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THE

FLORAL

GAZINE:

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OF

POPULAR GARDEN FLOWERS

BY THE

Rev. H. H. DOMBRAIN, A.B.

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THE PLATES BY J. ANDREWS, P. R. H. S.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

LOVELL REEVE & CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1862.

PEINTED BY

JOHN EDWAED TAYLOE, LITTLE QUEEN STEEET,

LINCOLN’S INN YIELDS.

INDEX.

PLATE

Achimenes, Mauve Queen ( Achimenes hybrida var.) . 124

Amaryllis Unique (. Amaryllis liybrida var.) . . 97

Anigozanthus, Mangles’ ( Anigozanthus Manglesii ) . 81

Auricula: George Lightbody and Sou.th.ern Star ( Primula auricula var.) 108
Auricula, Smith’s Lycurgus (Primula auricula var.) ...... 66

Azalea, Brilliant (. Azalea indica var .) . 118

Azalea, Due d’Aremberg (. Azalea indica var.) . 104

Camellia, Master Bosea (Camellia japonica var.) . 95

Camellia, Contessa Lavinia Maggi (Camellia japonica var.) . . . .105

Cineraria, varieties of (Senecio cruenta vars.) . . . . . Ill

Cineraria, varieties of (Senecio cruenta vars.) . 87

Clarkia, Double-flowered Beautiful (Clarkia pulchella, jlore pleno) . . 91
Chrysanthemum, large-flowering varieties of ( Chrysanthemum sinense vars.) 84
Chrysanthemum, Pompon varieties of (Chrysanthemum sinense vars.) . 85

Clarkia, White-margined (Clarkia pulchella , var. integripetala marginata) 122
Convolvulus, New Starred (Convolvulus cantabricus stellatus novus) . . 93

Coleus, Verschaifelt’s (Coleus Vers chaff el tii) . 96

Dahlia, Mrs. Bush (Dahlia superjlua vars.) . 88

Dahlia, Pompon (Dahlia superjlua vars) . 125

Disa, Large-flowered (Disa grandifiora) . 69

Evening Primrose, Lamarck’s ((Enothera Lamarckiana) . 78

Epacris, varieties of (Eyacris hybrida ) . 100

Erythrina, Hybrid (Erythrina ruberrima ) . 117

Euchsia, Meteor (Euchsia hybrida var) . 107

Euchsia, Bianca and Volunteer (Fuchsia hybrida var) . 82

Geranium, Prince of Hesse (Pelargonium zonale var.) . 72

Geranium, Mrs. Pollock (Pelargonium zonale var) . 101

Gladiolus, Mrs. Dombrain (Gladiolus gandavensis var) . 77

Gladiolus, Mr. J. W. Lane (Gladiolus gandavensis var) . 128

Gloxinia, varieties of (Gloxinia speciosa var) . 115

Hyacinth, Due de Malakoff (Hyacinthus orientalis var) . 98

Honeysuckle, Variegated Japanese (Lonicera reticulata) . 126

Indian Cress, Eclipse (Tropceolum Lobbianum var) . 86

Larkspur, Two-coloured Bee (Delphinium bicolor grandiflomm) . . .114

Lily, New Japanese (Lilium, nova species) . . . 116

Lily, Gold-banded of Japan (Lilium auratum) . 121

IV

INDEX.

PLATE

Mimulus, Copper-coloured {Mimulus cupreus ) . 70

Nolana, Lavender-coloured ( Nolana atriplicifolia var .) . 128

Nerine, Larger Glittering {Nerine corusca major') . 127

Nemophila, Elegant ( Nemophila discoidalis elegans ) . 103

Pansy, varieties of ( Viola tricolor vars.) . 71

Petunia, varieties of single ( Petunia nyctaginiflora vars.) . . . . .109

Petunia, Double-flowered Inimitable ( Petunia violacea var. inimitabilis

Jlore pleno) . . . 68

Primrose, Chinese Double-flowered ( Primula prcenitens Jimbriata jlore

pleno vars.) . 102

Pelargonium, varieties of Show ( Pelargonium hybridum vars.) . . . 99

Pelargonium, Hybrid Greenhouse ( Pelargonium hybridum vars.) . . . 75

Pelargonium, New Fancy (. Pelargonium hybridum vars) . 82

Penstemon, varieties of Hybrid ( [Penstemon hybridum vars.) .... 94

Picotees, Light-edged ( Dianthus Caryophyllus vars.) . 80

Pinks : Dr. Maclean, Delicate ( Dianthus Caryophyllus vars.) .... 74

Pinks : Attraction and Device {Dianthus Caryophyllus vars.) . . . .118

Phloxes, New French ( Phlox decussata var.) . . . .119

Piose, John Hopper ( Rosa hybrida var.) . 110

Pose, Triomphe d’ Amiens {Rosa hybrida var.) . . 79

Eose, Beynolds Hole Hybrid Perpetual ( Rosa hybrida var.) . . . . 73

Eose, L’ Enfant trouve {Rosa indica var.) . 67

Eose, Lord Clyde ( Rosa hybrida var.) . 120

Bhododendron, Climax {Rhododendron catawbiense hybridum) . . . . 65

Sarmienta, Trailing {Sarmienta repens) . 112

Swainsonia, Mauve- coloured {Swainsonia violacea) . 106

Slipperwort, varieties of Shrubby {Calceolaria hybrida vars.) . . . . 90

Slipperwort, Hybrid Shrubby ( Calceolaria hybrida vars.) . 76

Verbena, varieties of {Verbena hybrida vars) . . 89

Zinnia, varieties of Double {Zinnia elegans jlore pleno) . 92

65

Plate 65.

CLIMAX RHODODENDRON.

Rhododendron catawhiense * (hyb.J .

Many persons when they hear of a successful raiser of seed¬
lings call him fortunate, and suppose that it is entirely the re¬
sult of chance ; and that he wdio secures the largest quantity
of seed will obtain the largest number of valuable varieties.
This is entirely a mistake. It is very true that many excellent
seedlings were the result of pure chance, as far as the raiser
-was concerned, as e.g. Lord Raglan Verbena (still much es¬
teemed, although an old flower), came up in the walk of Mr.
Banks’s garden at Sholden ; but it is not true that science and
skill have nothing to do with it in general. No flower has pro¬
bably been more skilfully hybridized, or been more docile under
its treatment, than the Rhododendron ; and wre cannot do bet¬
ter than give, in the words of the raiser of the beautiful variety
figured in our Plate, the manner in wdiich his success has been
obtained. Our valued friend Mr. Standish, of Bagshot, says : —
“ Twenty-five years ago I found that all the hybrids raised be¬
tween Rhododendron arboreum and the different hardy species
were either too tender or bloomed too early in the spring to be
of any use as out-of-door plants, so I set to work in order to have
them more hardy, and have succeeded quite to my expectation.
I have found from my various crosses that, by breeding in and in,
or for several crosses all from the same line, although they were
bred from two distinct plants, and although I obtained good
free bloomers and fine colours, still, being in the same line,
I obtained diseased constitutions, and in many instances the
plants would scarcely grow. Since then I have been breeding

* It is very difficult to give an accurate botanical description of these hybrid
garden flowers, as the blood of so many species enters into them.

from hybrids; but I take great care to get quite distinct lines,
such as the following. We have arboreum , down through se¬
veral generations of catawbiense ; the same through maximum ,
and the same through caucasicum , and several others. Then
we have the arboreum album and cinnamomeum brought down
through the same kinds, through endless generations. The
great thing is to get hybrids from any of these that are not
allied to each other, then you may get hardy late bloomers
of all colours from these different hybrids that will be per¬
fectly healthy. The present subject was raised from a hybrid
catawbiense by a hybrid maximum , and the result is a hardy
late -flowering scarlet -crimson Rhododendron. I have raised
120,000 seedling hybrids within these last two years, whites,
reds, crimson, purples, and rose, which are perfectly hardy ;
but 1 have taken great care to select distinct lines of hybrids.”
If remains only to add, that Climax was exhibited at the open¬
ing fete of the Royal Horticultural Show, and was greatly
admired. It is a deep scarlet-crimson in colour, spotted on
the upper petals with soft dark spots ; the foliage is of a bright
glossy green, and the plant altogether very ornamental.

66.

JAadrews, del .etTith..

Plate 66.

SMITH’S LYCURGUS AURICULA.

Primula Auricula , var .

The ardent and loudly expressed wish of all lovers of this
beautiful spring flower, that a national exhibition of it should
be held in London, seems well-nigh likely to be fulfilled, a
larger number having been shown at one of the early spring-
shows of the Royal Botanic Society this season, than has
been the case since the days when Mr. Dickson, of Acre Lane,
and other growers, used to compete at 44 The Horns,” Kenning-
ton. Independently of the plants staged for competition, Mr.
Turner, of Slongh, sent a collection of sixty varieties, and the
Rev. George Jeans, of Alford, some fine plants of new kinds;
and, if report be true, the number will be largely increased
next season. Amongst the novelties sent by the latter gentle¬
man, few excited so much admiration as the very fine variety
figured in our Plate, and called Lycurgus. It is, we believe, of
Scotch origin, and will deservedly take a high place amongst
other flowers of the class to which it belongs, viz. the green-
edged varieties. Its excellence will be seen, if we allude to
those points which, in the estimation of connoisseurs, constitute
a good Auricula. The individual flower or pip (several of
which make up the truss) is composed of four parts, — the tube
or eye, the paste, the ground-colour, and the edge ; these
should bear nearly an equal proportion in the flower. The
eye ought to be orange, or, at any rate, a bright yellow, and
the stamens and pistil should not project above it; the paste
should be very white, solid, and without cracks; the ground¬
colour should be vivid and rich, equal on all sides, and should
only be broken at its outer edge, and then ought not to run too
far into the true edging of the dower, which should be quite
pure and clean. It is not to be supposed that, although these

J. Andrews, cLeL.etlith.

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Plate 67.

I/ENFANT TROXJVE ROSE.

Rosa indica , var.

There is not probably a class of Roses which is more ad¬
mired, especially by the fairer portion of the community, than
the one to which this variety belongs. Tea Roses lack the glow¬
ing colours of the Hybrid Perpetuals and Bourbons, but their
continuous blooming, their delicacy of colour, and sweetness of
perfume, make ample amends for this ; and though their home
is in the East, yet they will stand, in the southern parts of our
island, very severe winters, succeeding best however when they
are planted against a south wall, or taken up in the autumn to
be again put out in the spring.

The history of the one now figured is peculiar. It wTas exhi¬
bited at one of the June meetings of the Floral Committee of
the Horticultural Society by Mr. B. F. Cant, the well-known
rose-grower of Colchester, as Aurora , with a statement to the
following effect, which subsequent investigation proved to be
correct : — That he had received it nearly eleven years ago from
a clergyman in the county, into whose possession it had come
from Mr. Francis, of Hertford ; that it had been frequently ex¬
hibited at the Rose Shows in that county, and had always been
greatly admired. It had, however, gone out of cultivation, and
Mr. Cant believed that he was the only rose-grower in the
kingdom who possessed it. Under these circumstances, he was
prepared, if it met the approval of the Committee, to carry out
his determination of again distributing it to the public. The
Committee were unanimous in their opinion of its merits, it
being considered a magnificent flower, and from its colour very
desirable ; but, inasmuch as it was not a new Rose, and they
were simply constituted a tribunal to judge of new flowers and
plants, they could not give it any award. They were, however,

convinced that it was not Aurora ; and recommended Mr. Cant,
that, if sent out, it should come before the public under some
other name. Its history considered, none could be more ap¬
propriate than the one it has received, for it is a veritable
foundling. Mr. Cant further stated that it does well budded
on the Banksia , or the common Briar ; but also, as most of the
same class, on its own roots. The plant from which the blooms
sent had been cut, was on a Briar against a south wall.

The habit seems to approach more to the Noisettes, such as
Cloth of Gold and others, the flowers standing nearly as erect
above their foliage as that grand tea-scented Bose, Gloire de
Dijon , and not having the failing of a great many (such as
Eliza Sauvage and Madame William , to which it most nearly
approaches) hanging down their heads when in bloom. The
guard, or outer petals, are large, and of good substance. The
shape quite globular, and the centre of the flower filled in with
a large number of smaller petals, The colour is a rich light yel¬
low, something of the same shade as the cream of rich milk,
becoming dark towards the centre, It is very free in flowering,
the plant from which the Bose was cut, which Mr. Andrews
has so faithfully pourtrayed, having had between three and
four dozen blooms upon it. With these distinctive characte¬
ristics, it cannot fail to be a valuable acquisition to the rose-
grower and to the public in general.

J Andrews, deLet lith.

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Plate 68.

THE DOUBLE-FLOWERED INIMITABLE

PETUNIA.

Petunia violacea , var. inimitabilis flore-pleno .

In one of the earlier numbers of this work, two varieties of
Petunia were figured (Plate 30), one of which, Annie Kien , is
evidently of the same strain as the far more beautiful and dis-
tinct variety now presented to our friends, and possibly few
persons visited the various exhibitions held in London this
spring without having their attention directed to it. It was
first exhibited this season at a meeting of the Floral Committee
of the Royal Horticultural Society, by Messrs. Veitch, of King's
Road Chelsea, and Exeter : it then obtained a first-class certi¬
ficate, and was subsequently exhibited by them at the grand
opening fete at Kensington Gore, and also by Mr, Pike, of
Winchmore Hill, at the Royal Botanic Society’s exhibition.
It is said to be of French origin, from whence, strange to say,
we receive a large number of the bizarre and curiously marked
flowers which now occur in most garden varieties, in Pelar¬
goniums, Dahlias, Pansies, Verbenas, etc. The first move in the
direction of what are called fancy kinds has been made there,
while the careful skill of the English hybridizer has given to
them the form and substance which the foreign varieties gene¬
rally lack. It is a matter of some consequence to find sorts of
this flower which are short and compact in their growth, the
long, straggling growth of many of them, both single and
double, being greatly against them. This, as will be seen by re¬
ference to the Plate, is dwarf and close in its habit, the joints
short, and the blooming profuse ; hence it is admirably adapted
for pot culture, the stems generally supporting the flower
without the aid of artificial props. The flowers themselves are
very striking, being white, with broad distant bands of deep

mauve, the shade of colour varying much (as in many dowers)
on each plant, probably to be attributed to the age of the
flower.

As the Petunia is very easily grown and propagated, doubtless
this beautiful variety will very soon be found in all parts of the
country, and wTill form a handsome plant for the decoration of
conservatories and verandahs when Pelargoniums and other
flowers are past their prime. There was exhibited at the Koyal
Botanic show in July, by Mr. Ferguson, of Stowe, a single va¬
riety in wdiich each segment of the limb of the flower was
marked by a distinct stripe down the centre, without any
other blotching or veining ; and this too we have no doubt will
become a general favourite.

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Plate 69.

THE LARGE-ELQWERED DISA.

Disci grandiflora.

The extremely beautiful Orchid which Mr. Andrews has so
faithfully portrayed, is one of which it was said, in a work of
no slight authority, published not very long since, “ It has
hitherto baffled the skill of English cultivators,” a statement
which, owing to the ability and perseverance of one gentleman,
is now no longer applicable to it, as thousands who visited the
Exhibition of the Royal Horticultural Society this season have
been enabled to testify. The merit of overcoming the difficulty
is due entirely to Charles Leach, Esq., of King’s Hoad, Clapham
Park, to whose courtesy we are indebted for our Plate, permis¬
sion to make a drawing of it in his greenhouse having been in
the kindest manner granted to our artist.

Few lovers of flowers who had correspondents at the Cape of
Good Hope, but received, amongst their Brunsvigias, Vallotas,
and what are called Cape bulbs in general, roots of Disci gran -
diflora , and the opinion was naturally formed that, like other
bulbs, it had its season of rest, consequently it was allowed to
grow for a time, and then dried off, never, it was found, to revive
again. Mr. Leach had in a similar way oftentimes received it,
and as often lost it : but he noticed, some two or three years
ago, that one plant of it retained its freshness till far on towards
the winter, and it then occurred to him that as it was a bog
plant, possibly it did not dry up at all;* he consequently kept
it watered, and the result has been that plants which we our¬
selves saw, had, in the course of fifteen months, from a very
small piece, completely filled a large pan, and thrown up spikes
of bloom. The same course of treatment was adopted, with
slight modifications, by Herr Schiller, of Hamburg, and we be¬
lieve that in the course of time it will not only be grown in

every greenhouse, but that it will be planted out in sheltered
places in gentlemen’s demesnes, near streams or ponds, where
it will readily grow during the summer months ; for amongst
other experiments which Mr. Leach is trying, is that of growing
it in a pot placed in another filled with water, and in this position
it seems to thrive admirably, as we can ourselves state from the
condition of a plant, for which we are indebted to the kindness
of Mr. Leach.

Disci grandiflora is a native of a ravine on the top of Table
Mountain at the Cape of Good Hope, and as far as is known at
present, no other habitat has been found for it, a remarkable
instance of the very local distribution of some plants. It is
what is called a terrestrial Orchid, and as the thermometer often
sinks there to S2°, it can be grown in any greenhouse from
which frost is excluded. The spike is thrown up about
eighteen inches or two feet high, and the very beautiful and
high-coloured flowers are freely produced. The colouring of
the Plate is so accurate, that it is unnecessary to describe it.
There seem however to be two varieties ; in the other, the green
tips to the sepals are wanting, and the rich crimson spotting of
the labellum is not perhaps quite so brilliant. We have only to
add that the general acknowledgment of the gardening world
is that it was one of the most interesting subjects of the year,
and, although an old plant, was far more so, not only from the
peculiarities of its cultivation, but from its intrinsic beauty,
than many so-called novelties.

Our artist has given an outline sketch of a growing plant, in
order to show its character ; it will be thus seen to be very free-
flowering.

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J Andrews, deLetlith.

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Plate 70.

THE COPPER-COLOURED MIMULUS.

Mimulus cupreus .

If there be one word which more than another has increased
in value in the gardening world, it is that of “hardy;” and
when we can prefix to it “ perfectly,” the flower so designated
at once establishes its character. The last winter was so fatal in
most places to the fairest productions of our parterres and shrub¬
beries ; before that terrible frost, following the wet and sunless
summer, plants and flowers we had long ceased to think of as
tender, fell in such multitudes, that many despair of ever seeing
their gardens as they were previously. When the choicest
Roses and the finest Conifers, nay, when our universal favou¬
rite the Laurustinus, and even (as at Elvaston) our common
English Holly, were killed to the ground, we can thoroughly
understand how much gardeners will prize anything which can
be pronounced as “perfectly hardy.” It is this, as well as their
intrinsic beauty, that gives such importance to those rare and
beautiful variegated plants sent home by Mr. Fortune from
Japan, and that, for the same reasons, will make the plant we
now figure so very desirable.

Mimulus cupreus was exhibited by Messrs. Yeitch and Son,
of the Exotic Nursery, Chelsea and Exeter, at the opening fete
of the Royal Horticultural Society, in a collection of miscella¬
neous plants, wdiich received a special award. It was then
greatly admired for its exceedingly dwarf habit and the un¬
usual colour of the flowers. We are indebted to the kindness of
Messrs. Yeitch, of Exeter, for the following extract from their
correspondent’s letter in Chili : — “ A beautiful thing, not es¬
sentially differing from Mimulus luteus in form, except that it
would be dwarfer and more delicate, but having flowers of the
richest orange-crimson, if may use the term ; in fact, an almost

indescribable colour ; decidedly a gem in its way, and perfectly
hardy.” It grows from four to eight inches high, in a stiff loam,
at an elevation of six thousand to seven thousand feet above
the sea, at Chellan, in South Chili. Like all the tribe, the
individual flowers are of an evanescent character, but it blooms
so very profusely, that this is of comparatively minor import¬
ance. Our artist has represented two distinct tints of colour in
the blooms, one lighter than the other, doubtless the result of
age. It will be very easily propagated by either cuttings or
divisions of the roots, and will therefore probably ere long find
its way into general cultivation.

J Andrews, del et litK

Yirtcent, Brooks, Imp

Plate 71.

VABIETXES OE HEABTSEASE OB PANSEY.

Viola tricolor , var.

It is sometimes said of the growers of florist flowers, that
they lay down rules with regard to the form and marking of
their special favourites, which are either impracticable, or, if
obtained, are of no advantage to the flower ; and of floral de¬
lineators, that they make their subjects more perfect than they
are in nature. But we have ever found that by placing two
flowers side by side, one of which fulfilled the required condi¬
tions, the other not, and then appealing to those who were not
florists, they have always acknowledged that, however appa¬
rently conventional the rules, they are founded on good taste
and a just appreciation of beauty; and if any one considers the
drawing of the florist varieties in the present Plate too perfect,
we can only say that when Lady Lucy Bandas was exhibited by
Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing, it was pronounced to be the
nearest approach to a perfect circle that had as yet been ob¬
tained in this class.

We have, in fact, in order to show the difference between a
wTell-formed flower and one not of good shape, placed on our
Plate four varieties,* two of what are called florist varieties,
and two of a race lately introduced from Belgium and France

# 1. Belle Esquimaux (Eancy) : pale-yellowish ground, crimson upper pe¬
tals, an enormous eye of the same colour, and the belting on the lower
petal nearly covering it.

2. Mibacle (Eancy) : creamy-white, with large eye and blotch of deep-

purple.

