turnips, supposing the green herbage were 
returned to the soil. In fact, when we recollect that a pound of 
urine contains all the ingredients necessary for the production of 
a pound of Wheat, it is incredible folly to allow all the valuable 
refuse of our large towns to run to waste, when at the same time 
we are sending fleets to Icliaboe and Peru for what we are 
wasting at home.” 
Dr. Playfair might have added with equal truth, that the ex- 
crementitious matters we are thus fetching from other regions of 
the world are far more expensive, yet not more powerful, as 
manure, than the excrementitious matters of our own sewers. 
On this point we will only quote the statement of one of our 
best practical farmers, the late Mr. Smith, of Deanston, who 
thus details liis experiments made pui-posely on a meadow in 
Lancashire, by applying to separate acres at the rate of fifteen 
tons of farmyard manure per acre, three cwt. of guano, and 
eight tons of sewer water. 
6 £ s. d. 
Cost of manuring one acre with sewer water . 0 12 9 
Ditto with guano (2^ cwt.) at 8s . 1 0 0 
Ditto with farmyard manure, 15 tons, at 4s. . 3 0 0 
Ditto with sewer water . 0 16 6 
Ditto with guano (5 cwt.) at 8s. 2 0 0 
Ditto with farmyard manure (30 tons), at 4s. 6 0 0 
The guano and farmyard manure “ in their effects tvere found 
to be inferior to the sewage water." 
As we have already stated, the sewage of a town taken col¬ 
lectively can never be available unless arrangements are made to 
keep them from excessive dilution by the rain and other surface 
water usually mingled with it in the sewers. It becomes so weak 
and so bulky, that its cost of carriage to a distance is too ex¬ 
cessive. That some arrangement could and ought to be made to 
avoid this dilution we have no doubt; and to prove the vast im¬ 
portance of making such au arrangement no other facts are needed 
beyond the few following :— 
