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have a few extra flowers, if the strength of the plant will admit 
of their being retained, and when these are secured, all such as 
will not open while the truss is in its best state should be cut out. 
At the metropolitan shows, seven florets are required to constitute 
a truss, but the provincial growers only insist on five. 
In case of hot, dry weather, just at the time the blooms are open¬ 
ing, or with backward plants, I have found great benefit arise from 
the employment of a pan of warm water placed beneath the pots 
in the evening when the glasses are closed ; a soft, genial steam is 
thus created among them, which seems to assist the expansion of 
the petals very greatly. 
Florista. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Primulace^e. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Primula Stuartii (Wallich). This beautiful perennial, herba¬ 
ceous Primrose is a native of the mountainous parts of India, 
having been gathered at Gossain Thau, in Nepal, by Wallich, and 
on the Himalayah, at an elevation of 9000 feet, by Royle, who 
speaks of it as giving a rich yellow glow to those regions. It 
flowered in the garden of the Edinburgh Horticultural Society 
during the summer of 1847. It was received from India in 1845, 
by the late Sheriff Spiers, and was planted in a north, exposed 
border, in the summer of 1846, in a mixture of loam and peat. 
It stood the winter of 1846-7 unprotected, and without any arti¬ 
ficial covering. It grows about sixteen inches high, and has 
leaves ten or eleven inches long, smooth, broadly lanceolate, 
acute, shining above, covered below with a yellowish, mealy 
matter or farina; the margins of the leaves are slightly undu¬ 
lated, with close, sharp serratures, which occasionally point 
downwards, and are somewhat revolute at the point. 
The flowers are numerous, on a polyphyllous involucre; co¬ 
rolla yellow, salver-shaped, its tube twice as long as the calyx, 
narrow about the middle, and then expanding in a somewhat 
campanulate manner, near its union with the limb, where there 
is a marked contraction ; limb of an orange tint towards the 
centre of the flower.— Bot. Mag. 4356. 