3. Lady Lucy Dundas (Zt, Z., and Z.) : clear white ground and deep

purplish-maroon belting ; an exquisite flower.

4. Eev. Thomas Downie (Zt, Z., and Z.) : deep golden-yellow, with a deep

bronzy-purple belting, fine large dark blotch.

(and in which we foresee great improvements) — - fancies , and we
think every one would acknowledge that the latter would gain
much were they of the same exquisite rotundity as the former.
The four varieties were all exhibited, amongst many others, by
Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing, of Edinburgh, and Stanstead
Park, Forest Hill, who are not only very successful growers, but
raisers of some very beautiful varieties ; and indeed the larger
number of the finest flowers are now raised by the indefatigable
perseverance of our friends across the Tweed. The greater
coolness and moisture of Scotland seem to be more favourable
to their growth than our more sunny south, it being with great
difficulty that during a dry summer a collection can be kept
alive here. Florist varieties of Pansies are divided into three
classes: — 1. Selfs, which are either dark purple, shaded purple,
white, or yellow. 2. Yellow grounds, in which the colour is
either pale or light yellow, marked with various shades of ma¬
roon, crimson, puce, chocolate, etc., with the eye dense and of
the same colour as the edge of the petals. 3. White grounds,
where the colour must be pure white and the edges either blue
or pimple, with the eye of the same colour. Examples of the
two latter classes are to be found in the Rev. Thomas JDownie
and Lady Lucy Dundas. Fancy or Belgian and French varieties
have not yet been classified, and indeed their bizarre character
at present would make that exceedingly difficult.

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J. Andrews, del et iitb-

Plate 72.

GERANIUM PRINCE OE HESSE.

Geranium zonale , var .

The modern style of gardening popularly known as the
“ bedding-out system,” has led to the cultivation and improve¬
ment by hybridizing of the old horseshoe and other varieties of
the Geranium tribe, and the result has been the production of
many kinds of very dissimilar habits and markings both in the
foliage and in the flowers. In effecting this, two objects have
been gained: the obtaining of sorts very desirable for continuance
of bloom and power of withstanding the influence of weather ;
and of others which are more suitable for indoor decoration at
a period of the year when greenhouses are denuded of their re¬
gular occupants. The want of keeping these two objects dis¬
tinct has often led to disappointment in purchasers. A sort is
raised which as a seedling and in the greenhouse looks very
beautiful, but is not tested out-of-doors sufficiently before it is
sent out ; it is then tried in the garden, and is found not to he
capable of bearing the change of temperature to which we are
subject in our uncertain climate. Most of the tricoloured zone
varieties are of this latter character.

The variety which we now figure was raised by that very suc¬
cessful hybridizer Mr. Ingram, of the Royal Gardens, Frogmore,
to whom we are indebted for Frogmore Improved , Princess
Boyal , and other sorts, and for some of our best varieties of
Strawberries and other fruits. The stock of it has passed into
the hands of Mr. Charles Turner, of the Royal Nursery, Slough,
who exhibited it at one of the meetings of the Floral Com¬
mittee, when it received a label of commendation. It was then
named Prince Louis of Hesse , but by command of Her Ma¬
jesty the Queen, was changed into Prince of Hesse. It is one
of those sorts which will be more suitable for the greenhouse

than for the open ground. The colour of it is a beautiful
salmon-rose, shading off in the edges of the petals to a more
delicate shade of the same, the centre of the flower being also
of a lighter colour; the foliage is very handsome, strongly
marked with the horseshoe ; and the flowers are produced in
great abundance, the individual trusses being large ; and as it
was exhibited so early in the year, it would seem to be one of
those varieties which bloom freely in the winter, and if so, it
will be very suitable for cutting from, for bouquets and for ge¬
neral decorative effect. It will be distributed to the public next
spring, when a favourable opportunity of testing its general
merits will be afforded — merits which have been acknowledged
not only by the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural
Society, but also at the Royal Botanic Society’s and Crystal
Palace Exhibitions, and which we therefore think must be con¬
siderable.

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Plate 73.

HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE, REYNOLDS

HOLE.

Rosa ( hybrida J, var.

The history of the Rose is unlike that of any other flower-
No flower has been so universally admired, or employed for
such various purposes : it has been the theme of the poet’s
song, and has been used in Holy Writ as the emblem of all that
is glorious; while amongst the luxurious Homans it pandered
to their lusts, and added, it was supposed, zest to their feasts.
Ever since Sappho called it the Queen of Flowers, it has never
lost its proud pre-eminence ; and now, fostered by the hand of
man, who has expended on it skill, perseverance, and labour, it
has acquired a size, a beauty, and a permanence the ancients
never knew of. “ The last rose of summer” becomes a myth,
for far on into dreary November the races of Hybrid Perpetuals,
Teas, and Bourbons, favour us with their beautiful blooms.

During the present century the progress of the Rose, both in
general favour and in intrinsic excellence, has been most re¬
markable. So popular is it now, that the Metropolis holds two
exhibitions, one at Kensington Gore, the other at the Crystal
Palace, to do it alone honour, and to these places are brought
the choicest productions of the best Rose-gardens in England ;
and at both of them this year the variety which we now figure
was deservedly admired. It was exhibited by our kind friend
Mr. John Standish, of the Royal Nursery, Bags hot, to whom we
are also indebted for the very fine bloom forwarded to our
artist, which he has so faithfully reproduced.

The class of Hybrid Perpetuals to which “ Reynolds Hole ”
belongs, is one which seems destined to ere long entirely super¬
sede the Summer Roses, which so long a time held the first

place in popular favour. The exquisite forms of such Roses as
Coupe d'Hebe and Charles Lawson are now equalled by Comtesse
de Cl tab rill and and Madame Vidot , the glowing colours of Paul
Bicaut and Brennus , are not more brilliant than Gloire de
Santhenay and Jules Margottin ; and although there are still a
few’ Roses whose peculiar colours and shapes are as yet unap¬
proached, such as Boula de Nanteuil and Kean , yet we may
hope ere long to see even these matched in this class. We
have nearly, too, approached a white in Mademoiselle Bonnaire;
and in “ Reynolds Hole ” we have as lively and bright a pink
as is to be found in the whole range of Summer Roses.

With but a few exceptions, all the new Roses come from
France (a few have lately been introduced from America ; and
Bevoniensis and one or two others are of English origin).
The subject of the present Plate was raised by M. Trouillard,
the intelligent foreman of M. Le Roy, of Angers, and from him
it has passed into the hands of Mr. Standish, who has named it
in compliment to a gentleman who, in originating the National
Rose Show, has perhaps done more for the popularity of the
Queen of Flowers than any one living. The habit of the plant
is most vigorous, the shoots being very strong, and the blooms
well thrown up above the foliage. The shape is exquisite, and
the petals are of great substance and size, and consequently,
unlike many of its congeners, it does not fade off when out for
a day or two ; but, on the contrary, acquires deeper brilliancy
of colour, which is a very lively pink. Mr. Standish purposes
sending it out next May, together with some other excellent
varieties, the stock of which is in his hands.

Amongst the new Roses of the year, we think Madame Fur -
tado , General Washington , Bug de Gazes , Triomphe J Amiens,
and H Enfant Trouve, are likely to prove valuable additions to
the Rose-garden.

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Plate 74.

PINKS, DE. MACLEAN AND DELICATA.

DiantJius Caryophyllus , var.

Notwithstanding the great difference in appearance between
the Pink, Carnation, and Picotee, most botanists are agreed in
regarding them as merely varieties of the Clove-Pink, and to
it we have referred the subjects of the present Plate.

Like many other flowers, it has of late years received a great
deal of attention, and has been much improved both in size and
beauty of appearance, although at the present moment there is
a curious difference between the growers of Pinks in the north
and south of England; the Northerns contending that the
southern flowers are mops , and the Southerners retorting by de¬
claring a Pink with two rows of petals does not deserve the
name of a flower. Various attempts have been made to recon¬
cile this contrariety of taste, but without effect, and in some
of the Southern lists may be seen some flowers marked with an
asterisk, with the notification that they are more suited for
Northern growers.

The cultivator who has above all others contributed to the
present advanced position of the Pink, is the veteran florist Dr.
Maclean of Colchester. A glance at Mr. Turner’s Catalogue,
or indeed that of any grower, will show that by far the larger
proportion of the best flowers are of his raising, and it is only
fitting that one of such superior quality should bear his name.
We once had the pleasure of visiting him when his Pinks were
in bloom, and found, as it is with many of our most successful
florists, that it was not the size of his garden, but his own skill
and judgment, that had contributed to his success. He then
said he must retire from the field to give place to younger and
better men ; but we hope and believe his threat will not be
fulfilled.

It is but fair, however, to our friends to say that such blooms
as those which Mr. Andrews has figured have been subjected to
a process known amongst florists as u dressing.” (The same may
be said of the Carnations and Picotees figured in our last vo¬
lume.) As symmetry of form and regularity of outline is so
much admired, an exhibitor does not hesitate to supply by a
little manipulation what he believes to be defects ; nothing is
added to a flower, but the petals are arranged more regularly,
and any defective ones extracted. This is a perfectly well-
known fact amongst all growers, and is beginning to be under¬
stood by the public in general. Many varieties, however, which
have long pods, as the bud is technically called, open quite flat,
and require no dressing whatever.

The two varieties now figured were exhibited by Mr. Charles
Turner, of the Royal Nursery, Slough, by whom they were
raised, at a meeting of the Floral Committee of the Royal
Horticultural Society in June last, when a first-class certificate
was awarded to Delicata (Fig. 2). It is a very fine full-sized
variety ; the lacing being of a light lively purple, and the spot
at the base of each petal of a deeper shade of the same colour.
Dr. Maclean (Fig. 1) is another very attractive flower, the lacing
being very deep and rich, and although it did not receive any
award, we have but little doubt that it will hold an equally
high place with its more successful companion. They are both
exceedingly vigorous growers, and will both, we believe, be ge¬
neral favourites.

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Plate 75.

HYBRID GREENPIOUSE GERANIUMS.

Pelargonium (hyhridumj , var.

If there be one flower which more than another deserves the
name of “ Everybody’s Flower,” it is the Pelargonium; for every¬
where we meet with it : in the cottage-window, in the lonely
garret, and even within the prison walls — more cherished per¬
haps than when in the conservatory of the nobleman or the
boudoir of the lady of fashion, and this not merely from its
intrinsic beauty, great as that is, but also from the easiness of its
culture. While it will, like everything else, show the effects of
good care and attention, it will also endure an amount of hard¬
ship which would kill another flower.

The advances that it has made in popular favour have been
very great. We can well remember the time when the Eev.
Mr. Garth, of Farnham, and Mr. Forster, of Clewer Manor, first
started in the race for public favour, and nothing was heard of
but Garth’s Syljph and Forster’s Joan of Arc. At that time
there was but one class, those known now as Florists’ Gera¬
niums. Some years afterwards, those now designated as Fancies
were introduced, at first ill-shaped in form and faint in colour,
now perfectly symmetrical and of very beautiful tints. The
appearance of one variety with spots in each petal was the
avant-courier of a race now known as Spotted Pelargoniums,
while some years ago M. Chauviere, of the Rue de la Pochette,
Paris, turning his attention to them, first led the way in the
curiously bizarre and spotted varieties known now as French
Pelargoniums ; so that, independently of the bedding varieties
of Geranium, there are now four distinct classes, vying with
one another in brightness of colouring, symmetry of form, and
beauty of foliage.

The most celebrated raisers of seedlings have been now for

some years, Mr. Forster, above mentioned; Mr. Hoyle, of
Reading, whose flowers are of very beautiful shape and gene¬
rally form the largest portion of those exhibited at the great
annual shows held in London ; Mr. Charles Turner, of the
Royal Nursery, Slough ; Mr. Dobson, of Islewrorth ; and the
late Mr. Beck, of Worton Cottage, Islewrorth. The flowers now
figured were raised by the latter gentleman, one who was well
known, and whose memory will be long cherished as an up¬
right, intelligent, and enthusiastic grower. They were exhi¬
bited by his gardener, Mr. Wiggins, at the Royal Horticultural
Society, this year, and are to be distributed this autumn by Mr.
Charles Turner, of the Royal Nursery, Slough.

Mira (1) is a flow7er of great clearness of petal, very smooth
and distinct, with a rich large spot of deep crimson in each
petal, shading off into a lighter colour towards the edge, and
leaving a clear margin of rose around.

Sylph (2) is a flow7er of extreme purity, a glossy w7hite, and
with a deep decided spot in the top petals, giving the flower
an appearance of considerable novelty. Both are free-grow7ing
varieties, and we believe will be general favourites. Flowers
larger and perhaps more circular in shape have been exhibited,
but v7e have considered these well worthy of a place in our
Magazine from the beauty of their appearance.

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Plate 76.

HYBRID SHRUBBY SLIPPERWORT.

Calceolaria fhyhridaj * var.

Some years ago there was a great furore for Calceolarias,
and many very beautifully marked and well formed varieties
were obtained by Messrs. Kinghorn and other raisers of flo¬
rists’ flowers, but they were of the herbaceous kind, and it was
found almost impossible to keep up the sorts, owing to the ex¬
treme difficulty of preserving them though the winter months,
as they are very apt, in technical language, to “ fog off." At
last the attempt was abandoned, and a fine strain of seed having
been obtained by several growers, such as Messrs. Henderson,
of St. John’s Wood, Mr. Dobson, of Xsleworth, Mr. Cattell, of
Westerham, etc., lovers of the tribe now find it better to pur¬
chase seed from them every year, and treat the flowers simply
as annuals. Other growers, amongst whom we may mention
Mr. Cole, of St. Alban’s, attempted to obtain a race of plants
which, crossed with some of the herbaceous kinds, should ex¬
hibit their size and markings combined with the growth of the
more hardy species, (of these, “Gem” may be considered the
type,) but there was too much of the herbaceous blood in them,
and consequently they became also neglected. It was reserved
to a nurseryman hitherto unknown, to originate a race, which
seems, we believe, destined likely to accomplish this desirable
end, and the seedlings raised and exhibited by Mr. Burley, of

* Although we have given this botanical name to these flowers, we feel it
is not strictly correct : a hybrid is the product of two distinct species ; but the
garden varieties of most popular flowers are not hybrids in this sense, inas¬
much as they are frequently the products of hybrids, and these plants have per¬
haps the blood of several species in them ; but the above must be used for
want of a better, though we know the difficulty of affixing botanical names and
botanical descriptions to the popular flowers of the greenhouse and garden.

Limpsfield, Surrey, seem likely to become general favourites.
He has been now for many years engaged in it, and every year
his skill and perseverance have been rewarded by an advance
in form, size, and markings ; the plants which he has exhibited
at the various exhibitions during the season have been of large
size, and have attracted general attention, and he informs us
that they can be kept in bloom from May to October, while
some of them are likely to form excellent varieties for bedding
out. It is well known that the Calceolaria suffers much from
green-fly ; but if this is attented to (fumigating so as to keep
it down whenever it appears), and shading during the midday
sun, there are no plants of easier culture in the greenhouse
than these. The varieties now figured are, (1) angustifolia
superha , and (2) Duke of Wellington ;* the former is a seedling
from the old angustifolia , and has the advantages of the parent
plant ; erect in habit, it stands the weather well, and lasts on far
into the autumn. Mr. Burley says, that he has had it bedded
out for the last two years, and that lie has not seen a single
plant of it die, as Calceolarias are very apt to do in the summer
months. It was awarded an extra prize at the Royal Botanic
Society’s Exhibition at the Regent’s Park, last June. Duke of
Wellington is a seedling between angustifolia globosa and Ge¬
neral Havelock , shrubby and dwarf in growth, like the former,
but the colour closely approaches the latter well-known variety.
Being a rich dark-crimson, it makes a first-rate bedding plant.
Both of these will be sent out next spring. The following
sorts, raised by Mr. Burley, are both handsome and moderate in

price :

Etna : crimson, tinted with violet.
Little JDorrit : soft yellow.

Magenta : dark velvet-crimson.
Princess Helena : yellow.

Hon. Mrs. Adams : primrose, spotted

Lady Palmerston : yellow, with red
spots.

Victor Emmanuel : red-scarlet, with
crimson spots.

General Havelock : rich maroon.

with crimson.

The Queen : yellow, cinnabar spots.

Ambassador : brown, with red spots.

# These have been selected as valuable bedding varieties. We hope at some
future time to figure some of the spotted kinds.

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Plate 77.

GLADIOLUS, MES. DOMBEAIN.

Gladiolus gandavensis , var.

Some three or four years ago, Her Majesty the Queen was
greatly pleased with some varieties of Gladiolus, of French
origin, and instructions were given to the gardener at Osborne
to cultivate them, as they would be frequently required as cut
flowers for table decoration. Under such patronage, the flower
has now become one of the most fashionable of the day, and
forms an agreeable variety in the autumn exhibitions of flo¬
rists’ flowers.

At that time application was made by Her Majesty’s gar¬
dener to one who was, and is still, the most celebrated raiser
in France, M. Souchet, for some hints as to the best manner of
growing them. He very kindly wrote a short treatise upon it,
and it having been shown to our valued friend Mr. Standish,
of Bagshot, it immediately occurred to him that the soil recom¬
mended for it was such as his nursery supplied, and being a
skilful hybridizer, he immediately commenced on a large scale,
and so successful has he been that he has already five hundred
varieties sufficiently good to be kept under name, equalling in
colour, size, and shape any of those introduced from the Con¬
tinent. He selected as the parents of his stock two flowers
of valuable properties, Adonis and Ninon de VEnclos , and has
thus obtained his stock ; but finding, as is always the case,
that breeding in-and-in, however it may produce beauty of co¬
louring, also engenders tenderness of constitution, he has, in
order to avoid this, from time to time introduced the Mood of
some of the best foreign ones, and hence his varieties are dis¬
tinguished for vigour of constitution as well as for beauty.

The Gladiolus is very easily cultivated, and will succeed w~ell
in any light garden soil. It does not, as was at first supposed, dis-

like manure, as we can testify from the manner in which it has
succeeded in our own garden ; but it is necessary that it should
be well decomposed. Another point to be carefully attended
to is, the drying of the bulbs : this should be done quickly, as
they are apt to contract mildew if dried off gradually.

The variety now figured, Mrs. Dombrain , is one of Mr. Stan-
dish’s numerous seedlings. The ground colour is a very light
blush, approaching to white, merging into a deep rose-colour
towards the tips, and distinctly striped with bright rosy-carmine
bars : the lip has a very bright carmine bar in its centre, and
in the centre of the throat there are two very bright crimson
spots, altogether presenting a very charming appearance, en¬
hanced by the fact, that, unlike some varieties in which the
flowers are set back to back in two rows, in this they are placed
side by side.

It has been questioned whether the Gladiolus will be suc¬
cessful as a decorative plant. We believe that to effect this
clumps or masses of it of one colour must be planted ; but we
apprehend it will be even more valued as a florist’s flower.

.Andrews, del ebTith.

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Plate 78.

LAMARCK’S EVENING PRIMROSE.

CEnothera Lamar chiana.

There are a large number of persons who are hindered, by
want of means or other circumstances, from falling into the
now almost universal system of gardening ; for where facilities
cannot be had for wintering Verbenas, bedding Geraniums, and
other tender plants, now so extensively used, it is, of course,
simply impossible, without incurring the expense of buying
plants every spring, to bed out in any extensive way.

It is amongst this class of persons that annuals and biennials
find so much favour. They are easy of cultivation, a few pack¬
ages of seed are sufficient for a moderate-sized garden, and
they afford a good deal of variety, not only in the colour of the
flowers, but in their form, and a judicious selection of sorts will
enable persons to have them in bloom for the greater portion
of the year, from the time that Nemophila insignis opens its
clear blue petals, down to the last Aster that falls a victim to
the October frost ; but we would deprecate the loose and irre¬
gular way in which such things are often done : a circle is first
made, and then enough seed thrown in to sow ten times the
space ; if they were sown more carefully and not so thickly, or
thinned out afterwards, annuals and biennials would present a
much more respectable appearance than they often do.

In our last volume, a variety of CEnothera , called CE. Youngii ,
was figured (Plate 54), but a reference to that will show, com¬
pared with the present, how very distinct they are. The one
now figured was grown by Messrs. Carter and Co., the well-
known seedsmen of High Holborn, and of the Crystal Palace
nursery, Forest Hill; and to them we are indebted for the fol¬
lowing particulars : —

“ We received, about four years ago, some seed from Texas

unnamed. When we had flowered it, we sent some blooms to
Dr. Lindley, who pronounced it to be (Enothera LamarcMana
a species, we believe, introduced into England by Mr. Drum¬
mond. Its height is between three and four feet ; it blooms
the first year, is a very hardy biennial, and is superior to any
other (Enothera in the size and number of its blossoms, which
measure four inches in diameter. The colour is a rich golden-
yellow (the pollen on the stamens being orange, relieves the
uniformity of tint). On a single plant, we counted upwards of
six hundred open blooms, buds, and seed-pods.”

The drawing was made from a small spray, and will give an
idea of the profuseness of its bloom, as well as of the compact
character of its growth. We doubt not that, like other bien¬
nial species, if sown in autumn, it would stand through the
winter, and bloom early in spring.

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Plate 79.

TEIOMPHE D’ AMIENS EOSE.

Rosa Jiylrida , var.

