26 THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. [ February, 



acquired, in the French gardens, the epithet of Marabout. Of hardy creepers, 

 adapted for covering walls and buildings, we have the Chinese Anipelopsis 

 dissecta, and the Japanese Arnpelopsis tricuspidata, alias Veitchii, both of slender 

 but rapid growth, the former with palmatisected leaves, having pinnatifid segments, 

 the latter with the leaves simple or three-lobed, the leaves changing to a deep 

 red towards autumn. Arnpelopsis japonica has broader leaves, which assume 

 in dying a brilliant, rich orange-red tint. Vitis heterophylla humulifoha, a 

 deciduous Japanese plant, has three-lobed or five-lobed leaves, and its insignifi- 

 cant flowers are succeeded by cymose clusters of pretty pale blue berries. 



Of the novelties of the hardy herbaceous class, we give precedence to Spiraea 

 palmata, a Japan species, whose bright red stems, palmately lobed serrated 

 leaves, and large heads of deep crimson flowers, render it grandly conspicuous. 

 In the Transylvanian Campanula turbinata, a dwarf erect-growing species, with 

 large, deep purple, bell-shaped blossoms ; and in the remarkably floriferous 

 Campanula isophylla, from the Apennines, with its smaller deeply-cut greyish- 

 blue blossoms and bushy branching habit, we have two very distinct and really 

 handsome species ; while the Dorcoceras hygrometrica, a dwarf herb from 

 Northern China, with the aspect of Eamondia, and purple flowers somewhat 

 resembling those of violets, introduced to the French gardens, promises to be at 

 once hardy and handsome. The Erythronium giganteum (just reintroduced) is 

 also a plant of mark. Of hardy bulbs, LiHum Wilsoni (L. Thunbergianum 

 pardinum of our plate), a Japanese introduction, with large orange-red gold- 

 banded black-spotted flowers, produced in great branched umbels, may be pro- 

 nounced one of the finest species yet known. New annuals are represented by 

 Collinsia corymbosa, a Mexican plant, of dwarf growth, whose flowers bear a grey- 

 blue upper and white lower lip ; and by Leavenworthia aurea, a dwarf Texan 

 crucifer with rosy lilac yellow-eyed flowers, which may be useful for sowing 

 in masses. 



Half-hardy flower-garden plants have received a valuable acquisition in the 

 Gladiolus cruentus, imported from Natal, a strikingly beautiful plant, with 

 almost regular bell-shaped bright red flowers, having peculiar white markings on 

 the two lateral segments of the lower lip. ' 



We have figured some of the acquisitions at the modern subtropical garden. 

 Abutilon Thompsoni proved startlingly beautiful, with its grotesque motley 

 markings of gold and white and green, when planted out in rich soil, and well 

 exposed to light. Iresine Lindeni promises to eclipse the older and better known 

 I. Herb3tii, and has, moreover, this advantage, that its rich blood-red leaves 

 are flat, and not puckered up as in that. Alternanthera amabilis promises to 

 be the best of its family, being richly coloured with an intermixture of rose and 

 orange tints, and of a more robust habit than those previously grown. And 

 finally, a new hybrid Echeveria, E. glauco-metallica, secures by the union a 

 greatly augmented size, superadded to the spathulate leaves, glaucous colour, 



