THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, January 17, i860. 
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Begonia Charles Wagner. —A dwarf, small-leaved kind. The 
leaves have a kind of star of silver in the centre, bordered with 
crimson, which, as the leaves are fully developed, changes to a 
rich olive green. The rest of the leaf is silvered over in a Van- 
dyked style. The border is also dotted with silver. Very distinct 
and beautiful. 
B. Geh. —The smallest of the tribe, the leaves being only 
three inches long, shortly ovate. They are of a pure silvery 
grey, with a margin of dark olive green, and the centre a well- 
defined green star. 
B. Leopoldii. —Leaves large, obliquely ovate, dark shaded 
green, with red margin and crimson centre. The whole covered 
with crimson hairs. The flowers are also handsome, being large 
and of a pretty pink colour. 
B. Maeshallii. —A large-growing, handsome kind I have 
seen plants of it eighteen inches high, and as much through. ! 
The band is broad, well defined, and pure silvered white, showing 
the dark veins distinctly ; margin dark green, blotched with silver. 
Very beautiful and distinct. 
B. Queen Victoria. —-Medium-sized. Leaves dark reddish- 
green along the sides of the nerves; the centres between are of I 
a greenish grey blotched with silver. A handsome variety, or j 
probably species, from Assam. 
B. xanthina lazuli. — This is a remarkable kind, with 
leaves like H, Hex, but having a purplish metallic hue. 
There are many other varieties named, but I think the above 
are the best, and certainly as many as any collection need have 
in addition to the older varieties. 
Caladium: abgyrites. — A truly beautiful plant, growing in 
moderate compass, the largest plant I have seen not exceeding 
nine inches high. Leaves arrow-shaped, four inches long and 
two inches broad, bright green thickly blotched with large and 
small spots of pure white. It should be in every collection, 
however small. 
C. Ciiantinii. —Leaves rather large, oval, arrow-shaped. The 
centre and the main veins bright red, the rest green thickly 
spotted with white. A fine variety. 
C. Veitchii. —The leaves of this remarkable plant have short 
pencilled stems. They are large, a foot long, arrow-head shaped, 
with two diverging lobes. The upper surface polished dark ; the 
lower dark lurid purple, from which a bronzy metallic tinge is 
seen through to the upper surface in a certain light. Central rib 
and main veins from it are ivory white. 
C. Verschaefeltii. — Leaves broadly arrow-shaped. Medium 
size, with a broad blotch of crimson in the centre, and a few 
angular red spots on the green border. A handsome variety. 
Gloxinia ccerulea vahiegata. —Ground colour light por¬ 
celain blue, distinctly striped with white, and mottled on the 
upper lobes ; the throat blotched with white flakes. Good size, 
form excellent. 
G. Madonna. — Form and substance good; pure white 
blooms minutely fringed on the margin, creamy yellow tube, 
violet crimson belt, and the front lip marked with an elegant 
band of rose. 
G. scholastica. —Large pink-coloured flowers, of good form, 
substance, and outline ; tube white. A distinct, good variety. 
G. Sebastiano. — A beautiful, deep salmon-coloured flower; 
white tube spotted with red. On the lower surface of the tube 
there are long side-belts of violet crimson. New in colour, and a 
large, handsome, well-formed variety. 
G. Spagnoletti. —A very large salmon rose-coloured flower, 
nearly three inches wide, with pure white throat; the marginal 
lobes semicircular. A truly noble variety. 
G. striata maculata.— Flowers above medium size, well 
formed, and drooping. Colour a rosy salmon, mottled with 
white on the upper lobes. There are also three white stripes 
radiating from the throat to the margin. A beautiful, very dis¬ 
tinct variety. 
Gonotanthus cupreus. — A stove perennial of compact 
habit. Leaves long, ovate, peltate—that is, the leafstalk is in the | 
centre of the leaf. Leaves purple on the under side, smooth and 
deep green on the upper side, having a reddish coppery shade. 
Very rich. A desirable beautiful-foliaged plant from Borneo. 
Macodes petala. —This is allied to the richly-foliaged genus 
Anrectocliilus, with oval leaves of a shaded green, richly veined 
and ribbed with glittering gold. A dwarf-growing gem. Native , 
of Java. 