When the report was current last autumn that, amongst the
new Eoses to be introduced from the Continent, one was to be
“ yellow as a Jonquil, and the other striped like a Carnation,”
rosarians were in great delight, which would have been more
intense, doubtless, but for the fact that they have been accus¬
tomed to find out that there is some difference between promise
and performance, especially in the matter of French Eoses.
One of these, Route J Or, has not, as yet, answered the expec¬
tations formed of it, though we saw it lately in great beauty
in the garden of the raiser, M. Margo ttin, of Bourg-la-Eeine,
near Paris; but we can, we think, safely say that Triomjyhe
(T Amiens has fully maintained the good opinion that was
formed of it.

We believe that we are correct in saying that this very
beautiful and distinct variety was raised by M. Meillez, of
Amiens, and that it is a seedling from General Jacqueminot ,
which Eose it somewhat resembles in the character of its fo¬
liage, though considerably more double than that favourite
flower. The colour is a rich and deep crimson, distinctly barred
and splashed with stripes of a deeper shade, giving it a very cha¬
racteristic and distinct appearance. The petals are large, and
slightly inclined to curl at the edge. The plant itself seems to
be vigorous, although it has not that thickness of wood which
marks Reynolds Hole and some other varieties. Owing to the
manner in which new plants are worked upon for stock, it is
rarely that a Eose is seen in good condition the first season,
and we quite expect to see the subject of our present notice in
much better condition next year ; and we have the authority
of our good friend the Eev. W. F. EadclyfFe, of Eushton, near

Blandford, (than whom a more enthusiastic rose-grower does
not exist,) for saying that he considers it one of the most strik¬
ing flowers of the season.

The desire for having Boses on their own roots having been
now unmistakably expressed, the subject of stocks is not per¬
haps of that importance it formerly was; the Manetti , intro¬
duced by Mr. Bivers, has been greatly praised by some, and as
loudly denounced by others. Our own impression is, that it
is an excellent stock for light soils, or for vigorous varieties on
heavy soils, but that it does not suit the more delicate-growing
ones. We were therefore interested in noticing, at a visit
lately paid by us to M. Leroy’s nursery at Angers, in France,
that it is his practice to grow seedling plants of the common
Briar, and to bud or graft the weaker-growing roses on it,
a practice which we saw had succeeded admirably, and one we
think well worthy the consideration of English growers.

There is no lack of new varieties, as we believe upwards of
eighty are announced this season, the greater portion of which
will doubtless be discarded ; and the most promising of which
are, we believe, Souvenir de Comte Cavour and Alexandre Dumas ,
seedlings received by M. Margottin, the raiser of Louise Odder
and Jules Margottin.

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Plate 80.

LIGHT-EDGED PICOTEES.

Dianthus Caryophyllus , var.

Amidst the revived taste for florists’ flowers, of which we may
discover considerable traces around us, we hope the numerous
varieties of Carnations and Picotees will be considered worthy
of cultivation ; for, although they doubtless entail a vast deal
of trouble, both in their growth and blooming, and are compa¬
ratively a short time in flower, yet there is something so exqui¬
sitely beautiful and delicate in them, we do not wonder that
whenever exhibited they attract a large share of attention,
and that sometimes the uninitiated believe that they must be
artificial, so delicate is the colouring, and so thick and wax-like
the petal.

Picotees are divided into six distinct classes, — red-edged,
purple-edged, and rose- or scarlet-edged, of each of these there
being two classes, known as heavy and light edges, this term
being applied not to intensity of the colour, but to the breadth
of it on the edge ; and in our Plate we give representations,
most carefully and faithfully made, by Mr. Andrews, of two of
the newest varieties produced. They were exhibited by Mr.
Turner, of Slough, at one of the meetings of the Floral Com¬
mittee of the Royal Horticultural Society, along with some
other seedlings, and were greatly admired. No. 1, Mrs. Hole
(named in compliment to the wife of the Rev. S. Reynolds
Hole), is a light red-edged flower, of good properties ; the pe¬
tals are large, and of good substance, and of a pure white ; the
edge is of a clear bright red, confined to the margin of the
petal, without bar or spot, and the habit of the plant is good.
The flower itself reminds one of Turners Eugenie , but the white
is much purer than in that favourite variety. It received a label
of commendation. No. 2, Lady Elcho , is a very pretty example

of the light-edged purple varieties, the colour being quite con¬
fined to the edge, and the white also being very pure : the habit
of the plant is also good. Both varieties are in the possession of
Mr. Charles Turner, of the Royal Nursery, Slough ; but, owing
to the stock being small, they will not be distributed to the
public this season, as was at first intended.

As this period of the year is the one most suitable for pro¬
curing sorts, and as we hope to induce some of our friends to
essay their growth, we think we cannot do better than append
a list of a few of the most striking varieties in each class, dis¬
tinguished for their beauty and excellence of habit, and at the
same time moderate in price.

Red-edged.

Ada Mary (Smith) ; very fine, light.
Eugenie (Turner) : light.

Lauretta (Smith) ; light.

Miss HoTbeck (Kirtland) ; light.
Charlemagne (Turner) ; heavy.

Mrs. Bodwell (Turner) ; heavy.
Mrs. Moyle (Hoyle) ; heavy.
Eavorita (Kirtland) ; heavy.

Purple-edged.

Amy Rohsart (Dodwell) ; light.
Eliza (Payne) ; light.

Finis (May) ; light.

National (Kirtland) ; light. ,

John Linton (Headley) ; heavy.

Lord Nelson (Norman) ; heavy.

Mrs. May (Turner) ; heavy.

Rival Purple (Headley) ; heavy.

Rose- and Scarlet-edged.

Miss Meeking (Kirtland) ; light.
Bertha (Marris) ; light.

Eva (Smith) ; light.

Mrs. Turner (Dodwell) ; light.
Princess Alice (Kirtland) ; heavy.
Rev. H. Matthews (Kirtland) ; heavy.
Lady Grenville (Turner) ; heavy.
Mrs. Brake (Turner) ; heavy.

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Plate 81.

MANGLES’ ANIGOZANTHUS.

Anigozan thus* Manglesii .

The very remarkable-looking flower, of which we have now
the pleasure of presenting a portrait to our friends, is not a new
one ; but as it has received this season a special certificate from
the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, and
as we entertain strong hopes that the difficulties which have
heretofore attended its cultivation will be so overcome as to
entitle it to the appellation of a “ popular flower,” we have
thought it desirable to include it in our present issue.

The plant was first introduced into England in 1833, seeds
of it having been sent in that year by Sir James Sterling,
Governor of Swan River, to Robert Mangles, Esq., of Whitmore
Lodge, Berks, f and under the care of his gardener (who hav¬
ing grown it in an airy part of the greenhouse in the winter,
planted it out in the open border, in a compost composed of
maiden loam, leaf-mould, and bog-earth) it throve very well,
and in about ten months from the time of the seed being sown,
showed its singular scapes of bloom. Whether this treatment
was unsuited for it permanently or not,j we do not know; but,
at any rate, it seemed to have acquired the bad. character of
“ fogging off” in winter, and hence had been almost lost sight
of, until in the present year the very fine plant from which our
figure was taken, was exhibited by Mr. Kinghorn, of Sheen
Nursery, Richmond, and not only received the special award
to which we have already referred, but was pronounced by Dr.

* The generic name is derived from cu/ecr^co, £ I raise up,’ and avOos, ‘ a
flower,’ from bearing up proudly its crown of flowers.

t Maund’s Botanist, where it is figured, ii. t. 67. It is also figured in Bot.
Mag. t. 3S75, and in Sweet’s Blower Garden, ii. t. 265.
t It was wintered in a cold frame.

Hooker, in a letter which has been kindly handed to us, to be
the finest plant of it by far that he had ever seen.

Mr. Kinghorn informs us that the seed was presented to him
in July of last year by H. W. Pownall, Esq., of Richmond, who
received them from his brother, the Very Rev. George P. Pow¬
nall, Dean of Perth, Western Australia, labelled, “ Anigozan-
thus, or Kangaroo’s-foot plant, the finest flower we have col¬
lected near this city.” Pie succeeded in raising one plant, which
was re-potted occasionally in rough turfy loam, a little peat,
and rough, dry, old manure, as he conceived it to be a plant re¬
quiring liberal culture, but one that would not stand rich, damp,
or close soil. On being removed to the greenhouse it grew very
fast, and produced three of its singular scapes of bloom. Up to
this time (December) it has shown no disposition to damp.

Anigozanthus Manglesii is a perennial herbaceous plant, the
flowers large and showy, and everywhere covered with feathery
hairs, some greenish, others a bright-red; the colour of the
perianth velvety rich-green, and altogether presenting an ap¬
pearance of a very striking and unique character. It remains
only to add, that Mr. Kinghorn anticipates that he shall be
able freely to propagate it by division of the roots, and hopes
in the course of next year to introduce it to the public, with
whom, we believe, it will be generally as much admired as it
was by those who saw it when it was exhibited at Kensington
Gore.

Plate 82.

PUCHSIAS BIANCA AND VOLUNTEER.

Fuchsia hybrid a, var .

There are few flowers which more strikingly exemplify the
changes which from time to time are produced by care and
cultivation, and indeed we may say sometimes by what seems
mere chance, than the Fuchsia, whose slender and drooping
branches, and graceful and elegant blooms, have combined to
make it a general favourite ; for, although perhaps not grown
so extensively in collections as some florists’ flowers, there are
few greenhouses in which some of the many varieties are not
cultivated with success.

Formerly only the dark varieties were known ; but a sport,
which we believe occurred with Mr. Cripps, of Tunbridge
Wells, many years ago, produced in Venus Victrix , the parent
of the varieties with white sepals and tube. In the meantime
the dark ones were gradually assuming the Turk’s-cap form,
which they now possess. Again, some few years ago, white
corollas made their appearance ; and latterly we have had
introduced some double ones, in which the corolla, instead of
being simple, is double. Advance in size has also been pro¬
gressive, and the substance of the flower greatly increased, so
that now little is left to be desired, and considerable difficulty
will be experienced in surpassing either the varieties now
figured, or those lately sent out, especially Minnie Banks ,
which, taken altogether, may be regarded as the finest of ail
the white-sepalled varieties.

We are fortunate in being close neighbours to the gentleman
to whom the fuchsia-loving world is indebted more than any
one else, for the great improvement which has taken place in
this flower, Edward Banks, Esq., of Sholden Lodge ; and it may
give some idea of the difficulty of raising new varieties, when we

say that he grows every year from four to rive thousand seed¬
lings, of which rarely more than eight or ten are reserved for
the notice of the public : nor is he contented with even these
the first year, as each variety is proved a second year before it
is sent out, and thus every pains is taken to prevent disap¬
pointment.

For many years Mr. Banks’s seedlings have passed into the
hands of Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Co., the well-known
nurserymen of Wellington Load, St. John’s Wood, London.
Besides the two now figured, they purpose this season sending
out Edith , Heine Blanche , Marginata , Signora , The Lord War¬
den. , Hcmiine, Mars , and Mentor , several of these being white-
sepaled varieties. To our kind friend Mr. Andrew Henderson
we are indebted for the following list of, according to his esti¬
mation, the best varieties grown:— -

Antagonist; white tube and sepals;
scarlet corolla.

Annie; white tube and sepals; rose-
coloured corolla.

Blade Prince; tube and sepals rich
dark-scarlet ; corolla dark-purple.

Comet ; scarlet tube and sepals : fine
variety.

Count Cavour ; large, open, mauve-
coloured corolla.

Lord Flcho ; scarlet sepals; violet-
blue corolla.

Fairest of the Fair ; sepals and tube
white ; rich violet corolla.

Garibaldi ; light-scarlet sepals ; vio¬
let-black corolla.

Guiding Star; white sepals; corolla
velvet- purple.

La Crinoline; crimson sepals; violet-
blue corolla.

Lord Macaulay ; broad scarlet sepals ;
deep-violet corolla.

Prince Imperial ; scarlet sepals; co¬
rolla violet.

Perseverance ; salmon sepals ; rosy-
lilac corolla.

Star of the Might ; rich carmine se¬
pals ; corolla violet-purple.

Schiller; sepals white; corolla rich
deep plum.

Souvenir de Chiswick; rosy-carmine
sepals ; violet-coloured corolla.

Of the two varieties figured in our Plate, Bianca (fig. 1) has
a glossy tube ; spreading, white, recurved sepals ; corolla rich
lake-crimson ; medium habit of growth. Volunteer (fig. 2) has
a short tube ; bright, light, carmine-red sepals, much recurved ;
corolla large, parachute form, of a lavender-blue tint, suffused
with violet : a distinct fine flower.

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Plate 83.

NEW EANCY PELARGONIUMS.

Pelargonium hybridum , var.

In a late number, when speaking of the classes into which the
Pelargonium had been arranged by florists, we alluded to what
are called Fancies as one of them. Why they should have been
so designated it is difficult to say, but they constitute a very
distinct class, and add considerably to the variety of the home-
stage and the exhibition-table.

There is something even in the growth and foliage of this
class which at once marks them as distinct. They are much more
compact, the leaves much smaller, and, we may add, they are
more delicate in constitution than the show and spotted kinds,
thriving better in a warmer house, and being impatient of
damp, both at the foliage and at the roots, hence it becomes
necessary to be particular not to overpot them ; abundant
drainage should be given, and a compost of a lighter and
more porous character should be used than that given to the
show varieties. During the dark winter months of November,
December, and January, water should be rather sparingly ap¬
plied. Attention to these rules will enable those who desire
to grow a few amongst their other kinds to overcome any dif¬
ficulties attendant on their growth.

Like all other florists’ flowers, there has been a gradual pro¬
gress towards perfection in them, in colour, size, and substance,
for some years past, and those who remember the varieties ex¬
hibited a few years ago, and compare them with the two beau¬
tiful kinds now figured, will at once perceive this; and although
it may be some time before we are enabled to see them exhi¬
bited in such size as the older varieties, yet we are confident
that they will ultimately replace many of those now esteemed
as favourite flowers.

Both TJndine and Emperor of Morocco were exhibited by Mr.
Charles Turner, of Slough, by whom they were raised, at the
June show of the Royal Botanic Society, Regent’s Park, and
were then awarded certificates.

Undine (fig. 1) is a large flower, of a beautiful rosy-lake
colour, darker in the centre of the two upper petals, the throat
pure white, and all the petals margined with an even edge of
white ; the substance of the flower is good, and the habit strong,
so that we have little doubt of its being, as described by its
raiser, a fines how flower. Emperor of Morocco (fig. 2) forms
a fine contrast, the colour being of an intense rich mulberry,
the lower petals being lighter towards the edge, and of a rich
rose-colour, all being evenly margined with rosy-lilac ; in this
flower also we have substance, a quality so much valued by
those who grow for exhibition. In fine, two more beautiful
varieties were never presented to the view of the amateur, than
those now so beautifully portrayed by Mr. Andrews.

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VARIETIES OE LABGE-FLOWEBING
CHRYSANTHEMUM.

Chrysanthemum * sinense .

The season of the year at which it flowers, the ease with
which it is cultivated, and the permanence of its bloom, —
whether on the plant or as cut flowers, — have all combined to
render the Chrysanthemum one of the most generally grown and
admired of florists’ flowers, for to such a rank, owing to the
care which has been bestowed on it for some years, it now
justly lays claim.

In the dreary month of November, when, some few years
ago, the very last thing that would have been thought of was
a flower-show, there are now many opportunities of witnessing
as pretty a display, of both growing plants and cut blooms, as;
at any season of the year (when one flower has to be depended
on), not only at the Royal Horticultural Society and the Crys¬
tal Palace, but at Kennington and Hackney, and other subur¬
ban places where exhibitions are held ; nay, in the very heart
of the great Metropolis, the frequenter of its most crowded
thoroughfare has only to turn out of Fleet Street into those
dreary regions sacred to the law, to find, under the fostering
care of Messrs. Broome and Dale, of the Middle and Inner
Temple Gardens, a collection in full vigour both of health and
bloom ; while the winter gardens of Mr. Salter of Hammer¬
smith, and Mr. Bird of Stoke Newington, the largest growers
of them in England, afford a real treat to those who are desi¬
rous of not only seeing old established favourites, but novelties
also.

It is to the former of these two gentlemen, Mr. Salter, for¬
merly of Versailles, but now of Hammersmith, that we are in-

# Mr. Beaton, in 1 Cottage Garden Dictionary,’ so places it : others refer
it to Pyrethrum.

debtecl for the far larger number of new varieties, as be not
only raises seedlings himself, but introduces those which are
produced by other growers, especially Mr. Smith,* of Guernsey,
whose flowers have reached a high state of excellence, and two
of whose most recent additions to the incurved class of large-
lowering Chrysanthemums , Mr. Andrews has placed together in
plate.

Sparkler (Smith), fig. 1, is a fine well-incurved flower, of
medium size, colour of a rich Indian red, the golden-yellow7
backs of the petals giving it a very beautiful appearance. It
wras commended by the Floral Committee, and although not so
large a flower as General Slade , we question whether it will not
prove to be one more suited to the prevailing taste. Carissima
(Smith), fig. 2, is a flower of first-rate properties, and as such
received a first-class certificate from the Floral Committee of
the Eoyal Horticultural Society. The petals are broad and
beautifully incurved, the colour a sulphury-white with lilac tint
at the edges, and streaked on the back of the petals with the
same colour. Mr. Salter has also some other fine varieties to
distribute in the spring, amongst which will be found General
Slade , just mentioned, Duchess of Wellington , Dr. Brock , Lord
Danelagh , Edith Dombrain , and Ion.

A flower so easily grown as the Chrysanthemum , hardly needs
any remark as to culture, but w7e may mention that the gardener
of our friend and neighbour, E. Banks, Esq., of Sholden Lodge,
grows them very compactly by placing three plants in an eight-
or ten-inch pot, and by supplying them liberally with guano-
water very fair-sized blooms, and in considerable quantities, are
obtained ; to those who do not grow for exhibition, it seems an
admirable plan.

* Mr. Smith is gardener to General Slade, the Lieutenant- Governor of
Guernsey.

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VARIETIES OE POMPONE CHRYSANTHEMUM.

Chrysanthemum sinense, vars .

It could hardly have been foreseen, when Mr. Fortune intro¬
duced his little “ Chusan Daisy,” that it would be the parent of
so numerous and beautiful a progeny as the varieties of “ Pom-
pones f ’ and it is only another instance to be added to those
very numerous ones already existing, of what the skill, perse¬
verance, and judgment of the Florists have effected.

The dwarfer and more compact character of the growth of
this class of Chrysanthemums has rendered them greater fa¬
vourites even than the larger varieties ; but it has at the same
time caused them to be the subjects of various styles of training,
which are about as ornamental as the Yews and Hollies cut
into various shapes, which we sometimes see in old-fashioned
gardens. Permitting themselves to be twisted and turned in
every direction, they have been trained as pyramids, balloons, or
with flat tops, like a table, until the character of the floAver has
been entirely lost. A better state of things has been inaugurated
during the past season, the Royal Horticultural Society having
offered prizes for the most naturally grown plants ; and although,
as in the case of all flowers intended for exhibition, a certain
amount of training is necessary, yet the character of the flower
has been preserved.

Their culture is excessively easy, as they strike readily ; and,
with a little care, grow very rapidly. We consider that the
better plan is, instead of shifting them some three or four times
during their period of growth, to place them at once from the
cutting-pot into the pots in which they are intended to bloom, —
about eleven inches in diameter. The compost used should be
moderately rich, but at the same time strong, and rather reten¬
tive of moisture, drought being very injurious to them ; they

may be treated, however, as soon as the dower-buds make their
appearance, to liberal supplies of guano-water, or any good
liquid manure. The plan to which we alluded last month, of
placing three cuttings in a pot, answers admirably for this class,
and saves a great deal of trouble in stopping. If grown singly,
they will require to be shortened frequently, in order to induce
more compactness of growth, — the last stopping not to be made
later than the beginning of August. In order to preserve them
in beauty for a more lengthened period, it is desirable to place
them in a house for blooming, — we have used a tiffany one for
this purpose, with favourable results.

The varieties now figured wTere exhibited by Mr. John Salter,
of the Versailles Nursery, Hammersmith, and will form, we
think, desirable additions to the class ; nor can we notice them
without drawing attention to the extreme care and minuteness of
detail which Mr. Andrews has bestowed on our figures. They are,
— Acts (fig. 1), a medium-sized flower, of a rich, sulphur-yellow,
slightly tinged with orange. Cajpella (fig. 2), beautiful reddish-
brown, very compact in its habit, and very free blooming ; and
Lucinda (fig. 3), a large-sized flower, mottled lilac ; the edges of
the petals being white, it has quite the appearance of an edged
flower. These, with some other varieties, will appear in the
list of novelties to be sent out by Mr. Salter in May next.

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Plate 86.

INDIAN CRESS “ECLIPSE.”

Tropceolum Lobbianum , var .

The modern style of gardening has led to the introduction
and extended use of many flowers which a few years ago we
should hardly have considered ever likely to occupy a promi¬
nent position in the flower-garden : amongst these are the vari¬
eties of Tropceolum or Indian Cress, the species called Lob¬
bianum having afforded three or four distinct strains , the dwarf
varieties of which are exceedingly useful for long borders, or in¬
deed for beds, as the frequenters of the Crystal Palace and
Loyal Horticultural Society’s gardens last summer must have
witnessed.

