THIS HIS 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 |