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of colours, and are not expensive : — Boul'e de Feu, bright scarlet; Chandlerii, 
deep crimson ; Walton’s Emma, deep lilac; .Taglioni, pink and white ; 
Queen, pure white ; Zeuxes, scarlet and white ; Blue Queen, bluish lilac; 
Burleyana, rose ; Triumphans, deep red ; and Rosea alba. 
If Flora Londinensis will send directions to our office, we can supply 
the address of a person who manufactures Wardian cases at a more reasonable 
rate than those mentioned by our correspondent last week. 
Erratum. — A typographical error occurred in our last— the paper on 
Orchards was written by Mr. E. Bray , not Brag. 
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The British flora affords but few flowering plants so early as 
this month, but on warm banks, and in other favoured spots, 
several of the more common weeds may be found expanding 
their blossoms in mild weather. As a means of obtaining an 
extended knowledge of the very varied forms under which 
vegetable vitality is developed, the botanical amateur should 
not fail to examine the cryptogamic plants, which are so easily 
met with during all periods of the year, but more particularly 
now, ere the sun has acquired sufficient power to dissipate the 
moist condition of the earth and atmosphere in which they 
particularly luxuriate. The various arrangement of parts in the 
different tribes, from the simple forms assumed by the lower 
genera of Algce and Fungi to the beautiful organization of 
various Jungermanice , and onward still to the complex structure 
of the mosses, cannot fail to excite admiration, when we con¬ 
sider that the numberless plants in these orders are formed of 
cellular tissue alone. 
If the weather be open the operations in the flower-garden 
will become numerous : thus dressing lawns, edgings, walks, 
&c., and the planting of hardy shrubs and herbaceous plants, 
preparation of borders, and other routine work, should be per¬ 
severed in as far as weather will permit. A point of some 
importance, in consequence of the mild weather in January, will 
be the protection of tender roses, and various other plants, in 
case of a return of cold weather, or of very cutting winds. 
Many plants, especially many of the new species of Pinus , and 
allied genera, particularly require protection when making their 
first growth in spring; for although hardy enough to stand 
unprotected through the winter, they are very liable to sustain 
injury in consequence of the early period at which they com¬ 
mence their growth. 
The Conservatory should receive all the air consistent with 