The variety which we have now the pleasure of placing be¬
fore our friends is one of an exceedingly interesting character,
and was raised by that veteran florist, Richard deadly, Esq., of
Stapleford, near Cambridge, one who has for many years held
a very high position as a raiser of seedling florists’ flowers;
many of his Auriculas, Carnations, Picotees, and Tulips, ranking
amongst the very best of their race, and we believe in the pre¬
sent instance he has raised another which will still further add
to his fame as a skilful and judicious hybridizer. We are in¬
debted to him for the following information: — “Eclipse was raised
from Elegans , fertilized by pollen from Brilliant. I raised a
large number of seedlings, but this flower was so superior to all
the others, although many were fine, that I destroyed them,
only retaining this, which was the ornament and pride of my
garden last autumn, being more brilliant than the best scarlet
Geraniums. The eye rested upon it as soon as you entered my
garden.* As a bedding Tropceolum , it is far beyond all others;
it is as dwarf in growth as any we have, and is a mass of bloom

* This we can certify to be always a blaze of brilliancy and beauty.

until destroyed by frost.” The compactness of growth and abun¬
dance of bloom has been well shown by our artist, but even his
able pencil cannot do full justice to the intense brilliancy of its
colour. We have to add only that it has passed into the hands
of Mr. Charles Turner, of the Itoyal Nursery, Slough, by whom
it will be distributed to the public this spring.

The culture o'f this race of Tropasolum is very simple. They
make very useful pot-plants for blooming in the conservatory or
greenhouse in winter, and when used as bedding plants grow
very rapidly ; it will, where great nicety as to the height of the
border is observed, be necessary to use the scissors in taking off
superfluous leaves or shoots, but in such dwarf kinds as Eclipse
this will be hardly necessary. Amongst other varieties useful for
this purpose, are Comte Cavour , Brilliant , and Tmperatrice Eu¬
genie. There are others also, but it will be better in purchasing
to state for what particular purpose they are needed, and any
respectable nurseryman will supply desirable sorts.

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Plate 87.

VARIETIES OE CINERARIA.

Cineraria hylrida , vars.

Amongst the earliest harbingers of the flower-season, enli¬
vening the dreary and dark days of December and January,
there are few flowers which are deservedly greater favourites or
more generally grown than the Cineraria , while they form very
valuable additions to the earlier flower-shows, especially to those
spring meetings which are now encouraged by the Royal Hor¬
ticultural and Royal Botanical Societies ; those who wish them
merely for decoration, without any reference to their properties
as florists’ flowers, can obtain a very nice supply of early bloom¬
ing plants from seed, while those who are more particular as to
these points, can propagate by offsets from year to year.

The Cineraria delights in a rich and open soil ; we have used
with considerable advantage a compost composed of equal parts
of loam, leaf mould, and well rotted cow manure, with an addi¬
tion of silver sand to keep it open. They grow very rapidly, and
it will be necessary as the plants make roots and fill the pots to
shift them into larger ones. They should be kept in a growing
state, free from attacks of frost, or sharp cutting winds, and
will, if thus treated, make large, handsome plants, with broad
and luxuriant leaves, before they show their flower-stems; as
these advance in height, they should, if large plants and a broad
head of bloom are required, be tied out to slender stakes, which
should be as little visible as possible ; but for ordinary purposes
this care will not be required. It should be borne in mind that
there is no flower which suffers more from the attacks of green
fly than this, and that therefore they should be carefully fumi¬
gated when there is the least sign of its appearance : the leaves
too are easily damaged, either by too much heat, or by being
bruised against other pots, and therefore care should be taken
in these particulars.

The varieties which we now figure are Miss Eyles (fig, 1) ancl
Maid of Astolat (fig. 2). The former of these has received several
first-class certificates, and is a very desirable variety, being very
dwarf and compact in habit, holding very large and broad flower-
heads ; the colour, a deep fine rose with white ring and rosy disk.
Maid of Astolat is a larger and bolder-looking flower, white,
carmine, purple edge, and rosy disk. Both are excellent in form,
though Miss Eyles is the more perfect of the two. It has been
impossible to represent more than a few pips of each sort, as the
Plate would otherwise be too crowded, but both kinds are ex¬
cessively free bloomers.

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Plate 88.

DAHLIA MRS. BUSH.

Dahlia saperjlua, var.

Although of late years many flowers have entered the lists
to compete as autumnal beauties with the noble and brilliant
Dahlia, — and although we are ourselves warm admirers of the
Gladiolus, the Hollyhock, and the Aster, yet we cannot displace
from her proud pre-eminence as the Queen of Autumn flowers
this long-established favourite, one of the newest and best of
the varieties of which we now figure under the name of Mrs.
Bush; and no large garden (for they are hardly suited for small
ones) should be considered complete without a collection of
them, which can be obtained at a very moderate cost.

The Dahlia is one of those flowers which require good soil,
and a liberal supply of manure ; and, as the branches are succu¬
lent and easily broken, they should have as sheltered a situa¬
tion as possible ; they should be planted out as soon as danger
from frost is over, the end of May or beginning of June, but
even then it will be safer to have some large empty pots to turn
over them at night. Abundance of room should be given, not less
than five feet each way. Tying should be carefully attended
to, first securing the plant to a central stake, with a broad piece
of bast, and the side branches tied out to three or four stakes
placed at equal distances from the central one, — superfluous
branches should be thinned out, and when the plants have attained
some considerable size, they should be well mulched with half-
rotted stable manure, and, if the weather be dry and sultry,
should be abundantly supplied with water. Where fine blooms
are required, it will be necessary to disbud, that is, to pinch off
some of the bloom-buds; some varieties require more of this than
others, but it will be generally found that the catalogues dis¬
tinguish those which require much or little disbudding. Where

they are grown for exhibition, various contrivances are used for
shading, etc.

Great perfection has been attained in the shape and general
contour of the Dahlia, and one has only to refer to the plates
of some twenty years back, to see how great the progress has
been ; in fact, so great is it that it is only some novelty in colour
that now commends itself to the taste of the floral world. This
Mrs. Bush possesses ; no flower of this soft peach hue has been
obtained since Widnall’s Queen, raised about 1838, which was very
inferior in shape and size. Mrs. Bush is a full-sized flower, the
plant growing from four to five feet high, and very robust ; it was
raised by Mr. Bush, of Bath, the raiser of Bobert Bruce , and has
been purchased by Mr. Turner, of Slough. It received a first-
class certificate from the Floral Committee of the Royal Horti¬
cultural Society. Messrs. Turner, of Slough, and Keynes, of
Salisbury, are the 'sources from whence the best Dahlias ema¬
nate, as they are not only raisers of seedlings themselves, but
obtain those of other raisers. Mr. Turner’s new flowers are, in
addition to Mrs. Bush , — Lord Derby (Pope), Chieftain (Holmes),
Model (Perry), Delicata (Perry), Una (Turner), Captain Harvey
(Turner), Cygnet (Turner), Bob Bidley (Turner), and Blondin
(Turner). Mr. Keynes’s are, — Black Prince ( Keynes), Countess
of Portsmouth (Rawlings), Donald Beaton (Dodds), Empress of
India (Rawlings), Goldfinch (Keynes), Imperial (Keynes), John
Harrison (Harrison), Lady Elcho (Dodds), Maria Carter (Keynes),
Minnie Dodds (Dodds), Maid of Bath (Hooper), Oscar (Addis),
Boyal Purple (Keynes), Sir J. Outram (Rawlings).

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Plate 89.

VARIETIES OE VERBENA.

Verbena Jtybrida , vars.

Few flowers occupy so prominent a position in the modern
style of gardening as the Verbena, the great variety of colour,
the dwarf yet free habit of growth, and the ease with which it
is multiplied, all conducing to its universal adoption for the
purpose of bedding and ribboning ; while the same properties
cause it to find a home in most of the smaller gardens of those
who exhibit any taste for flowers. But an observer will hardly
fail to notice that, for this purpose, those varieties are used
which are either seifs, that is, all of one shade of colour, or else
those which are shaded with deeper hues of the same tint ; for
flowers with the centre, of a different colour to the rest of the
petal make a contrast which effectually mars the intention of
the designer, who must be perfectly aw fait at the arrange¬
ment of colours.

But Verbenas are grown for other purposes : they make very
effective pot-plants ; and the blooms, when cut, form a pretty
variety in the various exhibitions of flowers both in the metro¬
polis and the country. Here what are called eyed flowers are
not only useful, but exceedingly ornamental ; and there is no
person who has been more successful in raising this kind of
flower than our friend Mr. Perry, of The Cedars, Castle Brom¬
wich, near Birmingham. Possessed with an ardent love for
flowers, and himself a most successful exhibitor, he has carried
on his hybridizing so carefully that his flowers have attained a
large size and great variety in colour, so that he rarely meets
with a competitor who can distance him.

To grow Verbenas for exhibition, it is necessary to plant
them out in a frame or pit, in some nice light and rich soil, to
peg them down as they make growth, and to carefully fumigate

from time to time, as they are very subject to the attack of
thrip and greenfly. The lights should be kept off in all fine
weather but put on during rain, giving, however, air at the
same time. In this state they will flourish very well, and
blooms can always be depended upon. This is not the case
when grown in the open air, as one shower of rain will com¬
pletely destroy the hopes of an exhibitor.

The varieties now figured are, Thackeray (fig. 1), a shaded
rosy purple, with large white eye and broad purple ring round
the eye, very distinct and showy ; Decorator (fig. 2), a brilliant
crimson with white eye, a fine blossom, and good in most
points ; and Blue Beauty , (fig. 3) a very deep blue, several shades
deeper than Mrs. Moore , with large pure white eye, and very
beautiful. They are in the hands of Mr. W. Bull, of Chelsea,
who proposes letting them out this spring, together with Anni-
hilator , Countess of Bradford , Countess of Aylesford , Cheerful ,
Loveliness , Queen of Prussia , Bapliael , Spark , The Palace , and
Unique , all these being of Mr. Perry’s raising.

While writing on new Verbenas, we cannot forbear alluding
to another variety, Foxhunter , a magnificent scarlet flower,
raised by our friend Mr. Millar, of Upway, near Dorchester,
which all regard as the finest Verbena of the year, and which
Mr. Low, of Clapton, intends introducing to the public next
May.

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Plate 90.

VARIETIES OP SHRUBBY SLIPPERWORT.

Calceolaria hybrida , vars.

In the November number of last year we figured (Plate 76)
two Calceolarias of the same character as the present ones, save
that they were self-coloured flowers, and we then made a pro¬
mise (which we now redeem) of, at an early opportunity, giving
figures of some of the spotted varieties raised by Mr. Burley,
who has acquired a well-merited reputation for the skill and
success with which he has followed out the cultivation of this
attractive class of flowers ; and as, with most hybridizers, he is
making continual progress, we may be prepared for seeing some
of the splendid markings of the herbaceous or annual kinds,
which have proved so difficult to keep, on these hardier shrubby
varieties.

There are no plants of easier growth than these Calceolarias ;
and certainly their showy character makes them desirable ac¬
cessions to the greenhouse or conservatory, especially during
that portion of the year when there is somewhat of a difficulty
in making them look gay, viz. during the months of August
and September. Mr. Burley informs us that the soil he uses is
of a rich open character, about equal portions of good yellow
loam, leaf-mould, and well-rotted manure, with a fair admixture
of silver-sand. The cooler they are kept, too, he says, the better,
provided that they are kept free of frost. As the sun attains
power they should be frequently syringed and shaded from the
influence of its mid-day rays ; and, above all, he urges the neces¬
sity of steadily making war upon the greenfly, which very soon
injures its succulent foliage. He says, 44 Whenever you see
one , fumigate ; my plan is to do so on two or three successive
nights, as I believe this is more effectual than giving a very
strong dose at once.”

The varieties now figured are to be let out during the present
spring, amongst some other excellent ones, which Mr. Burley
has been fortunate in raising. Monarch (fig. 1) is a rich orange-
coloured flower, with crimson blotches rather than spots, the
throat being a lighter shade of the same colour as the spots :
it is a flower of large size and excellent shape. Model (fig. 2)
is a bright primrose, pitted all over with reddish spots, and was
one of the six which received the silver-gilt medal at the Royal
Botanic Society’s Exhibition in the Regent’s Park last year. It
is, perhaps, not so attractive as the former flower, but its habit
is equally good, and it will form a pretty addition to this fa¬
vourite tribe.

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Viric&nt Ba-oaks, Imp .

J. Andrews, deL.etlith..

Plate 91.

BOXJBLE-FLOWEBEB BEAUTIFUL CLARKIA.

Clarhia pulchella , flore pleno.

However much Botanists may admire single flowers, and
consider double varieties as interfering with the simplicity of
nature, there can be but very little question that to the flower-
growing and flower-loving public the latter have greater
charms ; and when they have been originated, the single
kinds very soon fall into the background ; the Double Zinnia
will, ere long, completely drive out, we imagine, its single con¬
gener ; and so, should the Double Clarhia , which we now figure,
become permanently fixed, the other varieties of pulchella will
be little cared for.

Our present figure was drawn by Mr. Andrews from the
plant as it was grown by the Messrs. Carter, of Holborn, at
their Nursery, Forest Hill ; it was originated there, about eight
years ago, and their object has been to fix the double character
which it then presented. It sometimes happens that a flower
which promises a move in that direction afterwards disappoints
its owner, and, with that constant tendency to deteriorate or,
if it is so willed, of running back to its original type, which
characterizes all garden flowers, again becomes a single flower ;
it was not, therefore, until there seemed every probability of
its m aintaining its character, that they ventured on exhibiting it ;
this they did at the Floral Committee of the Boyal Horticul¬
tural Society in last June, when it was awarded a first-class
certificate, and is thus described in their Journal of Pro¬
ceedings : — “ This was a handsome variety of the deep rosy
colour of the better forms of this well-known species, but
having three or four whorls of petals developed as to form a
tolerable full double flower. It was a very showy plant and
wras awarded a first-class certificate” — a proof of the estimation

in which it was held, as annuals rarely receive any higher
award than a label of commendation.

There is no more difficulty in the cultivation of this double
variety of ClarJcia than in that of the single ones ; and there is
hardly any race of annuals more easy of culture than they
are ; they will thrive in any tolerably good garden soil, and, if
the plants are thinned out so as to leave abundance of room
for growth, they will proportionably reward the care bestowed
on them. They are effective and ornamental plants ; and we
doubt not the variety now figured will prove its claim to be
so considered during the coming season.

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J. Andrews, del . etlith. .

VmcentBroofe,Irxip .

Plate 92.

VARIETIES OE DOUBLE ZINNIA.

Zinnia elegans,flore pleno.

There has not been an annual introduced for many years
into this country which has received such universal recog¬
nition, as an excellent and useful addition to our gardens, as
the Double Zinnia; and, although we published a plate of
them in our last volume (Plate 33), we make no apology for
bringing before our subscribers another group from the pencil
of Mr. Andrews, the opportunity of so doing having been
afforded us by the kindness of the eminent London seedsmen,
Messrs. Carter & Co. of Holborn.

Our reason for so doing is, that there are evidently two
distinct strains of them in the country, and one, in our opinion,
very much inferior to the other in every quality ; in one the
flower is comparatively shallow, partaking more of the shape
of the old single Zinnia, without much regularity in the dis¬
position of the petals ; in the other it is of very great depth,
exceeding, in some cases, three inches (as in some specimens
which we saw in the garden of our friend and neighbour,
Mr. Edward Banks, of Sholden*), the petals regularly reflex¬
ing, somewhat in the manner of some of the newly-introduced
Chrysanthemum-flowered Asters, and disposed very regularly and
closely, so as to give the appearance of a thoroughly double
flower. It is the latter variety which we have figured ; and, al¬
though at present absolute certainty cannot be obtained as to
every individual seed coming true to character, yet, as some
seedsmen advertise them as doing so in the ratio of 80 and 90
per cent., and as the gentleman who is styled the “ Sardinian
Correspondent ” of Messrs. Barr & Sugden announces twenty-
four varieties, we have very little doubt but that in a year or

* This seed was obtained from Mr. W. Thompson, of Ipswich.

two we shall be as certain of the seed as we are now of the
varieties of German and French Asteis.

The cultivation of the Double Zinnias differs but little, if at
all, from that of the single varieties ; the seed should be sown,
at the latter end of March or early in April, in either a hot¬
bed or stove, in pans ; the soil used should be light and friable,
and made quite smooth before sowing, When sown, the seeds
should be covered lightly with soil, and gently syringed ; as
soon as they are above ground, let them be watered gently,
and, when they are strong enough, transplanted into small
pots, either placing three round the edge or else potting
singly into large sixties ; when all danger of frost is over, they
may be planted out : the soil should be rich and friable, although
any good garden soil will answer. They will require no further
attention, save to watch against the depredations of snails and
slugs, and they will continue to bloom profusely all the sum¬
mer, the individual blooms remaining a very long time on the
plant, as we have known them to continue in perfection for
nearly three weeks; they will, as they are strong-growing, be
benefited by the application of a little liquid manure, applied
occasionally during the blooming period.

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J.Andrevfs,dd_ etlith..

"\lpncent. .Brooks. Ttnp.

Plate 93.

NEW STARRED CONVOLVULUS.

Convolvulus cantabricus , stellcitus novus .

The requirements of modem gardening are of a very ex¬
acting character. Not only must conservatories and parterres
look gay, or forced flowers during the dull and wintry months
add their beauty to the drawing-room or boudoir, but hanging
baskets and vases must be filled with suitable plants, which
shall not merely fill them, but trail over their sides, and so
add elegance to their appearance, the introduction of the hang¬
ing baskets in the Crystal Palace having led to their very general
adoption.

The plant which we now figure, is one wTe think likely to be
useful for this purpose. Last season, a Blue Convolvulus ( mauri -
tanicus) was introduced by Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, of
the Wellington Road Nursery, and figured by them in their 4 Il¬
lustrated Bouquet and we imagine that the present will be a
fitting adjunct to it, as it possesses the same free flowering pro¬
perties and the same trailing habit. It has been introduced
by Messrs. Barr and Sugden, of King^ Street, Covent Garden,
who received it from the gentleman who has been known for
some time as the 44 Sardinian Correspondent ” of some of the
London seedsmen, (albeit, since the cession of Savoy and Nice
to France, he is now a French correspondent) ; living in the
neighbourhood of Nice, in a climate admirably adapted for the
saving of seed, he grows annuals very extensively, and, having
had long experience in horticulture, he is continually hybri¬
dizing, and has thus obtained some valuable varieties.

There are few persons, who have ever grown annuals, who
have not grown some of the many varieties of Convolvulus ;
(one of the easiest of culture of the vast number of seeds usually
presented to the consideration of the flower-loving public every
year) ; and we have only to say of this new variety, that it is

quite as easy of cultivation as any of the older sorts. It will be
noticed, that its chief peculiarity is the very distinct double star
which the white markings form in the flowers ; and when the
plant is large and covered with bloom, we do not doubt it will
make a pleasing addition to the hanging-basket, either in the
verandah or conservatory. Mr. Andrews has represented it in
such a position, in order to show the charming effect that will
be produced by it when so used ; but its raiser informed us
that he had also grown it as an out-door annual for ribboning,
and that it is very effective in such situations.

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Plate 94.

VARIETIES OE HYBRID PENSTEMON.

Penstemon hybriduw , vars.

The class of flowers, of which we now figure two very beau¬
tiful examples, is one which we do not think has received the
amount of attention that it deserves ; and, as the varieties have
been greatly improved of late years, we shall be glad if our
bringing them before our subscribers may tend to their in¬
creased cultivation, especially as they are not by any means
difficult of cultivation, and are easily propagated ; two desirable
properties in an age busy in horticulture, as well as in every¬
thing else.

The varieties which we now figure* come, as many of our
novelties in florists’ flowers do, from over the border, and were
raised by Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing, of Edinburgh, and
Stanstead Park, Forest Hill ; and form two of a collection
they are bringing out this season : others, in the same set, are
Alexander Cramb , Azure a elegans , Baroness Sempill , Donald
Beaton , Firefly , Monarch , Mrs. Brooks , Mrs. Pollock, Miss Cons-
lin , Peter Barr , Bobert Dewar , Scarlet Gem , and W. P. Laird.

We are hopeful that not only increased attention may be
given to them, but that hybridizers may have now an oppor¬
tunity of adding considerably to their beauty, as two new species
of Penstemon have been introduced during the last season, by
Messrs. Low and Son, of Clapton. They are from California ;
one, somewhat sweet-scented and yellow, called Lobbianus ;

# Fig. 1. Dr. Hogg: bright glowing scarlet, throat pure white, large and
well expanded, large gloxinia-like flowers ; warranted by the raisers as the
best flower in its class.

Fig. 2. Violacea : superb rich dark violet, with white throat, very clear
and distinct.

and the other spectabilis * From their habitat, they are both
likely to be hardy ; and we should think, that it would be well
worth the consideration of those interested in the raising of
seedlings, whether the infusion of this new blood would not
very materially improve the older varieties; just as Mr. Beaton
considers the Mimidus cupreus , figured by us (Plate TO), may
introduce a great improvement into that flower.

