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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
Camel lia plan ip e ta la , Tea Rose Marechal Niel , and Phalanopsis Luddeman- 
niana form the subjects of three more illustrations. Of Messrs. Low’s beautiful 
new Phalmnopsis a full description, accompanied with an excellent coloured 
plate, appeared in our December Number. 
Schizostylis coccinea. —A half-hardy member of the Iris family from Caf- 
fraria, and producing in the end of summer and in autumn long spikes of crim¬ 
son flowers, which are uninjured by 3 P or 4° of frost. 
Gesnera (Na3gelia) Sceptre Cerise. — Branching racemes of vermilion- 
coloured flowers, variously marked with yellow, and bronzy chestnut-coloured 
leaves, shaded with crimson. A group of beautiful Peruvian Alstrbmerias , 
imported, and probably also crossed, by M. Annee, completes the list of illus¬ 
trations in these parts. 
The Floral Magazine for January has for its first plate Swainsonia 
magnfca, a New Holland plant, with racemes of pretty bright pink, pea-like 
flowers. It is in the hands of Mr. Williams, of Holloway, who recommends 
it for planting against the pillars or trellis of a cool greenhouse, or for cultivation 
as a specimen plant. When the seeds are sown after having been kept any 
considerable time, they should previously be soaked slightly in warm water. 
For raising the seedlings, the heat of a stove or slight hotbed is requisite ; and 
in potting off, the most suitable soil to use is equal parts of loam and fibrous 
peat, with a good proportion of silver sand. 
The second plate has for its subject Messrs. E. G. Henderson’s new variety 
of Clianthus Dampieri ; and the third is a representation of three of Mr. Bull’s 
Italian Striped Verbenas , of which the editor justly remarks, “that it is not 
likely that such flowers will be serviceable as bedding plants; for, as a rule, 
two-coloured flowers, even those where only the eye is of a different colour, do 
not succeed so well as those which are self-coloured, or nearly so ; ” but for 
exhibition, and in contrast with the self-coloured varieties, they will be found, 
he imagines, very useful. The varieties figured are Beautiful , white, blotched, 
flaked, and striped with purple ; Carnation , white, flaked with deep crimson, 
and striped with rose ; and Fascination, white, striped and blotched with dark 
crimson, and striped with violet-rose and carmine. 
The fourth plate is a representation of Primula cortusoides amcena alba , one 
of the pretty varieties sent home from Japan by Mr. J. G. Yeitch. The flowers 
are white, but, being somewhat pendulous, also display the magenta-coloured 
back of the petals. 
In the February Number the first plate is a representation of the common 
Aucuba in fruit; the second, Verbena Really Blue, which it is believed will 
supply the long-felt want of a truly blue Verbena for bedding-purposes. 
Chrysanthemums Iona and John Salter are the subjects of the third plate. 
The former is a beautiful golden-coloured flower ; the latter a large finely- 
incurved orange flower, the “ petals ” backed with Indian red. Calanthe 
Veitchii , obtained by Mr. Dominy, from Limatodes rosea fertilised with 
Calanthe vestita, and now tolerably well known, is the subject of the fourth 
plate. 
OUR MONTHLY CHRONICLE. 
Royal Hobticultukal Society. — The 
annual general meeting was held on the 13th 
of February, when his Grace the Duke of 
Buccleuch, the President, took the chair at 
3 p.m. The usual formalities having been 
gone through, Mr. Robert Fortune and Mr. 
W. E. Booth were appointed scrutineers of 
the ballot for the election of new members of 
Council and officers for the ensuing year. 
Whilst the ballot was being proceeded with, 
W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., the Secretary, 
read the report of the Council for the year 
1865. 
The following were the principal points 
