tection, they vigour, by repotting, watering with liquid manure, &c., occasionally. CHINESE PRIMROSES should be similarly encouraged for winter blooming. If mildew appears on any plants, dust them with sulphur immediately. Camellias may be grafted; the operation may be performed with the greatest success by pursuing the method the French call "graffe en placage," which is merely inserting that portion of wood that includes a bud and leaf cut longitudinally, into a corresponding cleft in the stock. The grafted subjects should be plunged in bottom heat, and kept covered for at least a month. SHRUBBERY, &c. When it is intended to remove large evergreen shrubs, &c., the coming season, it very materially contributes to success now to have a deep trench cut round the plant at the size the ball is intended, and thus cut in the roots, which induces them to push lateral ones, and such readily strike afresh when removed. October and early in November is the best season for planting evergreens; the ground possesses some heat then, and promotes their more immediate establishment, and the air is cool and damp in a proportionate degree. THE CULTIVATION OF ROSES. PEAT soils, although not of the best kind for Roses, are found to grow them tolerably well. For the improvement of such if wet, the first effort should be to drain them. After this, stiff loam or pulverised clay, and burnt earth, may be brought upon the surface, digging two spit deep, and well mixing the foreign substances with the natural soil, as advised in the improvement of clay-soils. The worst soils for roses are those of a sandy or gravelly nature. In such they often suffer fearfully from the drought of summer, scorching up, and dying. Soils of this kind are sometimes bad beyond remedy. The best plan to pursue under such circumstances, is to remove the soil to the depth of about twenty inches, as the beds are marked out, and fill up again with prepared soil. Two-thirds loam-the turf from a pasture, if attainable-and one-third decomposed stable manure will make a good mixture. If a strong loam is within reach, choose such in preference to others, and if thought too adhesive, a little burnt earth or sand, may be mixed with it. A good kind of manure for mixing with the loam, is the remains of a hotbed, which has lain by for a year, and become decomposed. Opiox, a French apothecary, attributes the superiority of the Roses grown for medicinal purposes, in the neighbourhood of Provins, to peculiar properties of the soil, which contains iron in considerable quantity.-Paul's Rose Garden. GLOXINIA FIMBRIATA-THE FRINGED-FLOWERED. THIS beautiful flowering plant was recently received at the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it has bloomed. The plant has very much the appearance of an Achimenes of the strong habit. It grows erect half a yard high, and blooms very freely. Like the rest of the Gloxinias, however, it is an herbaceous plant, the stem dying down after it has flowered and perfected its singular scaly roots, or rather underground stems. It requires to have rest in winter, keeping the roots dry, as is done to the Gloxinias generally, as also to Achimenes, and in all respects treated as the others are. The plant at Kew was grown very vigorously, and did not bloom so freely as one we possessed, which has flowered in profusion. It is one of the loveliest flowering plants we know, in delicacy and beauty far exceeding any other of the tribe. It grows very freely, and is easy of cultivation. It ought to be in every greenhouse and stove. NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. ALL the Begonias are interesting plants, and some of them very Vol. XVII. No. 34.-N.S. X CÆLOGYNE LowII. Mr. Low, jun., sent this pretty species from Borneo to the Clapton Nursery, where it has bloomed, as also at Mr. Rucker's and Mr. Halford's. In Borneo, the pendant spikes of flowers are near two feet long, and very fragrant. The sepals and petals are creamcoloured; the labellum is three-lobed, of the same colour, with a rich orange dash down the centre. The flower is about four inches across. (Figured in Pax. Mag. Bot.) CYRTANTHERA AURANTIACA-ORANGE-FLOwered. Acanthacea. Diandria Monogynia. This beautiful Justicia-like plant was sent from Belgium to Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, who presented it to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it has bloomed. The shrubby plant grows erect, very similar in all respects to the Justicia carnea, and the long thrysus heads of flowers are nearly as large, of a beautiful orange colour. It is an ornamental plant for the stove or greenhouse. (Figured in Bot. Mag. 4468.) GLOXINIA DECAISNE. The leaves are dark green, with white veins, having a pretty appearance. It is a profuse bloomer; the flowers are of a deep rose colour outside, and the lower part of the inside a creamy white, the upper portion a rosy crimson. We have had it in bloom nearly all the past season. HOYA CAMPANULATA. In the hot-house at Mr. Rucker's, of Wandsworth, this interesting species has bloomed freely, having a dozen bunches of its waxy, bellshaped, cream-coloured flowers. OXALIS ELEGANS. This beautiful flowering species, which has usually been grown in the greenhouse, flourishes and blooms profusely in the open border. It is found to be treated as a half-hardy plant usually is; it blooms much finer than in-doors. The flowers are of a deep rose colour, with a rich purple centre. It deserves a place in every greenhouse or flower-garden. PENTSTEMON CORDIFOLIUS. This new species we obtained a short time back, and it has recently flowered. The tube is about an inch and a half long, narrow, and of a dull brownish red. It has much of the shrubby habit, and apparently is quite hardy. Not of much worth. PENTSTEMON CYANANTHUS-AZURE-FLOWERED. This handsome hardy species is a native of the upper valleys of the Plate River in the Rocky Mountains, where seeds were collected by Mr. Burke. It has bloomed in the open ground in the nursery of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter. It is a perennial her |