As an herbaceous plant, the Pentstemon is easily propagated,
either by division of the roots or by cuttings ; the former is the
easier method, and may be done at any time in the early part
of the spring ; but the best and most shapely plants are to be
obtained from cuttings, which should be taken off in February
or March, and stuck in gentle heat, potted off as soon as rooted,
and then gradually brought into a cooler atmosphere. They
may be planted out in May in any ordinary garden soil, to which
a liberal quantity of well-rotted manure has been added, and will
bloom continuously during the summer ; in a word, their culti¬
vation is very similar to that of the Phlox, and their flowers are
more permanent than in that beautiful class.

#

Figured in Bot. Mag., t. 5200.

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J.&n&v&m, del. etliib..

Plate 95.

CAMELLIA MASTER* ROSEA.

Camellia Japonica , var.

Who does not admire the Camellia 1 Has any one ever seen
the snow-white blossoms of some varieties, the brilliant colours
and symmetrical form of others, and the glossy foliage of the
plants, and not said, 44 Plow beautiful”! Who would think a bou¬
quet, when they are in bloom, complete without one ! And if
they needed ^any special interest, shall we, as loyal subjects,
readily forget that a white Camellia formed the centre of that
last tribute of affection which our Koyal Mistress sent to he
laid on the coffin of her husband! — no mere 44 trapping of woe,”
but the expression of sincere and devoted love.

In a visit we paid last autumn to Angers, in France, we visited,
amongst other places, the Nursery of M. Cachet, where Ca¬
mellias are grown in greater perfection than it has ever been our
lot to witness ; of course great advantages of climate and situa¬
tion were enjoyed by him, but the beauty and health of his
plants clearly showed that skill and intelligence had also been
brought to bear. Amongst the many varieties cultivated by him,
that which he considered in every respect the most desirable is
the one we now figure, Master Rosea ; a very large portion of
his stock of it was purchased by our friend and fellow-traveller,
Mr. John Standish, of Bagshot, and from a bloom of one of these
plants a drawing was made by Mr. Andrews ; it is a large, beau¬
tifully-shaped flower, with well-rounded petals, and very full ;
the petals stiff and not reflexing ; the colour a beautiful veined
rose ; the habit of the plant good ; foliage large, and of a rich
glossy-green, and indeed it possesses in every respect the pro¬
perties of a first-rate Camellia ; under this name, at any rate,

* So written in the Augers Catalogues. Maester is, however, suggested as
the right orthography.

it is, we believe, unknown to English growers, as on inquiry from
some of the largest Camellia-growers, we could not find that
they had any acquaintance with it, but we saw in a collection
exhibited by Mr. William Paul, of the Nurseries, Waltham
Cross, at a late Meeting of the Floral Committee, a variety
called Elatior , which seems to approach very near to it.

The cultivation of the Camellia is much more simple than
is generally supposed : it delights in a mixture of good turfy
loam and peat, and will even bear a few degrees of frost with¬
out injury; when the plants have bloomed, it will be better (if
such a convenience is at hand), to place them in a moist stove,
where they can be started into growth and well syringed, and
after this they must be gradually hardened, off until they can
bear the open air, when they may be placed out of doors in a
shady place, but not under the dip of trees, and on tiles or slates,
to prevent the entrance of worms into the pot ; when they are
brought into the house in the autumn, care should be taken
that they do not suffer from either excess or lack of moisture,
as, although they will not show it by drooping, as some flowers,
yet the loss of the flower-buds will ultimately ensue, and this
of course every grower would desire to avoid.

Besides the above beautiful variety, we can confidently re¬
commend, Princesse Bacciochi , striped ; Montaroni , white; irnbri-
cata, crimson \jimbriata, white, beautifully fringed ; Sacco Vera ,
veined rose ; Sarah Frost , the most beautifully shaped Camellia
grown ; Puchesse de Bern , splendid white ; and Queen of Beau¬
ties ,j striped quite new7.

Plate 96.

VERSCHAEPPELT’S COLEUS.

Coleus Verschaeffeltii .

We think that we shall be doing good service to our subscri¬
bers if from time to time we figure, not merely such plants as
are likely to be favourites, as improvements in the many exist¬
ing varieties of florist’s and garden dowers, but also such as
either have been passed by, owing to some supposed difficulty
of culture which has been overcome, or such as, from the beauty
of their foliage, are likely to form ornamental plants for the
decoration of the conservatory or the flower-garden . We have
in the former class, already figured, Disci grandrfiora and Ani-
gozanthus Manglesii, and we now in the latter class bring Coleus
Verschaeffeltii before our friends.

This species of Coleus , which bears the name of M. Ver-
schaeffelt, the eminent Belgian Nurseryman, was introduced to
this country by Mr. William Bull, of King’s Road, Chelsea, and
was largely exhibited by him during last season at the various
horticultural exhibitions in the metropolis, where it attracted a
considerable degree of attention ; and it strikes us as being a
very manageable plant, capable of being grown to a large size
for indoor decoration, and probably in warm situations, adding
a pleasing change to the ribbon system of gardening ; brighter
in colour than Perilla Nanlcinensis , which has been so extensively
used during the past few years, it will probably supplant that,
when it comes to be more extensively known and reduced in
price, and the ease with which it is cultivated will soon effect
this.*

* In stating this, we are aware there are some authorities against us, but it
was used in this way very extensively by M. Terschaefielt last summer in Bel¬
gium, and should we have anything of a fine season it will be well tested, as
the Eoval Horticultural Society is about to try it.

Coleus Verschacffeltii is a native of Java, and therefore re¬
quires, during the winter, a warm greenhouse; during the summer
it will succeed under almost any treatment. The foliage is ele¬
gant in shape, and on the young plants deep crimson margined
with bright green, but as the plants attain age and size the
green passes away, and the entire leaf is a rich glowing crimson ;
in this condition they are very beautiful, having a velvety ap¬
pearance, and from the ease with which it is grown we have
no doubt it will be a favourite with those who value decorative
plants. The drawing is about one-fourth of the natural size,
but even this will be probably beneath the real size of it, as,
when more favourably grown, they will attain even larger
dimensions.

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Plate 97.

AMARYLLIS UNIQUE.

Amaryllis hybrida , varj

The whole tribe of Amaryllids, including Hippeastrum,
Nerine, Yallotta, Brunsvigia, etc., contains flowering bulbs of
great beauty : some of them, as A. Belladonna , being perfectly
hardy ; others, as Yallotta purpurea (a charming and most
easily-grown species), belonging to the greenhouse ; while
others, as the one now figured, although sometimes called Stove
Amaryllids, succeed best, as we were informed by Mr. B. S.
Williams, the raiser of Amaryllis Unique , in an intermediate
house. They are very largely used in Paris for the decora¬
tion of houses in spring ; when at Messrs. Truffauts’, of Ver¬
sailles, in October last, we saw large pits, containing several
thousand bulbs, in as many as three hundred varieties.

No one has, perhaps, been more successful in the treatment of
Cape bulbs than Mr. Charles Leach, King’s Load, Clapliam;
when visiting him during the present month, we saw some
magnificent specimens of this tribe in the height of vigour.
Brunsvigia Josephine?, which used to be considered an impos¬
sible plant, had immense leaves upon it, and promised well for
bloom. This splendid species he flowers in the open air in
summer, where it makes a most magnificent appearance ; and
he informed us that he had not given to any of this tribe so
much heat as has been ordinarily adopted, only giving them
a little when first showing flower, or leaf, and soon afterwards
removing them to the greenhouse. The soil in which they
best succeed is one composed of light sandy loam, leaf-mould,
and rotted manure, in nearly equal quantities.

Amaryllis Unique wTas exhibited by Mr. B. S. Williams, of
Paradise Nursery, Seven Sisters Road, Hollowray, at the Hya¬
cinth and Camellia Show of the Royal Horticultural Society,

# Described by the raiser as a seedling of A. Akermanni 'pulcherrima .

on the 19th March, when it was awarded a first-class certificate
by the Floral Sub-Committee, for its general merits. It will be
seen at once to be a very handsome variety of extra fine form,
the petals being very broad, and preventing it from having
that ragged and open appearance that those exhibited gene¬
rally have. The colour is a deep, brilliant scarlet, the centre
of the petals being shaded with black, and the throat having
white markings. Altogether it is a very lovely variety, and
well deserving the award which it received.

We have been favoured by Mr. Williams with the following
notes : — “ The evergreen sections require to be kept continually
growing, and regularly watering throughout the season, namely,
Amaryllis aulica , Amaryllis sujperha , longi folia, and reticulata ;
the rest, I believe, are better for a season of rest. First, I sup¬
pose to start by having good dry bulbs fit for flowering : they
should be placed in a nice light part of the house, and gra¬
dually begin with water, say, a little every two or three days,
until the leaf and flower begin to appear ; after that the water
should increase with the growth of the plant ; but as soon as
the spike is about six inches long water should be given very
liberally, as the perfection of the dower entirely depends upon
that. After the plants have done flowering they should be
re-potted (if required) and have a more moist heat, to mature
the bulbs for another season. After that, allow them to gra¬
dually go off to rest by withholding water from them. I had
almost forgotten to mention that after the bulbs are dried off
they should be placed in some dry back part of a cool house —
under the stage, or any similar place will do — until required
for starting again. The soil I use for growing them is two
parts of Epping loam, one ditto leaf-mould, one ditto rotten
manure, with a good sprinkling of sand. In potting, the soil
should be pressed firmly in the pots, leaving the bulb about
half covered.”

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Plate 98.

HYACINTH DUC HE MALAKOEF.

Hyacinthus orientalise var.

The liberal prizes offered by the Eoyal Horticultural and
Poyal Botanic Societies for Spring flowers had the effect this
year of bringing together a larger number of Hyacinths of
first-rate character than the dower-loving public have ever had
an opportunity of seeing before ; while the large collections
contributed by Mr. Cutbush, of Highgate, and Mr. W. Paul, of
Cheshunt, contained all the new varieties which the skill of
the Hutch florists (stimulated by the desire for novelty evi¬
denced in the country) has lately brought into notice. Amongst
these, there was no flower that received a larger share of praise
than the one now figured, Due de MalaJcoff.

One thing must have not a little surprised visitors, that the
single varieties were exhibited in so much larger proportion
than the double ones, and that they formed also by far the
finer spikes of bloom; indeed, for exhibition purposes, they
are the only ones on which dependence can be placed, and we
think that private growers, who merely desire to ornament
their conservatory or sitting-rooms, would find that they are
much more reliable.

The culture of the Hyacinth for ordinary purposes is of the
most simple character. When grown in pots, the soil used
should be very rich, light, containing a large proportion of
well-rotted manure ; and when first planted, the pots should
be plunged in sand, covering them about three inches ; root-
growth will be thus encouraged. When the shoot is about two
inches long they should be taken out, and gradually exposed
to the light, receiving a large quantity of water, and indeed, if
great size is desired, supplied also with liquid manure. When
grown for exhibition, a more liberal treatment still will be
necessary.

Instead, however, of giving detailed directions for cultiva¬
tion, which Mr. Cutbush himself has supplied to former num¬
bers of this Magazine, we prefer adding short notes of some of
those that most struck our fancy at Kensington. Heine cles
Jacinthes is a fine deep red, deeper than Lina , which is itself a
very fine flower. Pelissier is another fine shaded flower of the
same colour. Macaulay is another excellent red. Madame

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Van der Hoop is a lovely pure white, with large bells. The
same may be said of Mont Blanc , Queen of the Netherlands ,
and Grandeur a Merveille . Paix de V Europe was also another
flower of great beauty. Then there were, Haydn , a violet, ma¬
genta-coloured flower, very bright, and striking ; Ida , a clear
canary colour ; Mrs. Beecher Stowe , large and fine with pink
bells ; Charles Pickens , shaded porcelain blue ; General Have -
lock , very dark bluish black ; Koh-i-noor, salmon red, new and
very fine; and Hue de Malakoff \ the subject of our Plate,
a very striking flower, nankeen -yellow ground, with broad
stripes of crimson in each petal. Many of these are high-
priced varieties, single bulbs selling at a guinea each, while
others are very moderate, the more expensive kinds being
mainly purchased by those who compete for prizes.

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^Vinceivt ^Brooks; Trap .

Plate 99.

VARIETIES OE SHOW PELARGONIUM.

Pelargonium hybridum , vars.

Within a period of little more than twelve months three
of the most distiguished amateur raisers of seedling Pelargo¬
niums have been taken from amongst us,* leaving Mr. Hoyle,
of Reading, the raiser of those now figured, almost alone — al¬
though we have hopes that Mr. Millar, of Upway, the raiser of
Foxhunter Verbena, from what we saw of his preparations last
autumn, may ere long occupy a foremost place ; for, albeit that
we have arrived at such a pitch of perfection that improvement
becomes most difficult, yet so capricious are these garden hy¬
brids that it is impossible to tell what new strain may be hit
upon ; new colours or markings, or even increased size may yet*
be attained.

Mr. Hoyle’s flowers have for many years obtained (we may
safely say) the first position among Pelargonium growers, a fact
which is sufficiently attested by the large number of them that
appear in the collections shown for competition at the various
metropolitan shows ; the most striking testimony to that being,
that Mr. Foster, who was himself a most successful raiser, al¬
ways exhibited a much larger proportion of Mr. Hoyle’s flowers
than his own : in size, smoothness of petal, substance, and shape
they are in our opinion far superior to the flowers of other
raisers.

So much has been said at various times in the 4 Floral Maga-

* Edward Beck, of Isleworth ; the Eev. Bichard Garth, of Earnham ; and
E. Eoster, Esq., of Clewer Manor. We believe that Mr. Walter Beck
will not allow the Worton Cottage strain to be lost. Mr. Garth had long
ceased to raise new flowers, though he was one of the first to give an impetus
to the great improvement that has taken place in this beautiful flower.

zine with regard to the culture of this favourite flower, that we
deem it hardly necessary to add anything more on the subject.
We happened this day to receive a visit from the gardener of a
friend at Tunbridge Wells,' * who detailed to us a method of
treatment which he has found to be entirely successful, but
which completely alters the plan adopted by growers ; we hope
to see ere long the results of it, about which he was very
sanguine, and shall at some future time be enabled to refer
to it.

In order to show the varieties to advantage, and to figure a
larger number, we have preferred giving one pip of each to
crowding the plate. In Celeste (Fig. I) we have an entirely
new shade of colour, the lower petals being of a rich orange-
scarlet, the upper petals deep maroon, with a bright scarlet
margin and a clear white centre ; altogether a very novel and
striking flower. Mrs. Hoyle (Fig. 2) is a fine light flower, the
lower petals violet-rose, upper petals same colour, shaded with
red, with a small black spot, and it is a peculiarly soft-looking
flower of good substance and fine quality ; both of these received
first-class certificates from the Royal Botanic Society. Princetta
(Fig. 3) is a very beautiful dark flower, the upper petals glossy-
black, with a fiery-crimson margin, lower petals heavily pen¬
cilled with dark-red and rose, centre of the flower clear white,
very smooth and beautiful, and altogether a most pleasing
flower ; in fact, we do not consider Mr. Hoyle to have overrated
these flowers when he said they were among the best he has
ever raised.

* The Bev. George Goldney, an enthusiastic florist.

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Plate 100.

VARIETIES OE EPACRIS.

Epacris Jiyhrida.

Amongst the various greenhouse plants which tend to en¬
liven the early spring months, there are none on which more
dependence can be placed, and which are more useful, than the
Epacris ; hearing some similarity in appearance to the Ericas
they are of much easier culture, and, whether for cutting for
bouquets or ornamenting the stages of the greenhouse, are very
desirable plants.

Finding that they seeded easily, that busy tribe (which, like
the bee, will let no dower alone) the florists, have essayed their
hand at hybridizing them, and the result has been the produc¬
tion of many beautiful varieties ; and thus have they succeeded
in introducing confusion to another race of plants, to the infinite
horror of botanists, wTho consider that “ we have a great deal to
answer for.” * The late Mr. W. H. Storey was a most successful
raiser of them, and three of his varieties, which were sent out
by Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Co., of the Wellington Road
Nursery, this spring, are represented in the plate. They are,
Fireball (Fig. 1), the buds of a brilliant crimson, opening as
the flower expands, into a rich red ; it blooms in long and close
racemes. Butterfly (Fig. 2) is one of the parti-coloured varieties,
the tubes being white and the base a light-rose ; it is described
as being free, and being also a late bloomer. Exquisite (Fig.
3) is a beautiful bright rosy-pink colour, the lobes of the tube
being of a light blush, the individual flowers are large and
stout. All these varieties, together with some others of the same
strain, are effective, from the closeness with which the flower-
buds are set upon the plants.

# An expression used to us the other day by one who has enriched our
gardens with the botanical treasares of China and Japan.

There is no difficulty in the culture of this tribe of plants ;
they succeed best in fine fibrous peat, and should be repotted
when the blooming season is over, which will generally be in
the month of April, although some kinds bloom later than
others ; care should be taken that the ball is thoroughly moist
before the repotting takes place, as more plants die from neg¬
lect of this, both in Epacris and Heaths, than probably from
any other cause. They should be kept tolerably close for a few
days, and then, if the weather be favourable, they may be
placed out of doors for the summer months ; we prefer placing
them under the shade of tiffany to exposing them to the full
influence of the weather, as the hair-like roots are apt to get
injured when they reach the side of the pots, and care should
be taken that they stand on a good layer of coal-ashes so as to
prevent the entrance of worms into the pots, which disturb the
drainage and do otherwise great injury; the knife may freely
be used, to shorten the long shoots which some kinds are apt
to throw up and thereby spoil the symmetry of the plants.

Plate 101.

GERANIUM MRS. POLLOCK.

Pelargonium zonale , var.

While the skill and diligence of hybridizers have been re¬
warded in the section of show Pelargoniums with such flowers
as we figured in our last number, another division of the same
family, the zonate, or horse-shoe-leaved ones, has produced a
number of varieties, which are year by year becoming more
striking in the markings of their foliage. One of the more
recent examples of these Mr. Andrews has faithfully portrayed
in our plate.

We had the other day an opportunity of examining a large
number of plants of three varieties in this section, at Messrs.
E. G. Henderson and Son’s, Wellington Road Nursery, viz. Mrs.
PollocJc , Sunset , and Lucy Grieve (the latter not being as yet
sent out), and we are inclined to think that of the two former,
Mrs. Pollock will be found to be the most generally useful ;
its habit is more robust than Sunset, and it appears to be of a
different race ; and in this opinion we were strengthened by
that of our friend Mr. Andrew Henderson : the lobes of the
leaves are not so deeply cut, there is moreover a difference
in the shade of green, and the whole surface of the foliage is
hairy, while in Sunset it is smooth or nearly so ; there is also
a difference in the flower, those of Mrs. Pollock being of a
much deeper scarlet. Lucy Grieve seems to excel, in brilliancy
of marking, either of the varieties named ; probably during the
present season an opportunity will be afforded the floral world
of judging both of its real and comparative merits. Nor are
these the only novelties that are possessed by the enterprising
firm; we saw, amongst a number of seedlings, some golden¬
leaved ones from which the green had entirely vanished, and a
broad dark zone was distinctly marked.

Of the really beautiful and striking appearance of such a
plant as Mrs. Pollock we do not think there can be a second
opinion, and when it becomes more plentiful, wre are certain
that it will be very popular, especially for pot culture ; for al¬
though last year it retained, Mr. Henderson informed us, its
brilliant markings out-of-doors, yet in a wet summer we should
be almost afraid of its doing so. None of the zoned varieties
of the silver-edged section certainly retain their peculiar tints
in the open air ; we have grown nearly all of them, such as
Fontainebleau , Picturatum , Burning Bush , and have always
found that the bright pink or crimson zone disappeared in such
situations.

We do not think it necessary, with so beautiful and accurate
a portrait as that in our Plate, to give any lengthened descrip¬
tion of Mrs. Pollock , and shall merely add, that the most desi¬
rable varieties in the silver-edged section, containing the pink
zone, are in our opinion Picturatum , Hotel de Cluny , Burning
Bush, Attraction , and Fontainebleau ; and that in the cultivation
of all these varieties, it will be found desirable to be more care¬
ful of drainage and to use lighter soil than in the ordinary
kinds of horse-shoe foliaged Geraniums.

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Plate 102.

DOUBLE-FLOWERED CHINESE PRIMROSE.

Primula preenitens ffimbriata fiore pleno) , vars.

There is hardly any flower more generally useful for the
early spring decoration of greenhouses, and for indoor purposes
generally, than the Chinese Primrose ; seeding freely, easy of
cultivation, and blooming for a lengthened period, resisting at
the same time those influences of dust and close confinement
so prejudicial to many plants, it possesses qualifications which
make it so general a favourite that any improvement in its
general aspect will be hailed with pleasure by all lovers of
plants, and such improvement we believe the subjects of our
present plate present.

In our last volume we figured some varieties which had been
introduced by various growers, amongst them a semidouble
one, exhibited by Mr. Charles Turner, of Slough ; since then
two semidouble ones, which were said to come true from seed,
and called nivea plena and rubella plena , have been introduced
by Mr. William Bull, of Chelsea, from the Continent ; but
these are all excelled, in our opinion, by the very desirable
varieties figured in our plate, which were exhibited by Messrs.
F. and A. Smith, the eminent nurserymen of Dulwich, and
were greatly admired at the Exhibition of the Boyal Horticul¬
tural Society in April last, when the red-flowered variety re¬
ceived a first-class certificate from the Floral Committee. In
delicata we have a delicate flesh-coloured flower (white on first
opening), and very double, the petals being deeply fringed and
of large size ; while in rubra grandifiora we have a flower,
equally good in character, but of a deep-red colour : unlike the
old double Chinese Primrose, which was always difficult to
keep (owing to its delicacy of constitution), these varieties are
robust, and come true from seed, Messrs. Smith having shown
several seedling plants exactly alike to confirm their statement.

