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scarcely constituted, we thought, so good a feature as usual. We would 

 describe some of the newer and better kinds here ; but as we intend to 

 pay the different Rose establishments a cursory visit early next month, 

 we have preferred postponing our description till that occasion, when 

 we hope to have more time to inspect them, and therefore a greater 

 chance of doing them justice. 



Among new plants the most important, in our opinion, was the 

 Woolly Clematis, which happily forms the subject of our present plate. 

 Messrs. Standish and Noble also showed a pale variety of it, which will 

 be an acquisition, producing as it does that great desideratum, an 

 agi-eeable variety of colour. Of Begonias, of which everybody knows 

 the value in winter and early spring, Messrs. Henderson sent one 

 named Xanthina, whose leaves, independent of the flowers, are very 

 handsome. The same firm had also Tropseolum incisum, which looks 

 as if it might be a good plant. It is something in the way of the old 

 Nasturtium. Mr. E. G. Henderson sent some excellent Gesneras and 

 Achimenes. Among the latter the odd-named kind " Sir Trecherne 

 Thomas " proves to be a really handsome variety. Mr. James Veitch, 

 of the Exotic Nursery, King's-road, Chelsea, showed a large and line 

 plant of Veronica variegata. Among other novelties were Cheiranthera 

 linearis, of which, though a good blue, we must see more before it can 

 be recommended with certainty. Echites Pellieri appeared to be a 

 shrubby species, and if so it may become a plant of some importance. 

 The flowers are clear yellow, and handsome. 



As regards Rhododendrons, as much interest seem.s to be evinced 

 about the new kinds from l^ootan, shown by ]\Ir. E. G. Henderson, as 

 there was a year or two ago about those from Sikkim. The following 

 is Mr. Henderson's account of six of them. 



R. Niittalli. — This, the largest-flowered Rhododendron known, has 

 foHage handsomer than described in books on living plants now in 

 this country ; the flowers resembling those of the Lily, are much 

 larger than the Sikkim Rhododendron Dalhousise. Colour, white, 

 with tint of rose-red, and yellow at the base within, and delightfully 

 fragrant. It has been named in compliment to the veteran botanist 

 and traveller, T. Nuttall, Esq. 



R. Windsori. — This splendid-coloured garden Rhododendron, of a 

 colour even surpassing the Rhododendron arboreum, will be found in- 

 valuable, from its dwarf close-gi'owing habit and large truss. 



R. Camelliceflorum. — A very curious species, discovered m the valley 

 of Lablung, also on the Bootan Alps ; at the latter place growing at an 

 elevation of 9,000 to 12,000 feet. In foliage it resembles R. Mad- 

 deni ; 3 to 5 inches long. Corolla, sparingly scaly, 1 \ inch across ; of 

 a very thick texture ; pure white, with a faint rosy tinge ; all the 

 segments obtuse and entire ; the flower strongly resembling that of a 

 single Camellia, from which its name is derived ; a very distinct flower 

 from any other Rhododendron. 



R. Jenkinsi. — This species, according to a specimen without flower 

 or fruit, in the herbarium of Sir W. Hooker, was found by the 

 late Mr. Griffith, on the Khasya Hills. As a species, it is alHed to 

 R. Maddeni, of Dr. Hooker ; and these, along with R. sparsiflorum, R. 



