Plate 519. 



PENTSTEMONS— W. E. GUMBLETON AND 

 STANSTEAD RIVAL. 



The past summer, with its long-continued drought, taxing as 

 it did the energies and resources of our most experienced 

 gardeners, has shown the value of such perennial plants as the 

 Pentstemon, Phlox, and Antirrhinum, which have heeu too 

 much put on one side for the bedding plants, that in so 

 many instances proved last year to be a lamentable failure ; 

 and the experience thus gained will, we hope, lead to their 

 more extended cultivation. 



We are again indebted to Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing 

 for the opportunity of selecting two of their latest novelties 

 from their extensive and varied selection, and in point of colour 

 and closeness of spike they are, especially Standead Bival, an 

 advance on varieties previously figured, the flowers being much 

 closer together, a point which adds materially to their beauty 

 in the garden ; and from the freeness with which spike after spike 

 is produced in the autumn months, this new race of Pentste- 

 mons forms an admirable addition to our autumn gardens. 



W. E. GumbletoH (fig. 1) is a beautiful deep lavender or 

 mauve- coloured flower, of good form and substance ; Stansfead 

 Rival (fig. -2) is a flower of great brilliancy of colour, Jeep scarlet 

 crimson ; the throat is pure white, forming an admirable con- 

 trast to the rich colour of the segments. Both partake of the 

 same close habit of flowering. These, with several other fine 

 varieties, will l)e sent out Ijy Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing 

 in the course of the spring. 