Mauanta fasciata. —A dwarf, compact, stove perennial, with 
smooth, shining, roundish-oblong leaves, dark green obliquely i 
banded with white. 
Maranta Porteana. — Leaves smooth, shining, oblong, and 
painted green, with white bands above and purple beneath. A 
handsome addition. 
M. pulchella. —Leaves medium size, delicate green, rayed on 
each side with dark velvety green. This is a pretty, graceful 
plant, not unlike a miniature M. zebrina. 
Pogonia discolor.—A beautiful dwarf stove plant, with a 
single ovate leaf somewhat hollowed at the base, the end turned 
back, and the whole leaf ribbed like a fan. It is of a bronzed 
green colour, covered with orange-red hair. A native of Java, 
and a fit companion for Macodes petala, and sucli-like flue- 
leaved plants. 
Stephanopuysum Baikiei. —A soft-wooded stove plant, with 
four-angled stems and lance-sbaped oval leaves pointed. The 
flowers are produced in large terminal racemes, funnel-shaped at 
the top and tubular below, two inches long, and of a bright 
crimson colour. A fine showy plant from Africa. 
Tyd.ea elegantissima. — A dwarf kind. Very distinct 
flowers, with an orange scarlet tube expanding to a lobed salver- 
shaped limb of a blush salmon ground colour marked with rosy 
carmine spots and bands. 
T. ignescens. — Flowers funnel-shaped, and of a brilliant 
crimson colour, with orange-scarlet lobes spotted with carmine, 
relieved by a yellow throat striped with scarlet. 
T. Lady Digby. —This is of a neat, bushy habit, and an 
abundant bloomer. Flowers crimson, scarlet tubes, with a large 
rosy lake crimson lobe, fully two inches across. 
T. Lady Caroline Kerri son. — A tall bushy species with 
purplish-crimson stems, and leaves with conspicuous nerves 
on a dark bronze ground. Flowers with bright orange-scarlet 
tubes clothed with the same coloured hairs. The lobe is two 
inches wide, and of a light rose colour spotted with violet. An 
elegant plant.—T. Appleby. 
(To be continued.) 
BEDDING CALCEOLARIA CULTURE. 
I should feel much obliged if you would favour me with 
advice about my Calceolarias. I bad a bed of them last summer, 
and they did not flower as well as they were expected, and at last 
they became stagnated. I lifted them up with as much earth 
about then’ roots as I could ; put them into eight-inch pots; and 
have kept them in a cold frame ever since. What ought I to do 
with them now ? Keep them as they are till planting time 
comes and plant them as they ai’e, or turn them out of their 
pots, and trim their roots, and fresh pot them early in the spring, 
or strike fresh cuttings from them ? They look very healthy.— 
Moore. 
[One cause of the Calceolaria failures we hear of came within 
our own knowledge. They became pot-bound, or too much 
cramped at the roots, and the centre of the halls was allowed to 
get too dry. They were planted out into a cold frame in April, 
and in the open ground in May ; but although they made plenty 
of new roots in the frame, the cent re of the balls was never moist 
enough. The sap had to pass through the parched parts of the 
roots or balls so sluggishly, that the hot weather killed many of 
the plants—they really died by starvation in the midst of plenty. 
Very many plants perish yearly through the same cause. Keep 
your good-looking plants in the pots till the roots begin to be 
crowded outside the balls; then have them well watered, and 
next day turn them out of the pots in any light soil in the bottom 
of the frame, or in a sheltered cradle if it is late in the spring; 
and see that every ball is wet through when you plant them out 
in the beds. Meantime make a good stock of young plants from 
them without spoiling your old plants ; and when the young ones 
are well-rooted plant them, without pots, in a close frame, in 
rows six inches apart and four inches plant from plant; and we 
will guarantee that not one of the young ones thus treated will 
flinch next summer. All our own young stock of Calceolarias 
never get into pots till they are lifted out of the beds in October; 
and we lose no more than one or two out of' a thousand—some¬ 
times not one in a season.] 
Tree Labels. —As the season for transplanting trees in their 
greatest quantities is approaching, we will give to the readers of 
the Artisan a description of the most simple and yet the most 
durable label for their trees that we have ever seen presented. 
And as we have obtained our information from Mr. Peticolas, 
