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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
piping-bed should be made about 2 feet from the ground, and the pipings 
should be covered by hand-glasses, and when rooted and capable of being re¬ 
moved, should be planted out into store-beds preparatory to being placed in 
their blooming quarters. 
Coming away from the society of these veterans and from the hearing of 
their pleasant recollections, back to the great metropolis, in the midst of which 
I write, I could not help thinking of the wonderful charm a simple flower had 
for these men, and how powerful an influence it exerted on them; and this was 
but a reflex of the larger charm and wider influence flowers have, ever had, 
and ever will have, for the great family of human beings. Ever present with 
us, in cold and in heat, they are ministrants of no common order ; and he who 
can so develope their beauties as to deepen the charm they possess, and to 
widen the influence they exert, if not a lover of his species, is at least con¬ 
sciously, or unconsciously, a benefactor to his race. 
Quo. 
OUR CONTEMPORARIES. 
The October Number of the Botanical Magazine has representations of 
the following plants :— 
Ccelogyne corrugata. —Found by Dr. Wight, near Cortullam, in the Neil- 
gherries, and believed not to have been introduced into this country before 
1863, although figured several years previously. It also grows wild in Khasya. 
The flowers are in racemes of from three to six, with pure white sepals and 
petals, and a three-lobed lip, which is yellow, streaked with orange. 
Cotyledon fasriculciris. —A South African succulent, which is doubtless 
identical with the plant described by Aiton under the same name. It forms a 
very pale green, erect shrub, from 1 to 2 feet high, with thick fleshy leaves, 
2 or 3 inches in length. The flowers are borne on stems from 10 to 20 inches 
m height, and are tubular, and about an inch long. Their tube is yellowish 
green and dull red, and the lobes of the corolla are of the same hue, margined 
with green. 
Glyptostrobus pendulus. —A plant cultivated at Kew side by side with Tax- 
odium distichum, was considered to be merely a variety of that species, to 
which it is strikingly similar ; but Professor Oliver having examined the 
flowers this year, observed some points of difference, by which he has suc¬ 
ceeded in referring it to the Chinese Glyptostrobus pendulus. It forms an 
elegant, straight-stemmed, slender tree 40 feet high, with horizontal or slightly- 
pendulous branches, which are deciduous in autumn. 
Helipterum Cotula. —A West Australian Everlasting, seeds of which were 
sent from. Swan River, by Mr. Drummond, to Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich. The 
plant grows from 6 inches to 2 feet high, and produces flower-heads half an 
inch to an inch across, in one variety golden yellow, and in another white, 
with a golden yellow eye. 
Bolbophyllum reticulation. —A beautiful-leaved Orchid, discovered by Mr. 
Thomas Lobb, Messrs. Yeitch’s collector, in Borneo. The leaves are from 
3 to 5 inches in length, ovate-cordate, pale green, much reticulated with longi¬ 
tudinal and transverse nerves of a deeper green. The flowers are 1^ inch in 
diameter, white, striped or spotted with reddish purple. 
Musschia Wollastoni. —A Campanulaceous plant, introduced to Kew ten or 
twelve years ago from Madeira. It forms a large-leaved undershrub, from 
2 to 6 feet high, with oblong lanceolate leaves from 1 to 2 feet in length, often 
purplish in colour, and has erect panicles, 2 feet in length, of large yellowish 
green flowers. It requires a cool greenhouse. 