The same gentlemen also exhibited an exceedingly dwarf variety,
called the Fairy , also said to come true from seed ; and, when
we also bear in mind that the new fern-foliaged ones, exhibited
by Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, possess the same quality,
may we not reasonably infer that still greater novelties may be
in store for us]

In sow ing the seed of the Chinese Primroses, reference will
of necessity be made as to the period w7hen they are desired for
blooming ; those who require them early will sow in the months
of May and June, while for later-blooming plants, the months
of August and September will be sufficiently early. As soon as
the seedling plants are large enough to handle, they should be
pricked off into small pots separately, and kept in a warm por¬
tion of the greenhouse ; they will soon make growth, and as
they increase in size should be shifted into larger pots, using a
light and rich soil of which leaf-mould forms a large portion,
and with careful attention to watering, will give a succession of
bloom during the dreariest months of the year.

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Plate 103.

ELEGANT NEMOPHILA.

Nemophila discoidalis , elegans.

We are indebted to the kindness of Messrs. Charlewood and
Cummins, of Covent Garden, for the opportunity of figuring this
very beautiful variety of Nemophila , which was exhibited by
them at a meeting of the Floral Committee last year, when it
received a label of commendation, as an annual worthy of
general cultivation.

All the individuals of this family are favourites, and there is
probably more of the pretty little blue Nemophila insignis sown
than of any other annual, with the exception of Mignonette ;
and, as they are perfectly hardy, they can be sown in the au¬
tumn to stand during the winter, when they come into bloom
very early, and can be removed before the bedding plants are
put out ; in pots, too, on the front shelf of a greenhouse, they
make nice flowering plants during winter, N. maculata being
especially desirable for this purpose. The variety of N. cito-
maria which we figured in our last volume is a pretty addition
to the garden varieties of this family, and so, we think it will
be admitted, is the one we now figure.

We are informed by Mr. Cummins, that N discoidalis elegans
was first observed by their gardener about three years ago, in a
bed of discoidalis , and that upon being consulted by him he
thought it worth while to select it as a distinct variety ; since
then it has been grown separately, and a sutficient quantity of
seed has been obtained to enable the raisers to distribute it to
the public in the course of the next season, when we doubt not
it will find its way into the hands of most lovers of garden
flowers.

We cannot do better, we think, than give, as a description
of it, the report made by the Floral Committee in the Horti-

cultural Society’s Proceedings : — ;4 Nemophila cliscoidalis elegans.
In this variety, which is a very pretty one, the flowers are of
a bright-chocolate or light reddish-maroon, conspicuously bor¬
dered with white ; the colours are distinctly marked and effec¬
tive. It is commended as a desirable annual or general cul¬
tivation.”

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Plate 104.

AZALEA DUC D’AREMBERG.

Azalea indica , var.

The frequenters of the various horticultural exhibitions held
during the last month at Kensington, the Kegent’s Park, and
the Crystal Palace, could not fail to have been struck with the
wonderful specimens of Azaleas contributed by various growers,
both public and private ; they have been, indeed, for many years
a leading feature of the May exhibitions, but we think that this
year they have been finer than ever ; newer varieties are being
brought forward, and some of the older and less effective ones
are displaced — this being a work of time, where the plants
must necessarily be so large.

The hybridizers, both of the continent and this country, are
emulating one another in their endeavour to bring before the
public new and sterling varieties, and during the past few years
have been very successful in their attempts to improve it, both
in form and colour — Messrs. Kinghorn, I very, Frost, and others,
in England, and Mons. Verschaeffelt and other growers in Bel¬
gium, having largely added to our floral treasures in this family.
One of the more recent of the continental varieties forms the
subject of our present plate ; it was exhibited by Messrs. F. and
A. Smith, of Dulwich, at the April show of the Boyal Horti¬
cultural Society, and received a first-class certificate ; the flowers
are of good form and substance, of a delicate salmon-pink co¬
lour, with a broad distinct margin of white, the pink being
striped and dashed with red ; the upper petals are spotted at
the base with deep red, and altogether it is very well worthy
of the position that it occupied.

The cultivation of the Indian Azaleas is by no means difficult,
and their exceedingly free-flowering habits render them alike va¬
luable to the exhibitor, who wishes to make a blaze of beaut v.

* -

or to the private grower, who merely desires them for home
decoration. In a conversation we had some little time since
with one of the most eminent growers and most successful ex¬
hibitors of the flower, he informed us, that it was his practice
never to place them out-of-doors, as is generally done, and to
keep them growing for at least six months in the year, adding,
that as his plants did not cease growing until the end of August,
and that they must be removed into the house in October, they
would only be, under any circumstances, three or four weeks
out-of-doors. In preference to doing this, he throws open the
front and sides of his house and allows a free circulation of air ;
for it oftentimes happens, that when in the open air, they are
caught by one of the early autumnal frosts, and although the
results of this do not immediately appear, yet the blooms ul¬
timately drop off, and thus disappoint the grower’s hopes ; and,
if we are to judge by results, his plan must be the right one,
for not only are his plants models of growth, but he invariably
holds the first place as an exhibitor.

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Plate 105.

CAMELLIA, CONTESSA LAVINIA MAGGI.

Camellia japonica , var.

If considerable disappointment were experienced, that at the
Spring Exhibitions of this year, so few plants of Camellia com¬
paratively speaking, were brought forward for competition, the
same feeling could not have existed with regard to the varieties
shown. The exquisite form of Sarah Frost (an Americeui va¬
riety), the snowy whiteness of the Duchesse de Bern , and the
regular markings of the variety we now figure, were the admi¬
ration of all who had the good fortune to see them.

The Royal Horticultural Society, anxious to see a better dis¬
play of this universal favourite, has offered a very liberal prize
to be competed for at their Spring Exhibition next season, which
will not be confined to amateurs, but open to all. We may
then expect to see such a display of Camellias as the London
world has never before had an opportunity of witnessing. Al¬
ready we have heard the note of preparation on many sides,
and doubtless many of the newer varieties will be shown in a
better condition than they have hitherto been.

Contessa Lavinia Maggi was exhibited by both Mr. John
Standish, of Bagshot, and Messrs. Yeitch and Son, of Exeter
and Chelsea. The latter firm showed it at the exhibition on
the 19th of March, when it was awarded a first-class certificate
from the Floral Sub-Committee. Our figure was taken from
the plant exhibited by Mr. Standish, who very obligingly lent
it to our artist for that purpose. It is a very fine variety, of
vigorous habit ; the colour a blush-white, regularly marked
with bright carmine stripes ; the form is very good, the petals
being regularly imbricated, and the flower-wells filled up to
the centre. The markings seemed to us also to be more con¬
stant than is the case with many of the varieties hitherto

grown— such as Tricolor , Countess of Derby , etc. It is, as its
name imports, a flower of Italian origin, a country from whence
many of the best of our modern varieties have been received.

We have nothing to add to our previous remarks on the sub¬
ject of cultivation, and we believe that the superior vigour of
many of the newer sorts will remove any difficulties that may
have attended the successful growth of this most lovely tribe.

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Plate 10 G.

MAUVE-COLOURED SWAIN SONIA.

Swainsonia viola cea.

During a hurried visit we lately paid to Messrs. E. G. Hen¬
derson and Son’s Nursery, St. John’s Wood, we came upon a
new and remarkable pea-shaped flower, growing in the same
span-roofed pit which has been already made famous by the
successful treatment of two of the most beautiful climbers
known, Lapageria rosea and Cliantlius Dampierii , and on in¬
quiry found it to be the plant of which blooms had been re¬
cently before the Floral Committee, where it had excited a
good deal of attention as a new species of Swainsonia.

According to the account given to us by Mr. Andrew Hen¬
derson, the seeds of it had been forwarded to them from the
interior of Australia as those of a new scarlet Clianthus. This
plant was raised by them, and planted last year in its present
situation in the border of tlie pit. From the difficulty of keep¬
ing it free from red spider, and from its general aspect, they
were led to believe that it was a hardy plant, and they had in¬
tended placing it out of doors ; but as it started for growth
early this season, they allowed it to remain in its present po¬
sition, and have been rewarded by a display of beautiful spikes
of mauve-coloured flowers, a shade of colour, we believe, hi¬
therto unknown amongst pea-shaped dowers. Mr. Henderson
himself thought that it was likely to prove hardy; but whe¬
ther it be so or not, it will be a most desirable acquisition to
any collection.

Swainsonia violacea (so named by Dr. Lindley) is an herba¬
ceous plant, somewhat similar in its appearance to others of the
same genus, though if looked almost as if it were u halfway
between it and Clianthus.” Its habit may be described as
that of a half-climber, reaching about five feet in height. The

spikes of mauve-coloured flowers are produced in great abun¬
dance from the axils of the leaves, each flower being about
an inch across, the whole plant being very beautiful

It had not as yet produced seed, and must therefore be pro¬
pagated by cuttings, although we have little doubt but the
same skill which has succeeded in seeding so abundantly the
Lapageria and Clianthus will also very shortly conquer this
difficulty also, and we shall then expect to see this plant as ex¬
tensively grown as they are at present.

Mr. Andrew Henderson has obligingly sent us, in answer to
some questions we put to him, the following notes : —

46 The propagation of the Swainsonia would be by cuttings,
and there is no doubt but that it will seed freely on strong
plants, as several formed seed-pods with us. The plant appears
to be very hardy, indeed I believe it to be quite hardy ; against
a wall it will be very fine, and its full beauty has not yet been
seen ; it is a robust-growing plant, and with that, a very prolific
bloomer. We planted out a small plant quite late in August,
last year ; it grew freely, but had not time to establish itself ;
after the severe winter we had, I took it up, and the base was
fresh, and green eyes were just pushing; we potted it, and it
just started off and then died : so that a plant fairly established,
I expect, will live out-of-doors ; a slight protection, such as a
mat, and planted against a wall, will ensure it.”

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Plate 107.

METEOR EUCHSIA.

Fuchsia Tiyhrida , var.

At every place where an opportunity has been afforded of
exhibiting plants during the present spring, the Messrs. Carter,
of Holborn, have brought forward considerable quantities of
this new-foliaged Fuchsia. It has been generally admired, and
at the Royal Botanic Society received a certificate of merit as
a pretty-foliaged plant.

The desire for novelties has extended itself to any variegation
in foliage, even of the most common British plants, and certifi¬
cates have been awarded during the past two seasons for what
many would regard as mere wayside plants, the modern style
of gardening, both in and out of doors, freely making use of
any departure from the ordinary green foliage ; and foliaged
plants, from the magnificent Cyanophyllum down to the little
Veronica, find their admirers. To all such persons this new
variegated Fuchsia will be an acquisition, for it is a departure
from the ordinary white and green, and yellow and green, of
which so many consist.

We understand that Meteor wTas received by the Messrs. Carter
from the Continent, and that it is one of those with semi-double
corollas ; but the character of the flower is of little moment, as
it will be grown for the foliage, and not for the bloom. The
leaves, as will be seen on reference to the figure, are of a rich
golden yellow, variegated with bronze ; the ends of the young
shoots are of a rich crimson. The plant altogether is not un¬
like in appearance when young to an Amaranthus ; and we are
informed that a very large number of it will be distributed,
those who have seen it at the various exhibitions being greatly
pleased with it. We therefore feel that it may well stand on
its own merits, without needing any recommendation beyond
that which Mr. Andrews’s pretty and correct drawing will be
sure to convey.

The complaints that have been so justly made, against the
style of exhibiting Fuchsias which has hitherto prevailed, are
no longer likely to be deserved. The long, gaunt, pyramidal
plant, kept in its constrained form by stakes and hoops, is not
likely to be an eyesore at our future exhibitions, for a collection
of small plants, admirably grown, was shown at the June fete
of the Royal Botanic Society, and received the first prize ;
the exhibitor being greatly complimented on having broken
through the old routine form of ill-managed plants.

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Plate 108.

AURICULAS — GEORGE LXGHTBODY AND

SOUTHERN STAR.

Primula Auricula , var.

After many years of neglect, as far as the south of England
is concerned, this beautiful spring flower seems once more to
be rapidly rising into favour. The prizes offered for it at the
spring shows of the Royal Botanic and Royal Horticultural
Societies have greatly encouraged growers, and the large num¬
ber of plants brought together at the first National Auricula
Show, held on the 30th April, at the Royal Botanic Society’s
Gardens, enabled the general public to seeAhe peculiar charms
which belong to this class of Flora’s beauties.

There is, as was observed by many of those who 'witnessed
the National Show, a special charm about these very unique
flowers. The regularity of their colours, the curious rnealy-
looking powder which marks some, and the handsome foliage
of many of the varieties, are to be met with in no other tribe,
and it is not wonderful that growers have been so enthusiastic
over their particular favourites ; and one had but to notice the
eager groups, on the occasion alluded to, discussing the merits
of the various plants, to see how completely their minds were
engaged about them, paid how unwilling they would have been
to have admitted any other flower on an equality with them.

We have selected two for our present illustration ; one,
George Lightbody , raised by our esteemed friend Mr. Headly,
of Stapleford, near Cambridge, received the premier prize at
the National Show, as being the best flower exhibited in about
300 plants. This is a high honour, but no higher than it de¬
serves. We once regarded it as inferior to that very fine flower,
Lancashire Hero , and expressed an opinion to that effect, which
however now we willingly retract. It is a flower of very re-

markable regularity, and when obtained in good condition no
doubt holds the position assigned to it. All lovers of the Auri¬
cula, who know the kind and genial spirit of Mr. Headly, and
the high position which Mr. Lightbody holds as a grower, will
rejoice that two such names are associated with a flower which
will long hold a high place in the favour of Auricula growers.
Southern Star was exhibited as a seedling by Mr. Holland,
gardener to S. W. Peake, Esq., Spring Grove, Isleworth, before
the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, and
received a label of commendation. It is a flower of peculiar
brightness, a light purplish crimson, and will make a striking
novelty on the stage. The paste, as the white portion around
the eye is called, is not sufficiently solid, and therefore we can
hardly regard it as a first-class exhibition flower ; but it will be
a favourite, for the sake of contrast, on the home stage.

Plate 109.

VARIETIES 0 E SINGLE PETUNIA.

Petunia nyctaginifiora , vars.

TV hile the great advance in double Petunias (which with
their large and singularly striking flowers cannot fail to please)
has led to the introduction of some lovely varieties, the race of
single flowers is evidently making great efforts not to be thrown
into the shade altogether ; and the very beautiful ones which
we now figure will show, we think, that the characters they are
now assuming are such as to enable them to retain their hold
in the estimation of all lovers of flowers.

All the varieties of Petunia, both single and double, make
pleasing pot-plants for the decoration of the greenhouse after
the Pelargoniums have gone out of bloom, and they may be
grown to almost any size, some specimens which we have seen
at the exhibitions this season being quite as large as many of
the largest specimen greenhouse plants, which form so promi¬
nent a feature at our shows. One variety, so m evil at similar to
Flower of the Pay , called Madame Ferguson , was exhibited at
the Royal Horticultural Society, and was not less than seven '
feet in height, and although the blooms are somewhat evanes¬
cent, yet they are produced in such quantities as not to cause
this to be any serious defect.

The two varieties now figured were raised by Mr. Holland,
gardener to R. W. Peake, Esq., Spring Grove, Isleworth (the
raiser of the seedling Auricula, Southern Star , figured in our
last number), and from him have passed into the hands of Mr.

B. S. Williams, of the Paradise Nursery, Seven Sisters Road,
Holloway, by whom they will be distributed to the public.
Fig. 1, llosa belief orme , is a flower of very fine shape and good
substance, larger and stouter than any in its class ; the colour
a bright magenta (as it is now called), with a very clear white

throat ; the flower stands out well for the foliage, and is alto¬
gether an advance on its predecessors, Shrubland Hose , The
Queen , Fascination , etc.

Fig. 2, Flower of the Fay , is the more striking of the two :
it is somewhat in the style of Madame Ferguson , before alluded
to, but the bands, which are bright rosy crimson, are much
broader and brighter than in that variety ; and we believe it will
be found to be equally constant, and that both flowers will be
in favour with ail admirers of this tribe.

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Plate 110.

“JOHN HOPPER” ROSE.

Rosa Tiylrida , vars.

A few weeks ago we received from Mr. Ward, of the Rosary,
Ipswich, a box containing some truly grand blooms of a new
Rose, which he stated that he had succeeded in raising, and
which he purposed, if it were thought a desirable variety, to
send out this autumn. Our recommendation was to send a box
of blooms of it to the Rose Show of the Horticultural Society,
where most of the growers and admirers of the Rose would be
present, and to receive the decision of the Sub-Committee of
the Floral Committee upon it. We believed that there could be
but one opinion as to its merits, in which we were fully confirmed
by its not only receiving a first-class certificate, but by the una¬
nimous verdict of every one who could obtain a view of it on
that occasion.

A new era is thus, we believe, commencing in the history of
the Rose. Hitherto we have been contented to receive all our
Roses from France, under the persuasion that we could not seed
Roses here, and were contented with the honour of Devoniensis
as our sole English Rose. Now, this season, we have had some
first-class Roses brought before us, Mr. Wm. Pauls Beauty of
Waltham , Mr. A Yard’s John Hopper, and Messrs. Paul and Sons’
Lords Clyde and Canning, — an instalment, we firmly hope and
believe, of other beauties yet to follow ; and thus the laurels
will, we hope, be snatched from our French neighbours, for,
if we can raise flowers as good as theirs, we shall most pro¬
bably have plants better constitutioned, and more capable of
enduring the vicissitudes of our climate, than many of the Con¬
tinental ones are.

We are informed by Mr. Ward that “ John Hopper was
raised from Jules Margottin, hybridized with pollen of Madame

Vidot and it seems to partake of the admirable free-flower¬
ing and vigorous habit of the former, with the exquisite shape
of the latter and if such points be considered, we have every
reason to believe that we shall soon excel our French neigh¬
bours, as very few of them hybridize, leaving that to be done
by various insects: they gather simply the “hips” when ripe,
and hence are not so likely to succeed in procuring all the
qualities desired in a good Rose.

Exception has been taken to the unpoetical character of the
name. It is commonplace, but we believe that it records some¬
thing better than poetry — gratitude to a benefactor. It is, we
believe, the name of one of those who

“ do good by stealth,

And blush to find it fame;”

one to whom Mr. Ward felt a deep debt of gratitude, and after
whom he desired, therefore, to name this his first seedling
Rose. It remains but to say, that it is a large Rose, somewhat
in the style of Pauline Lanzezeur , but fuller, the colour a
bright crimson suffused with violet, and is of very vigorous
habit, bearing twelve or thirteen blooms on one stem, and
that it has been highly spoken of by the 4 Gardener’s Chro¬
nicle,’ ‘Journal of Horticulture,’ 4 Florist,’ 4 Gossip for the
Garden,’ and other gardening publications.

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Plate 111.

VARIETIES OE CINERARIA.

Senecio cruenta , vars.

Amongst the numerous varieties of Cineraria which have
been brought under the notice of the public during the present
season, some very beautiful self-coloured sorts have attracted
considerable notice, and as in our last plate of the general
favourite we gave examples of tipped flowers, we have thought
it desirable to give in our present one three of the most beau¬
tiful of the self-coloured or nearly self-coloured flowers.

It is hardly to be expected that when a flower has reached
so high a pitch of excellence as some of our florists’ flowers
have done, any further great advance can be made ; but, when
we carefully compare (as all who are deeply interested in
it will be sure to do) the flowers of the season with those of a
year or two back, they will see that a considerable improve¬
ment has taken place, both in brightness of colour and in ex¬
cellence of form, while dwarfness in habit and vigour of growth
have been also obtained.

We have found this season that no better place for the old
plants of Cineraria, when they are cut down, and offsets are
desired, can be found than a tiffany house ; they are shaded from
the scorching sun, and at the same time not drawn into growth
as they would be if kept in a greenhouse ; and if this be so in
so cold a summer as this has been, we consider that it will be
found still more useful when the sun has more power and
rain is less abundant. It has been suggested that cocoa-nut
fibre refuse, of which so much has been said lately, will be
found an excellent material for these plants ; and although we
are about to try it ourselves, we shall rather do so as an ex¬
periment than depend on it altogether.

The three varieties which we now figure were exhibited by

Mr. Charles Turner, of the Royal Nursery, Slough, and were
much admired. Fig. 1, James Andrews , is a dark-purple flower
of good shape and bright colour, and as we have not many va¬
rieties of this shade it will be found a desirable acquisition. Fig.
2, The Artist , was awarded an extra prize at one of the spring
shows of the Royal Horticultural Society, as a bright lively
magenta-coloured flower, with a small white circle round the
dark disk, somewhat in the way of Acme. Fig. 3, The Winner ,
(not a very euphonious name,) is a large bright-coloured magenta
self, dwarf in habit, and an improvement on such flowers as
Adam Bede and Reynolds Hole.

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Plate 112.

TRAILING SARMIENTA.

Sarmienta repens.

