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is very good. If this cannot be got, use linseed cake, but very 
sparingly. Mix them well up together, but do not tread the 
soil down any more than cannot be avoided: allow for settling, 
and when the vines are planted, draw out the roots very 
carefully, and spread them in the ground near the top, as the 
roots like the air; give them a good watering when you plant 
them, and manure the border at top in winter, and fork it over 
in the spring. 
Dec. 11. 1844. 
LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Lobeliaceje. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Lobelia thapsoidea, syn. Rapuntium thapsoideum, Geniostoma brasiliense. 
Much as the genus Lobelia has been reduced in amount of species by the nume¬ 
rous genera that have been of late separated from it, especially Siphocampylos 
and Tupa, there are yet enumerated in De Candolle’s Prodromus 1 73 species, 
and many new ones exist in the Herbariums of Botanists. Among the 
most remarkable of the genus for stateliness and showiness are the L. ura- 
nacoma, L. exaltata, L. organensis, and the present subject, which so far excels 
the rest, as to have obtained from De Candolle the epithet of “ lobeliarum 
princeps .” Mr. Gardner, to whom our stoves owe the possession of this fine 
plant, gathered specimens measuring eight feet in height; the habit and 
foliage of the plant somewhat resemble those of our great Mullein Verbascum 
thapsus (whence the specific name). The rosy-purple flowers are produced 
on thickly covered, large, pyramidal racemes.— Rot. Mag. 4150. 
Gesneriaceje. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Gesneria Schiedeana. This is another lovely addition to the many beau¬ 
tiful Gesnerias now cultivated in our stoves; it is remarkable for its richly- 
coloured blossoms, clothed with long shaggy hairs; their colour is a bright- 
golden scarlet; the limb variegated with red and yellow; the red arranged 
in broken lines. It is a native of Mexico, whence it was sent to Woburn, 
where it flowered in November, 1844. — Bot. Mug. 4152. 
ScropHularine^e. — Diandria Monogynia. 
Calceolaria fioribunda. Our gardens abound in Calceolarice from Chili and 
extra-tropical South America; but very few are known aliye in this country 
from the tropical regions of the New World. The present handsome species 
is from the environs of Quito, where it was gathered by Mr. Lobb. It 
flowered in Mr. Veitch’s establishment at Exeter in 1843. Although from 
within the tropics, and almost under the line, yet, the city itself of Quito 
being at an elevation of 11,000 feet above the level of the sea, this will 
probably prove a suitable plant for the greenhouse, and perhaps may flourish 
in the open air in the summer months. The flowers are globular, of a 
medium size, and bright yellow, resembling those of the old C. mlegrifolia. 
— Bot. Mag. 4154. 
