Plate 528. 

 CALADIUM— MONS. BARILLET. 



Among the consequences resulting from the terrible war 

 which has desolated France, is the fact that we shall not be 

 able to receive the usual large assortment of novelties in Phloxes, 

 Eoses, Greraniums, Caladiums, &c. The horticulturists have 

 been either so ruined by the war, or so occupied with the 

 disasters which have befallen their country, that they have had 

 no time to attend to the propagation of their plants. 



We were, however, glad to hear from M. Bleu, to whom 

 we are indebted for so many fine varieties of Caladiums, that 

 his collection has not suffered. They were at rest, and conse- 

 quently would not require the attention they would have done 

 at another season ; but at the same time, he says that he shall 

 be unable to send us any novelties this season ; we have there- 

 fore selected for our illustration Mom. Barillet, named and sent 

 out at the same time as Madame Dombram, and have to thank 

 Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing for allowing our artist to 

 make the drawing. The groundwork of the leaf is green, the 

 midrib and veins brilliant crimson, a large irregular blotch of 

 the same colour occupying the centre of the leaf, and between 

 it and the green a margin of cream-colour gradually shades off 

 into the deep rich ground-colour of the leaf. Those who are 

 growers of this beautiful class of stone foliaged- plants, will 

 not fail to see in the plant now figured a valuable addition 

 to that section of the class to which it belongs. 