Among the many plants which have been introduced to the
notice of the public this season by the enterprising firm of
Veitch and Son, of Exeter, and King’s Road, Chelsea, have been
several from Chili ; and as they have been obtained from a
considerable elevation in the Chilian Andes, they are likely to
be many of them, as Mimulus cwpreus , hardy, while others,
such as the curious and interesting plant we now figure, will be
well suited for greenhouse culture.

The practice, now so generally adopted, of growing plants in
hanging baskets, has led to increased attention being paid
to such as have a dwarf and trailing habit, and for such pur¬
poses we believe that Sarmienta repens will be considered
a very desirable addition ; it was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch
at the first great show of the Royal Horticultural Society at
Kensington, when it received a silver Knightian medal from
the Sub-Committee of the Floral Committee, as very useful for
the purpose. There is a goodly number of plants of this class,
suitable for the stove, but those for the greenhouse are rare,
and this seems just the very thing we want; the stems, which
are very freely produced, branch out in all directions, and strike
root as they grow, so that a basket filled with material suitable
for them, viz. light peaty soil, will be soon filled with the
smooth and fleshy leaves, and the shoots then will hang over
the sides. The flowers, as will be seen by reference to the
drawing, are very abundant, the colour a light crimson-scarlet,
and singular in shape, being tubular, swollen in the centre,
and, as has been observed, not a little resembling those of
Mitraria coccinea , although the habit of the plant is very un¬
like it ; its cultivation will, from all appearance, be easy

enough, and we may therefore expect ere long to see it in
every collection where such plants are brought into requisition.
Another novelty was exhibited by the same firm, which we con¬
sidered would be also valuable for this purpose, and one which
we hope to figure in some future number, with a Convolvulus¬
looking flower, — Nolana lanceolate^— and of very free-flowering
habit also.

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Plate 113.

AZALEA, BRILLIANT.*

Azalea indica , var.

In a late number of the 4 Floral Magazine’ we figured a
Continental variety of this favourite flower which had been
lately introduced, and largely exhibited during the past sea¬
son; and we now have the pleasure of placing before our
friends another equally beautiful one of an entirely different
character; Due cVAremberg being one of the prettiest of the
variegata strain, and Brilliant an equally effective example of
the higher-coloured varieties, of which Juliana and Perry ana
are well-known types.

One great charm in this tribe is the great variety of colour
that they exhibit : they are to be found of all shades and tints,
from the purest white to the most brilliant crimson ; and a col¬
lection of them, well staged and selected with that care and
taste which experience alone can give, produce an effect unsur¬
passed by any other class of plants. There is perhaps no ex¬
hibitor who combines great skill in cultivation with equally
good taste in the arrangement of the plants to the same degree
Mr. Charles Turner, of the Royal Nursery, Slough. Few, we
think, could see his collection at any of the great exhibitions
this year without being struck with the exceeding beauty and
tasteful arrangement of his plants. The flower which we now
figure was exhibited by him in one of his smaller collections,
and when it attains the size of those large specimens to which
we have alluded, will form a very attractive plant, from the ex¬
ceeding brightness of its colour, and the beauty of its form.

We have so often given details as to the culture of the
Azalea, that we shall, we think, best consult the wishes and

* Scheurman’s, and not to be confounded with a dull-coloured red of the
same name, already in the catalogues.

interests of our readers by giving a list of those varieties which
are most suitable for general cultivation, and in such differences
of colour as will make an effective display when grouped to¬
gether in a conservatory.

In whites , it is somewhat difficult to obtain perfect purity,
nearly all of those so called at times coming striped or flaked
with carmine, violet, or rose. The best we consider are Ad¬
miration, Gledstanesii , leery ana , Flower of the Fay, magnifica ,
Leeana superha, The Bride, and Vesta. Of variegated flowers,
the finest are Criterion, Distinction, Etoile de Gaud, Fuc
J Aremberg, and variegata: these are all of various shades of
salmon, edged with white, and spotted in the centre of the
petals. Of scarlet, in various shades, the best are Ardens,
Chelsoni, Fuke of Devonshire, Juliana, optima, Perry ana , and
Gem ( Iverys ). In various shades of purple, we have Arhorea
purpurea, Constantia rosea, Miltoni, Louis Napoleon, and Mur¬
ry ana ; while in pink and rose-coloured varieties the most
desirable are coronata, Fuc de Brabant, Model, Leopold First,
Sir Charles Napier, Triumphans , and Perfection ; and in pure
salmon-coloured varieties none exceeds Sir Henry Havelock.
Many of these are to be had at reasonable prices, and will
make a beautiful display when grown with ordinary care, and
kept free from thrip and green fly. Brilliant is remarkable
for the extreme liveliness of its colour, and the great substance
of its petals ; it is much brighter than Juliana, and is, in fact,
the finest flower of its class.

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Plate 114.

TWO-COLOURED BEE LARKSPUR.

Delphinium bicolor grandiflorum .

All who have had to arrange flowers, either for a parterre or
a bouquet, know how difficult it is to obtain good blues for
either one or the other. While reds, and yellows, and their
complementary colours are found in abundance, and violets,
lilacs, purples, etc., into which blue largely enters, are by no
means uncommon, pure blue flowers are very rare ; and hence
the accession during the past few years of a race of perennial
Larkspurs of the dazzling blue of formosmn , Render soni, etc.,
has been hailed as a great boon. In our last volume, we figured
one of these raised by Messrs. Fraser ; and Mr. Andrews has
faithfully represented in our present Plate another of still
greater brilliancy.

Delphinium bicolor grandiflorum (a garden variety of the for -
mosum group) was raised by Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing,
of Stanstead Park and Edinburgh, and exhibited by them at the
June exhibition of the Royal Horticultural Society, and is thus
noticed in their Proceedings : — UA showy variety, with large
flowers, in which the sepals were of a dark blue, and the petals
creamy white, contrasting strongly with the darker colour sur¬
rounding them. This was commended.” We may add, that
it is very free* flowering, and that it possesses the desirable qua¬
lity of coming true from seed ; and as it seems to be dwarfer
habit, it is likely to be very valuable as a border dower and for
bedding. We are informed by the raisers that it was obtained
by careful selection from seedlings of for mosum , continued suc¬
cessively for four years, and is therefore likely to have the de¬
sirable qualities of that variety, with increased beauty in the
spikes, and greater vigour in the habit of the plant.

The Delphinium flourishes well in any rich garden soil, espe-

ciaiiy when of a loamy character. It is somewhat impatient of
excess of moisture, and is a very favourite food of slugs and
snails ; so much is this the case, that in our own garden, where
from its contiguity to open fields they are more than usually
numerous, we have found it better to take up the plants in the
autumn, pot them in some light soil, and place them in a cold
frame ; and in the spring, put them out when the shoots have
attained the height of four or five inches ; when the first bloom
is over, if the stalks are cut off carefully a second supply of
flowers may be obtained in the autumn months. We have
found this plan to answer with formosum and Hendersoni , and
we believe it will also do so with the flower we now figure.

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VARIETIES OE GLOXINIA.

Gloxinia speciosa , vars.

The cultivation of the numerous varieties of Gloxinia is by
no means difficult, but cannot be attempted without the use of
a hothouse or frame, in which they can he started into growth.
The tubers are to be preserved in a dry state during the winter
months, in a temperature of about 50°, as if much higher they
may start into growth, and if much lower they are very likely
to rot.

Those who desire to have a succession of bloom will pot off
some of the tubers in January, in soil composed of equal parts of
loam, peat, and leaf-mould, with a good portion of silver sand,
the temperature of the house being about 70°. Another supply
may be potted in February, and so on until the end of April.
At first water should be given very sparingly, and indeed at all
times during their growth it should not be given abundantly,
for the foliage holds a good deal of moisture ; they should be
therefore syringed lightly. When the flowers make their ap¬
pearance they may be removed to a warm part of the green¬
house, where or in a conservatory they will blossom freely du¬
ring the summer months. When their season is over, they
may be placed out of doors in order to ripen the tubers, but
should not be exposed to heavy rains, which would tend to rot
them.

The varieties figured in our plate will be shortly sent out by
Mr. Wm. Bull, of the Exotic Nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea;
one of them belonging to the drooping and three to the erect
flowering section. No. 1, Lauretta , is a pretty drooping flower,
the limb being composed of fine segments of a delicate violet-
lavender colour, with pencillings of a deeper shade of the same.
No. 2, Beauty , is an erect-flowered variety of great delicacy, the

tube being pure white, and the limb of delicate cerise rose, with
some slight pencillings of a darker shade. No. 3, Anonyma , is
another erect-flowered variety, the limb, which is divided into
six segments, being of a very similar shade of colour to Lauretta ,
and the throat slightly spotted with light violet. No. 4, Fairy ,
is a flower of great beauty, the white being very clean, and the
bright violet rose-colour not covering the entire of the limb,
but only the mouth of the tube. There is a slight yellowish
tinge in the tube itself, and a little shading of the rose-colour.
All the varieties are of fair average size, and are said to he
free-flowering in their habits.

Although the Gloxinia is not subject to many diseases, thrift
occasionally proves troublesome to it; the plants of a friend
and neighbour having largely suffered from them this season.
Smoking with tobacco is the only effectual way of getting rid
of this pest.

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Plate 116.

NEW JAPANESE LILY.

Lilium (nova species).

When it was announced that so experienced a collector as
Mr. Robert Fortune was, on the opening out of Japan to Eu¬
ropean enterprise, about to proceed to that island for the pur¬
pose of ransacking its floral treasures, and that a young and
ardent botanist, Mr. J. G. Veitch, was engaged in the same ob¬
ject, expectations were high as to the result of their journey.
Nor have these expectations been disappointed, for a large ac¬
cession of plants, new to our greenhouses and gardens, has
proved how diligent they have been. The jealousy of the Ja¬
panese, however, hindered much exploration into the interior,
and the productions sent home have mainly been obtained from
Jeddo, or from the Japanese nurseries, which abound in the vi¬
cinity of that city.

As Japan had already supplied us with those very beautiful
Lilies of the lancifolium group, which are such universal fa-
vourites, it was naturally expected that we might obtain fur¬
ther additions; and any one who saw the beautiful Lilium
auratum , exhibited by Messrs. Veitch, and which is also in the
possession of Mr. John Standish, of Bagshot, would at once say
that it was the most interesting flower exhibited this year.
Lilium Fortunii , a beautiful yellow Turk’s-cap flower, is also
likely to be much prized ; and the one now figured, although
neither so showy nor so novel as either of the others, will espe¬
cially (if hardy, which it is likely to be) be of considerable
value, from its dwarf habit, for the borders of American beds,
and similar places.

It will be seen that this new species is of rather an unusual
form, consisting, as it does, of a double row of petals, the outer
ones reflexing, and the inner row standing semi-erect. The

colour is a very deep bronze-red, the centre of the petals being
spotted with black, and with numerous papillae of a lighter
shade of colour than the petals. The plant itself is slender in
habit ; the leaves narrow and painted, its length being about
one foot or eighteen inches : it will succeed in a light and rich
soil, such as other Japanese Lilies delight in.

His many engagements have prevented Mr. Standish, as yet,
from sending it to either of our great botanical authorities, Sir
William Hooker or Dr. Lindley ; but we believe it is his inten¬
tion to do so immediately.

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Plate 117.

NEW HYBRID ERYTHRINA.

IJry ih r in a ru l er rim a .

During a visit paid not long since to Paris, we had an oppor¬
tunity of observing how largely the different varieties of Ery-
thrina, or Coral tree, are used in the ornamentation of flower-
gardens, the more genial climate of the French metropolis being
favourable to their development in such situations. We subse-
quently visited the well-known horticultural establishment of
Messrs. Thibaut and Keleteer, in the Rue Charonne, and are
indebted to the latter gentleman for the opportunity of figuring
the newest and, we believe, the most valuable of the garden
hybrids which iudicious crossing has introduced amongst us.

It is to M. Belanger, of Tours, that we owe the improvement
that has taken plane in this very showy tribe of flowering plants.
With considerable skill, he has contrived to obtain the brilliant
colour of E. Crist a-g alii upon a more dwarf and free-flowering
habit ; and when well grown nothing can exceed the brilliancy
of their appearance. In our colder climate they will succeed
only in sheltered places, but make admirable pot-plants, re¬
quiring however liberal treatment to effect this object.

The various varieties of Ery thrina, at least those of the Crista -
galli section, are “ subshrubby herbaceous plants,” having a
woody crown, from which arise each spring the stems, termi¬
nating in a gorgeous spike of bloom of brilliant crimson or
scarlet flowers. When they have done flowering, the stem (not¬
withstanding that its woody appearance might lead one to sup¬
pose that it was intended to be permanent) must be cut down,
and the plant then allowed a season of rest : at the base of
this stem will be observed a number of buds ; from these issue
the shoots, in February or March. The plants should then be
disrooted, and repotted in a mixture composed of equal parts

of yellow loam, leaf-mould, and peat, with a little silver sand.
They should then be placed in some situation where they can
obtain a little gentle bottom heat, and when fairly started may
be removed into an intermediate house, and thence into the
conservatory or greenhouse. When the experiment of growing
them as bedding plants is desired, two- or three-year-old plants
should be used. They should be planted out in some sheltered
situation in June ; and when cut down, if it is intended to keep
them in the ground, should be covered over with lea '-mould,
or cocoa-nut fibre, to the depth of ten or twelve inches, with
some external covering to throw off the wet.

The most valuable of the garden varieties are Belangeri ,
Marie Belanger, fioribunda , and ruberrima. Belangeri is not
dwarf; and fioribunda , although deserving of its name from
the fact that it blooms in a very early stage, has, we were in¬
formed by M. Keleteer, the fault of sometimes not flowering.
We saw a whole bed of it in the Parc de Montceaux without
a single spike of bloom. Buberrima , on the other hand, is
very constant in its blooming character, and we therefore think
that it and Marie Belanger will form the most valuable varieties
for general purposes.

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PINKS, ATTRACTION AND DEVICE.

Dianthus caryophylloides , vars.

We perceive, on referring to the Proceedings of the Royal
Horticultural Society, that the Floral Committee have, during
the present season, awarded no less than six first-class certifi¬
cates and one second-class to new Pinks — a sufficient proof,
we think, that, notwithstanding the perfection to which we
have attained in this as in other florists’ flowers, improvement
is still possible ; and that in the judgment of that body there is
still merit to be found in the new varieties brought before
them.

We are glad to find that, notwithstanding his oft-repeated
declaration of giving up the growth of this sweet and (when
well managed) very pretty flower, Dr. Maclean, to whom is
mainly owing the great progress made in the Pink, is still en¬
gaged in the work of hybridizing; both of the flowers, which
have been very accurately rendered by Mr. Andrews, being
raised by him, and they are assuredly sufficiently beautiful to
tempt any one to grow them. It must however be borne in
mind, that such specimens are not to be obtained without great
care and skill ; indeed, it is the same with all flowers. The
gorgeous Dahlias exhibited at the Crystal Palace and Kensing¬
ton ; the beautiful boxes of Verbenas, and the grand spikes of
Hollyhocks, all have special treatment given to them to pro¬
duce them in the state in which they are exhibited ; and if the
same varieties are grown in the ordinary way (however care¬
fully), the same result must not be expected.

Pinks have been peculiarly fine and well laced during the
past season, a cool and moist spring suiting them best ; in dry
seasons, the lacing, as the coloured edge is called, being fre¬
quently even in the highest-coloured varieties absent. One point,

which is not sufficiently attended to when fine flowers are de¬
sired, is disbudding : not more than three flower-stems should
be allowed to each plant, and not more than three buds left on
each stem ; where, however, the variety is a very full one more
may be left.

Amongst the new varieties exhibited this season have been

Marion *, Bridesmaid *, Exquisite *, Device *, Bertram* , Attraction,
Blondin ; sent by Mr. Turner : and Mr. F. Cociffe , by Mr.
Hooper, of Bath : those marked * have attained first-class cer¬
tificates. Device is a flower of large size, very full, and well
marked ; the colour, a bright rosy-purple ; the petal being
very smooth, and as it is technically called rose-leaved. At¬
traction, although not honoured by the same distinction, is, in
the opinion of Mr. Turner and his intelligent foreman, Mr. Ball,
likely to prove a very useful flower. It is not so full or large
as Device , but is remarkable for the size and smoothness of its
guard petals ; the colour, too, is of a very bright violet-purple,
and the lacing very decided. We trust to see these and other
varieties of this favourite flower largely exhibited during the
next season at Kensington.

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Plate 119.

VARIETIES OE PHLOX.

Phlox decussate i, vars .

How greatly we are indebted to foreign raisers for the pro¬
ductions which enrich our gardens and greenhouses, the large
amount of French names to he found in the catalogues of most

of those flowers on which the skill of the hybridizer has been

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exercised sufficiently testify ; nor is the Phlox an exception to
the rule, nearly all the beautiful varieties of it having reached
us from France.

M. Lafontaine, an amateur grower whose speciality is the
Phlox, and M. Lierval, of Ternes, close to Paris, are the chan¬
nels through which the greater number have come to us. The
former gentleman grows nearly 30,000 seedlings every year ;
several are selected from these and tried a second vear bv M.

Lierval, and then distributed to the public ; the great points
aimed at being dwarf habit, a good head of bloom, and dis¬
tinctness of colour. Nothing can be more beautiful than the
large beds of these to be seen at M. Liervahs ; but the bright
and sunny atmosphere of Paris is more suited for them than
our moister climate — a shower of rain or even a fog conside-
rably detracting from their beauty. In a dry and bright Sea¬
son they are especially beautiful.

Although the Phlox flowers freely in the first vear of its
growth, it maybe said to be in perfection the following season ;
after that the flowers deteriorate, and it is better to renew them
by fresh cuttings. The soil should be rich, as they like liberal
culture, and if not so naturally, a good supply of well rotted
manure should be added to it ; the well-established plants
should be planted about two feet apart, and if the flowering
shoots are cut off as soon as the bloom is over, a succession of
bloom may be had from July until the end of September. The

plants should be well secured to neat stakes, as they are ex¬
ceedingly brittle ; when it is desired to increase them, they
should be taken up and potted, and their growth encouraged.
As soon as the shoots are long enough, they should be taken off
and placed round the edge of a pot ; they will then root. rapidly,
and may be gradually hardened off so as to be fit to plant out

in May.

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The varieties which we have figured are some of the re¬
cent introductions from France, and we are indebted to Mr.
John Standish, of the Royal Nurseries, Bagshot and Ascot,
for the opportunity of figuring them. Madame la Comtesse de
Bresson (fig. 1) is a white flower of excellent shape and sub¬
stance, with a brilliant rosy carmine eye. Le Vesuve (fig. 2) is,
in the condition in which we saw it and in which Mr. Andrews
has represented it, beautifully striped, but we fear that this is
not constant, as it is described as of a purplish-amaranth colour,
in either state very beautiful. Eclair (fig. 3) is a flower of
great brilliancy, a rich rosy-scarlet, with a dark-crimson centre,
forming altogether a very effective flower. Little dependence
can be placed in the dwarf character ascribed to Phloxes, as
those which are eighteen inches high the first season frequently
attain the height of two or three feet in the following one, but
none of those figured are amongst the more robust-growing
varieties.

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Plate 120.

BOSE, LOBD CLYDE.

Rosa Jiybricla , var.

Frequent allusion has been made in the reports of the flower
shows held during the present season to English-raised Eoses,
and amongst others to one raised by Messrs. Paul and Son, of
Cheshunt, named Lord Clyde , which we now have the pleasure
of figuring, believing that, although not what is termed a
florist’s flower, it will be found a useful and hardy addition to
the class of hybrid perpetuals.

We are informed by Mr. George Paul, jun., that it was in
the same batch of seedlings from which Beauty of Waltham
was taken, and that, in the distribution of the stock, it with
another good Eose, Lord Canning , fell to their share. Being
thus of English origin, it is likely to prove of a good constitu¬
tion ; and as it was exhibited in good condition on the 10th of
September at Kensington, it is also likely to be a good au¬
tumnal bloomer.

The Eose shows of the present season have evidenced the in¬
creased and increasing interest taken in the culture of this uni-
versal favourite, justly designated the “ Queen of Flowers and,
although a large number of the Eoses introduced last autumn
from France have proved (as is generally the case) worthless,
vet we believe some valuable additions have been made. We

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may mention, amongst hybrid perpetuals, Frangois Lacharme ,
Maurice Bernhardin , I)uc de Bohan , Souvenir de Comte Cavour ,
La Brillante , and Olivier Delhomme , as likely to be general fa
vourites; and amongst tea-scented Eoses, Comtesse Ouvarojf
and Gloire de Bordeaux — the latter a seedling from Gloire de
Dijon — promise well. Some of them have already been exhi¬
bited in good condition, and we believe another season will
evidence their high character.

We cannot claim for Lord Clyde the honours which have
been accorded to John Hopper and Beauty of Waltham. , nor do
we think that it is equal in quality to those two Roses. In
the earlier part of the season it is very full ; the colour, a rich
crimson abundantly suffused with a plum-coloured hue, not un¬
like some of the deeper-coloured Bourbons, such as Vorace and
Georye Peabody ; while in the autumn it approaches very much
in appearance to Due de Cazes , the petals being large and
highly coloured ; and we believe that it will be a very useful
Bose, either in the garden or the stand. The success which
has thus in several instances been achieved by English-raised
seedlings is inducing many others to try the same hitherto un¬
worked held, and we shall hope to from time to time chronicle
the results attained.

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Plate 121.

