Plate 420. 

 ALLAMANDA WA*RDLEANA. 



A fierce and strong battle has been waged during the last 

 season with regard to the different Allamandas in cultivation, 

 not only as to which was the best, but as to their identity. 

 Into the merits of this controversy it is not our intention to 

 enter, especially as they are now in course of trial at the Royal 

 Horticultural Society's Gardens at Chiswick. We have only 

 to bring under notice one which for its qualities is likely to be 

 a general favourite, and which has been exhibited by INIr. Ranley 

 Tanton, of the Epsom Nurseries, to whom we are indebted for 

 the following remarks : — 



"The plant was introduced from New Granada, and is as 

 distinct from all other species as possible ; with all the art I can 

 bring to bear upon their culture at the present time, Schoftii, 

 Cathartica, Grand (flora, Parensis, Auhletii, Nohilis, Ilendcrsonu', 

 are all deciduous and at rest; and in the same stove I have the 

 plant which has been in flower since the 5 th of March last, 

 also some young ones, all in full, glossy, vigorous foliage, and 

 in full flower, as exhibited at the Floral Committee, South 

 Kensington, on Tuesday, December 15th. This even of itself 

 is a sufficient guarantee of its being a distinct species. There 

 were upwards of a hundred blooms on the plant exhibited on 

 the above day, and at this season it is really a desirable plant, 

 for the blooms come in now witli their unusual colour for 

 dinner-table decoration and for cut-flower work. We exhibited 

 the other day a small plant in sixty pots, bearing a flower from 

 the corymb these blooms had previously dropped." 



We need add nothing to the above, remarking only that the 

 deeper colour of the throat and the deep maroon colour of the 

 outer side of the flower marks its distinctiveness, — but simply 

 that the small outline figure is a correct representation of one 

 of the young plants. 



