

THE VEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



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great deal. Weoopy the following descrip- 

 tion i'voi n "Paxton's Flower Garden:" — 

 •• Among ill the plants exhibited in the 

 garden of Hu> Horticultural Society laajl 

 M:iv, none excited suob universal in- 

 terest :>•< tkat now represented. it 

 formed a small umbrella-like creeper 

 trained over trellis, the whole olroum- 

 i (erenoe of whioh waa Loaded with pan- 

 dulous racemes of most beautiful large 

 yellow and crimson flowers. The plant 

 was sent to Messrs. Veitoh, «■(' Exeter, 

 from tin- Mysore country, whioh it in- 

 habits, as its namo indicates. No doubt 



it is the ''"st hot bouse climber that h:is 

 boon introduced for man] years, it is 

 added, that before the plant is out of 

 bloom, the pendulous flower-stalks are 

 from two to two and a half feel Urn 



Spircn tjrani!itlor<i Lar$fflo% 

 rca. Nat, order Rosacea, (See Figure,! 

 — This remarkable plant was Bent bj Mr, 

 Fortune, under the name of Amelei 



roesmOM, from the north of China : ami 



it la certain that its conspicuous, largo 

 Bowers cannot fail to recommend it a-* a 

 very desirable, ornamental, and shrub* 

 borv plant. The habit and foliage are 



that of an Amolanohoir : but the strue- 



ture of the flowers point to the .conns 

 Spiraea. The calyx-tube is remarkable 



in form, much contracted below, then 



suddenly at the narrow faux expanded 

 and recurved, and the whole lined with 

 i fleshy disc, at the end of which tho 

 fifteen stamens are inserted in threes. 

 Tho species is extreme!* different from 

 any hitherto described. — I . .- Be* 



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from Western Himalaya, at an elevation 



of from fivo thousand fits hundred to seven 

 thousand Ave hundred feet above the level 

 of the soa. and a verj desirable shrub for 

 •• English" gardens, where it requires tho 

 protection of a wall*— flowering from tho 

 beginning of February until May, and 

 scenting tho air around with its fragrance. 



lb m uiruov— -A shrub from twelve to 



fourteen foot high; branches opposite ob- 

 tusely tetragonal, tho younger ones den 

 covered with tawny or ferruginous down. 

 Leaves on woolly petioles, one quarter of 



an inch long, ovato or oblong, tho loWSC 



onos oerdate at the base, apper eats 



