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plants that need a little care in their cultivation, and which will 
reward the grower for any trouble he may expend upon them. 
If potted carelessly, placed in a situation where other plants too 
closely surround it, and not further regarded, it will grow up 
stragglingand unsightly, and apparently deserve only to be dis¬ 
carded : but when it is properly potted in a compost of light 
loam and heath mould, mixed with a small quantity of finely 
broken stones or bricks, and allowed plenty of light and air; 
stopping the shoots now and then to render them dwarf and 
bushy, it will take a totally different aspect, some care is ad¬ 
ditionally requisite in watering the plant, having rather small 
and scanty foliage, its roots are more exposed to the influence 
of the sun than those of many similar shrubs. It must therefore 
be watched lest the soil become hardened in the centre, fall 
away from the sides of the pot, and thus allow a passage of 
water round the edges, without even admitting it into the mass. 
Still the poverty of its leaves should not be made a pretext for 
saturating it with fluid, because this very fact renders evapora¬ 
tion less abundant. Cuttings root under a shaded bell-glass in 
sandy soil, with a trifling bottom heat.— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Didynamia Angiospermia—Gesneracese. 
Achimenes Longiflora. See our first article and illustration. 
Hexandria Monogynia—Amaryllideoe. 
Alstrcemeria Nemorosa. A native of the Organ Mountains, 
first flowered in the winter of 1841-2, in the greenhouse ot 
Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, nearly related to A. aurea, 
and requiring the same treatment.— Curtis's Bot. Mag. 
Pentandria Monogynia—Primulacese. 
Primula Denticulata. Another of the many interesting plants 
introduced by the Messrs. Veitch. The seeds were received 
from the North of India, it being a native of the mountains 
bordering on Silhet and of Nepal; the flowers are pale purple, 
and the tube and mouth yellow ; it has been hitherto flowered in 
the greenhouse, but will probably prove hardy.— Bot. Mag. 