THE GOLD-BANDED LILY OE JAPAN.

Lilium auratum . *

We are indebted to the courtesy of our kind friend Mr.
Standish, of the Loyal Nurseries, Bagshot and Ascot, for the
opportunity of figuring the very beautiful variety of this newly
introduced and exquisite flower. It was exhibited by him at
the Crystal Palace autumn show, where it received as much ad¬
miration as did those exhibited by Messrs. Veitch at the Royal
Horticultural Society’s exhibition. It seems to have been dis¬
covered by Mr. Robert Fortune and Mr. J. G. Veitch about the

same time, and we are sure our readers will be interested in
the following note, most kindly furnished to us by the former
gentleman : —

“ I/ilium auratum is one of the wild dowers of Japan. I met
with it for the first time in the summer of 1861, in my ram¬
bles on the hillsides near Kanagawm. I observed it pushing
up amongst the long grass and brushwood, and watched its pro¬
gress with much interest, as it was evidently something new7.
It began to open its flow7ers on the last days of June, arid con¬
tinued in bloom all July and part of August ; that is, during
the hottest time of the year. The flower-stems were usually
from three to four feet in height, and three, four, and sometimes
five large flowers were produced upon a single stem. The fra¬
grance emitted by these flowers scented the air for a consider¬
able distance on all sides of them. There are two or three
rather distinct varieties, differing from each other in the colour

of the spots on the flower.

“ The roots of this Lily are invariably much deeper in the

# When exhibited at the Crystal Palace, it was suggested by an eminent
botanist that the variety should be called roseum punctatum. We have, how¬
ever, left it with its simple name, auratum.

earth than those of the other species with which I am ac¬
quainted in a wild state. It has been somewhere asserted that
these roots are those which are usually sold in the markets, and
eaten by the natives. This is a mistake ; the edible species is
Li Hum ti grinum. ’ ’

The Gold-banded Lily ( auratum ) is so called from the beau¬
tiful band of yellow which runs down the centre of each petal,
giving it a very distinct appearance. The spots, which are
irregularly distributed and of various sizes, are in the plants
from which the exquisite figure was taken by Mr. Andrews
of a beautiful rosy carmine, while in those exhibited by Messrs.
Veitch they were chocolate. Thus two of the varieties men¬
tioned by Mr. Fortune have been introduced; on this plant, two
flowers were produced, and doubtless, when the bulbs are well
established, the larger number of four and five will be obtained.
It produces pollen in great abundance, and Mr. Standish hav¬
ing succeeded in hybridizing other species of Lily with it, in
the hands of so skilful an operator it will doubtless produce
some striking results. The size of the bloom from which the
drawing was taken was eleven inches across, and therefore, in
order to bring it within the dimensions of our Plate, it has been
reduced.

We fear it is useless to say anything about its cultivation,
for its price is now fifteen guineas, and unless some enterprising
collector sends home a quantity of it, we fear it will be a long
time before it comes within the reach of the many. It flou¬
rishes, however, under the same kind of treatment as that
usually given to the Lilies of the lancifolium group.

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Plate 122.

WHITE-MARGINED CLARKIA.

Clarhia pulchella (var. integripetala margined a).

There are few annuals which seem to exhibit so sportive a
character as the ClarJcia. We have already in the present vo¬
lume figured a very beautiful double variety, and we now have,
through the courtesy of Messrs. Carter, the eminent seedsmen,
of Holborn, the opportunity of adding to our Plates the pre¬
sent very chaste and elegant one, which has been originated
by them at their seed-farms in Essex, and which will doubtless
become a general favourite with all admirers of this pretty
tribe.

The very extended rage for what is called the “ bedding-out”
system of gardening has led to the exclusion to a great extent
of annuals from our parterres ; but symptoms are not wanting
to indicate that very probably ere long there will be a modifi¬
cation of that style. The great flatness of the beds and the
sameness of colour have been strongly urged by those who have
criticized of late the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society
at Kensington Gore, where the style is carried out under the>
most favourable circumstances ; and we may therefore confi¬
dently anticipate, that if any change is made, annuals will,
some of them at least, be more sought after; for they do un¬
questionably supply a great variety of colour, and their various
heights would tend to break the flatness which a continuous
series of Geraniums, Calceolarias, Verbenas, etc., does produce.
Whenever that is the case, some of the numerous varieties of
ClarJcia will be greatly sought after.

Few persons are however aware of the great extent to which
annuals are grown. In a communication with which we have
been favoured by Messrs. Carter, we are informed that they
have about one hundred and seventy acres under flower-seeds

in this country, and about the same on the Continent : eight
acres are devoted to Nemophila, the same to Mignonette ; to
Saponaria Calobrica > four and a half ; to Virginian Stock, three ;
to Candytuft, 'four; and others in like proportions, and this
only from one grower. Large quantities are saved in France
and Germany ; and the Sardinian correspondent of Messrs. Barr
and Sugden grows some of the finest and rarest sorts at Nice.

Clarinet integripetcila marginal a is an exceedingly distinct va¬
riety ; the petals are of a beautiful lively rose, broadly margined
with white, and it is very constant, for on the plant which we
examined we did not find a single flower that had come untrue ;
and this we are assured is the character of the plant generally.
Like all its congeners, it is very free-dowering, and succeeds
with the ordinary culture given to hardy annuals.

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Plate 128.

GLADIOLUS, MR. J. W. LANE.

Gladiolus gandavensis , oar.

The favour with which the Gladiolus has latterly been re-
garded has strikingly increased within the last twelve months ;
the display of it at the autumn exhibitions dividing the atten¬
tion of visitors with the Dahlias and Asters, and by the length
of the spikes taking away somewhat of that hat appearance
which an exhibition of cut dowers generally has. Sufficient en¬
couragement has however hardly been given to the amateur
grovrer, as there has been no division, either at the Crystal
Palace or at the Royal Horticultural Society, into the two
classes, of groovers for sale and amateurs, and hence the stands
exhibited have come entirely from the former class, it being
cleanly impossible for any amateur to successfully compete with
those who grow from one to three acres ; we hope and believe
that the omission will be remedied next year, when vre trust
to see a large accession of private exhibitors.

There is one point which we do not think has been suffi¬
ciently considered amongst the advantages of this beautiful
autumn flov7er, and that is the length of time the bloom lasts.
We do not grow above two hundred bulbs, and yet from the
middle of August to the present time, the middle of October,
we have never been without some fine spikes ; some are even
now opening, and should there not be an early frost, will
be very fine in a few days’ time ; it is quite a mistake too to
imagine that they do best in light soil, they will bear a good
deal of manure and thrive v7ell in it, but then it ought to be
applied in the autumn, dug into the ground, and the beds turned
up vffien there is hard frost, so as to get it well incorporated
together ; and even when the bulbs are planted, an additional
supply of Avell-rotted manure may be added.

The fine variety which we now figure is one of the numerous
progeny which have been originated at the Bagshot Nursery
by Mr. John Standish, and is named after a very enthusiastic
florist, with whom we have ourselves entered the lists in for¬
mer days in Ireland, and who, to his other successful attempts
in the floral warfare, has lately carried off the principal prize
for Gladiolus at the Autumn ShowT of the Royal Horticultural
Society of Ireland. Mr. Standish is still successfully bringing
forward many choice kinds, and his catalogue this season will
show us what wonderful varieties of colour and marking this
beautiful flower is assuming. M. Souchet, too, the equally
celebrated raiser at Fontainebleau, has some new flowers of con¬
siderable merit it is said, which are being introduced to the
public by Messrs. Thibaut and Keteleer; they are Flore , Be
Candolle , Imperatrice Eugenie , Stephenson , and John Wat ever: of
these Imperatrice Eugenie is said to be the greatest novelty yet
seen ; it is more than likely, however, from the description we
have seen of it, that it is not unlike the flower we figured [Mrs.
Eombrain) in an early number of this volume.

The variety now figured is in colour a bright crimson-red,
the three lower petals having a broad blotch of buff and a crim¬
son feather in the centre. There are also deep crimson spots
in the throat of the flower, making it altogether not only a
pretty but a striking flower.

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Plate 124.

ACHIMENES, MAUVE QUEEN.

Achimenes hybrida , var.

There is not for the summer and autumn decoration of our
greenhouses a more useful or beautiful plant than the Achi¬
menes ; the abundance with which its flowers are produced, and
the brilliancy and beauty which characterize them, make them
invaluable at a period when the Pelargoniums and other green¬
house plants have passed their prime ; and the skill of the
hybridizer has been successfully employed in adding numerous
varieties, the most recent of which we now have the pleasure of
figuring, raised by Mr. Parsons, gardener at Danesbury House,
Welwyn, Herts, who has already done more for the improve¬
ment of this flower than any other English grower ; for those
fine sorts, Dazzle and Meteor , owe their origin to him, and Mauve
Queen is as great an advance on the longiflora class as they were
on the high-coloured varieties.

The cultivation of the Achimenes is by no means difficult,
but it cannot be successfully attempted without the use of an in¬
termediate house or a warm frame in which the tubers are to

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be started ; for this purpose they should be placed in shallow
pans of finely sifted peat and sand, and placed where they can
obtain a temperature of 60° or 70°. When they are started, and
about an inch in height, they should be transplanted into the
blooming-pots, the number of plants required varying of course
with the size of the pot ; five will with ease well fill one of six
inches in diameter, and if these can be obtained rather wide than
deep it will be preferable ; if however it is desired to have really
specimen plants, the pans should be about a foot across, and
double the number of tubers employed. The soil most suitable
is composed of loam and peat in about equal proportions, with
a little well-rotted manure and silver-sand ; it is not necessary

to sift it very finely, and a good proportion of drainage should
be used. The plant should be inserted about an inch below the
surface, the pans filled up, and watered with a fine rose, with
water off which the chill has been taken ; they should then he
replaced in the frame, and placed so as to receive bottom heat ;
this is only applicable to those which are started early in the
season, those started later will answer without so much heat
during their growth ; it is well to shade them, and there is
no place in which they flourish better than in a late vinery.

When the plants are four or five inches in length, they should
be stopped in order to cause them to break freely, and when it
becomes necessary, they should be tied out ; they may, when they
show flower, be brought into the conservatory or drawing-room,
where their profusion of bloom will not fail to excite admira¬
tion. When the bloom is over they should be placed in a shady
place, watered two or three times in order to induce the tubers
to swell, then cut down, and the pots laid on their sides under
a stage where they will obtain not a lower temperature than
35° or 40°.

Mauve Queen is thus described in the Proceedings of the
Royal Horticultural Society, from the Floral Committee of
which body it has received a first-class certificate : — “ A fine and
Showy, large-flowered variety, the flowers of which measured
three inches across and were of a crimson-purple, somewhat
redder about the eye, and thickly spotted below the eye with
crimson dots on yellow ground. The flowers were larger than
those of longifiora major , more richly marked about the edge,
and of remarkable substance, rendering it a most desirable ad¬
dition to this family.”

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Plate 125.

POMPON DAHLIAS.

Dahlia superjlua , var.

Under the title of Pompon or Lilliputian Dahlias, there
have been lately introduced to our gardens some varieties of
this popular flower, which bid fair to be a great ornament, and
very useful for cutting for bouquets, a purpose for which the
ordinary kinds of Dahlias are, from their large size, unfitted.
The Royal Horticultural Society, considering them worthy of
cultivation, offered special prizes for them, grown in pots, a
purpose for which we believe them to be quite unsuitable ; a
collection of cut blooms of the best varieties in cultivation was
however shown by Mr. John Cattell, of Westerham; and from
them those which we now figure were selected for illustration.

The following notes, supplied to us by Mr. Heale, the intel¬
ligent foreman of Mr. Cattell, will be found interesting : — “Lilli¬
putian Dahlias, like fancy Pelargoniums, seem to have sprung
up suddenly and without any precise data, as to where they
originated, although I imagine they owe their origin to the
German florists, for it is from them at present we get our new
varieties. They are of easy culture, requiring light rich soil ;
this makes the flower more double; but I do not find that rich¬
ness of soil, or rank growth, affect the size of the flower to any
perceptible degree. The only objection to them is their tall
habit of growth,* many of the varieties reaching four or five
feet, and some even six feet, making them quite out of place in
the flower-garden, unless pegged down; the flowers, like all
Dahlias, are produced in the greatest profusion. The only
variety adapted for bedding is a beautiful white, named Pearl ,
although this is almost too large a flower to be classed as a
Lilliputian ; this variety is of very dwarf habit, not growing

* It is for this reason we believe them to be unsuitable for pot culture.

more than eighteen inches high, and the flowers are very pure
in colour. When the hybridizer has been enabled to reduce
the height of this interesting class, nothing will be more beau¬
tiful than beds of the individual colours, as there is a character
and richness of appearance, combined with elegance, almost in¬
describable.”

W e subjoin, from the same authority, the names of a few of
the best, varying in height from three to four feet: — Gold Phea¬
sant, yellow, edged, and tipped with salmon-red. Beinishman ,
buff and salmon-yellow, bronze edge. Little Valentine , reddish
crimson, flushed and tipped with white. Bijou , shaded rose,
tipped with violet-crimson. Hebe , rich, deep amaranth-rose.
Little Philip , creamy buff, edged with rosy pink. Little I) or rit,
rich rose-shaded crimson. Tom Tit , bluish lilac, edged ' and
tipped with violet-purple. Little May , richly tinted maroon-
crimson. Little Mistress , rich violet self-purple. Little Barling ,
bright amaranth-rose. Pearl , pure white (eighteen inches high).
Little Phoebus , rich blush, tipped with violet-crimson. Goldfinch ,
rich golden yellow, bronze centre. Br. Webb , rich scarlet. Star,
orange, tipped with scarlet. Fairy Nymph, clear rosy lilac.
Little Kate, small, velvety, purplish crimson ; and Little While-
mine, blush, with rosy pink.

Of these we have figured, Little Whilemine (fig. 1), blush,
tipped with rosy pink ; Little Barling (fig. 2), a bright amaranth-
rose, of exquisite shape, — a miniature Lord Berby, — and Little
Philip (fig. 3), reflexed in shape, a pretty creamy buff, edged
with rosy pink.

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Plate 126.

NEW VARIEGATED JAPANESE HONEYSUCKLE.

Lonicera reticulata *

Amongst the treasures sent home by that distinguished tra¬
veller Mr. P. Fortune, during his recent visit to Japan, was the
very beautiful Honeysuckle which, under the above name, has
been exhibited during the past season at both the Boyal Botanic
and Boyal Horticultural Societies, and in each case received
from them the highest award, a first-class certificate ; and to
Mr. Standish, in whose possession it is, we are indebted for the
opportunity of figuring it. It was, when shown by him, grown
on a trellis, and had a very ornamental appearance, but as the
plants had been for some time in heat, and been closely cut for
propagation, its full beauty, we doubt not, was not even then
appreciable.

To Mr. Fortune we are indebted for the following brief notice :
— “ This fine Honeysuckle was found by me, in gardens, near
Yedo, the capital city of Japan. It is a very ornamental plant,
and is much prized by Japanese amateurs and gardeners; the
light-green of its leaves, covered all over with a network of
golden veins, somewhat like an Ansectochilus, renders the plant
singularly attractive and beautiful. In Japan it produces a
pretty effect when trained over trellis-work, or allowed to
ramble on the ground like our common English Vinca , or Peri¬
winkle. It will probably prove quite hardy in this country,
and will, I think, be useful in cool greenhouses and conserva¬
tories.”

The question which will most determine its value is its hardi-

* Although it has been figured under a different name, and advertised by
M. Verschaffelt as a variegated variety of L. brachypoda , ve have preferred to
retain the name under which it has been distributed to the public by Mr.
Standish.

ness, and if, as we heard some eminent plant-growrers assert the
other day, it be a variety of L. brachypoda , it wTill probably
prove as hardy, in which case it will be a great acquisition, and
doubtless, when planted in a cool situation, the colouring will
be much more vivid than it has yet been seen in Europe ; it is
very free in its habit of growth, and easily propagated, so that
we doubt not that in a short time it will find its way into most
gardens. Mr. Standish is now sending it out.

As exhibited by Mr. Standish, it formed a very pretty trellis
plant, the stems when ripe being of a deep red colour ; the
leaves are of two kinds, some being deeply cut, somewhat
similar to an oak, while others are simple (this we believe is
also characteristic of L. bracJiypoda). In the figure they are
drawn of the natural size, viz. about two and a half inches long
by two inches in breadth, and are of a bright lively green, veined
in every direction with golden yellow, and in its natural growth
the midrib is of a bright carmine ; so that it will be readily
seen how very ornamental it will be when well grown in a
sheltered position, in the open air.

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Plate 127.

THE LARGER GLITTERING NERINE.

Nerine corns ca major .

Under this name we have figured, through the kind per¬
mission of Charles Leach, Esq., of King’s Road, Clapham (now
so well known, as the successful grower of Disa grandiflora and
of Cape bulbs in general), a very desirable flowering bulb, and
have by him been kindly supplied with the following information
relative to it : —

“ About fifteen years since, among a parcel of bulbs which
were sent to me from the Cape, were about a dozen, the
size of a Snowdrop, with the name of Nerine flexuosa. The
bulbs, being small, were planted perhaps six in a pot, and
when their leayes were fully grown, I noticed that those of
one of the little bulbs were quite unlike those of the others,
and I separated it from them at the re-potting time in the
ensuing autumn, and then grew it by itself for three or four
years until it came into flower, when, looking into Mr. Loudon’s
work on bulbous plants, I concluded it to be the Nerine corusca
figured there. At the same time that I was nursing this, I was
endeavouring to coax into flower also two or three little bulbs,
which Mr. Arthur Henderson had been kind enough to get
for me, supposed to be the true N. corusca. A year or two
afterwards, when these, instead of increasing in size to that
of N. Sarniensis , or common Guernsey Lily, as the Cape bulb
had done, had gone off into almost innumerable offsets, I
at length obtained a bloom, very like in colour and character
to the Cape bulb, but far inferior to it in all its dimensions,
certainly not half its size.”

“ On referring to Herbert’s 4 Amaryllids,’ I saw that the Dean
described 4 corusca ’ as spawning too abundantly ; and as the
two or three little bulbs I received from Mr. Henderson fully

answer this description, having multiplied already into a good
round hundred or more, seldom flowering, and remaining al¬
ways very diminutive, there is no doubt of their being the
N. corusca of Herbert ; and mine I have distinguished as 6 co-
rusca major! a character it is well entitled to, not alone for
the superior size of its flower, but for that also of its bulb
and leaves, which latter exceed greatly in width all the other
Nerines that I possess, and which are so unlike that of the
spawning variety, that if species were determinable by leaves,
my variety ought to be a new one.

“ To the above there only remains to be added, that the
increase of my variety is now by offsets, at about the rate of
the Guernsey Lily ; and that it is grown in the same house as
my Disas, Brunsvigias, etc, ; that is, it has a temperature in win¬
ter from 35° to 45°, with plenty of air when weather permits.”

Of the great beauty of the flower we think there cannot be
a second opinion, and its points of superiority to the older
variety have been clearly put by Mr. Leach. As, like its con¬
geners, the bloom is produced before the leaves make their
appearance, we have not been able to accompany the illus¬
tration with a figure of them, but, as our object is to direct
attention to it as an ornamental plant, very desirable for con¬
servatories in the autumnal months, that is a matter of com¬
paratively little moment. We can, however, corroborate Mr.
Leach’s statement from bulbs in our own possession, which he
most kindly favoured us with. It flourishes in good yellow loam
with a fair admixture of sand.

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Plate’ 128.

MATJYE-COLOTJKED NOLANA.

Nolana atriplicifolia , var. subccerulea.

The pretty bell-shaped floAvers, Nolana , are well known to all
who admire and cultivate the numerous tribe of annuals which
are so extensively grown, especially in small gardens ; and the
variety which we now figure is a pleasing addition to them,
wTiich we are, through the kind permission of Messrs. Carter
and Co., enabled to figure in our present illustration.

We learn from them that it originated in their seed-farm
about seven years ago. It being their habit to growT species of the
same genera near to one another, it will of course sometimes
happen that through the means either of bees or moths, or other
agencies, hybridization takes place ; and when any plant of merit
appears amongst them it is immediately selected, and then
grown for some years in order to ascertain if it keeps its cha¬
racter permanently, and if it do so, it is then brought forward.
It was in this manner that the present variety was originated,
and it will be welcomed as a very delicately-coloured addition
to this elegant class of annuals.

There was exhibited at the June show of the Uoval Horti-

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cultural Society, by Messrs. Veitch and Son, another Nolana ,
called lanceolata , which promises to be a showy plant, having
the usual trailing habit of the tribe, with large blue flowers,
and apparently of a vigorous style of growth : it received a
bronze medal. The one we now figure has the same trailing
habit, but with pale mauve-coloured flowers, which are pro¬
duced in great profusion.

We remarked in our last number on the very large quantity
of annuals grown by Messrs. Carter for the purpose of meeting
the wants of their customers in all quarters of the globe ; in so
doing, our remarks may have led some to suppose that when we

spoke of many being grown by the Sardinian correspondent of
Messrs. Barr and Sugden, it may have meant that they wrere
so grown for the Messrs. Carter. Such is not the case, as his
growth is, wre believe, exclusively appropriated to the former
firm. Our intention was to show that the demand was so great
that many growers were engaged in a somewhat similar work to
that for which the Holbom firm has been for so many years
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