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female plants were in flower, and then it proved quite effectual. But in the second 

 year our male plants flowered at the same time as the females, and there was no 

 need to store the pollen, it was taken off and applied at once. This difficulty, 

 therefore, we conclude will vanish ; we have hut to treat the male aucuba as a 

 hardy plant, and it will give no further trouble. The golden varieties of Euonj-mus 

 do certainly tend to run out, and that is a misfortune. In all our travels we have 

 never seen large specimens of these shrubs, but small ones are plentiful. We can 

 only keep it true for employment in the plunging system by constantly propagating, 

 so in July or August every year we put in lots of cuttings. The newest vai'iety, 

 called latifolia, is not only more showy than the old golden-leaved Jnponica, but is 

 less given to retrogression. Its tone of yellow is not near so rich and striking as 

 that of the older plant, but then its green tones are lighter and its yellow variegation 

 is diffused over the whole plant. For all the variegated plants that do best in poor 

 soil we save a heap of the exhausted stuff turned out of pots, which experience has 

 taught us is, as a rule, the best possible soil in which to grow them. We are much 

 indebted to J. J. for the note ,on Desfontania ; if it should prove to he generally 

 hardy it will be invaluable, but we fear it is only in sheltered places that it will 

 survive an ordinary winter, except perhaps in some few spots in the extreme south- 

 west of the island. One of the most striking and ornamental of the new Japanese 

 shrubs is the thick-leaved Ligustrum coriaceum, which we advise J. J. to obtain, it 

 he does not already possess it.] 



NEW PLANTS. 



[ASSIFLORA GLAUCA (Gard, Chron., 1867, 1070).— Passifloracese. 

 An arborescent species from New Granada, with fine large glaucous 

 green folhige. The flowers are white, succeeded by medium-sized fruit, 

 which is bright yellow when ripe. Will probably do well in a cool 

 greenhouse. 



Cypripedium Stonei, var. Platyn^vium (Gard. Chron., 1867, p. 1118). — 

 Orchidaceoe. A fine variety of this well-known species, with long and beautifully- 

 spotted petals. 



Acer Frederici Guileli.it (Rev. Sort., 18G7, t. 391). — A heautiful Japanese 

 maple, of a slender growth and spreading habit. The leaves, when young, are of a 

 brownish red, which changes when older to a greenish red, sometimes streaked 

 with rose and white. 



Acer orxatum (Rev. Hort., 1867, 391). — A heautiful deciduous tree, with 

 feathery branches, bearing the leaves en slender petioles. Their divisions are deeply 

 cut, with toothed segments of a dull red, and aiterwards becoming greenish-red. It 

 appears to be the same as the plant with the inconveniently lengthy name of A. pal- 

 matuni dissectum foliis pinnatifidis roscc-pictis ! Native of Japan. 



Clematis Davidiaxa (Rev. Hort., 1867, 90). — Ranunculacea?. A desirable and 

 showy hardy perennial, growing about two and a-half feet high, bearing blue tubu- 

 lose flowers, which are mostly produced in clusters. The more numerous flowers 

 render it superior to C. tuhulosa, to which it is allied. Native of China. 



Lilium auratum rubrum (Rev. Hort., 1867, 371). — Liliacece. A charming 

 variety of this noblest of all lilies, differing from the ordinary form in having the 

 hand of golden yellow on each petal exchanged for a similar band of a rosy red. 



Lilium pseudo-tig-rinum (Rev. Hort., 1867, 411). — A very pretty hardy bulb, 

 quite distinct from L. tigrinum, growing about three feet high, with linear leaves 

 aud solitary flowers of a dull red colour, dotted with small dark brown spots. 



Rhus Osbecki (Rev. Hort., 1867, 111). — Anacardiacece. An elegant shruh of 

 spreading branching habit, with smooth bark, and large leaves. 



Anthukium Geitneriakum (Gartenjlora, t. 540). — Orontiaceaj. A stove peren- 

 nial, with dark green leaves on long petioles, and a spadix, with green leathery 

 spathe, supported on a long scape. 



Clerodendron serotinum (Rev. Hort., 1867, 351). — Verhenacea:. A branched 

 vigorous-habited greenhouse or half-hardy shrub, suitable for tbe summer garden. 

 The flowers are sweet-scented, pure white, with an angular rose-coloured calyx, and 

 are produced in large panicles a foot or more acress. 



