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best that has appeared is the one named " Perfection," a very distinct 

 and handsome plant with large Pansy-like flowers of a bright purplish 

 blue, yellow -eyed, and more strongly fragrant than the reputed 

 parent; but it has so little in common with cornuta, beyond the horn, 

 that there are grounds for questioning the alleged parentage. It is 

 as unlike cornuta in its power of resistance of drought as in most other 

 particulars. During this excessively droughty season it has looked fresh 

 and bloomed profusely, while cornuta has been " done brown " for 

 weeks. Cornuta is a native of the Pyrenees. 



V. lutea — Yellow Mountain Violet. — This is another unsuccessful 

 candidate for parterre honours of recent introduction. It is a native 

 of mountain pastures in Wales and the north of England and west 

 of Scotland. It grows in rather a straggling manner, rising 3 or 4 

 inches high, with weak stems and small oblong egg-shaped leaves. 

 The flowers are bright yellow, with a few black lines radiating from 

 the centre on the lower petals. Although it succeeds better in the 

 majority of dry soils and aspects than V. cornuta, yet it is not so flori- 

 ferous as that species, and has disappointed many in the expectations 

 raised regarding its adaptibility to summer bedding-out when first 

 introduced for that purpose. It is a pretty little gem, creeping over 

 rockwork, or in the front line of a partially-shaded moist mixed 

 border ; but in bright blazing parterres it is eclipsed, and very often 

 burnt up, and does not supply effectively the much - desiderated 

 dwarf bright yellow edging plant. The variety grandiflora has, as 

 its name implies, larger flowers than the ordinary form, and is some- 

 what of an improvement also in the matter of habit being slightly 

 more vigorous. Flowers continuously from May till September. 

 {To be continued.) 



NEW PLANTS OF THE PAST TWO MONTHS. 



With the passing away of the great shows, comes to some extent a 

 diminution of the number of new plants periodically produced. Still, 

 some good things have put in appearance, and of these, first-class certifi- 

 cates have been awarded to the following : Bowenia spectabilis, a re- 

 markably handsome compound-leaved Cycad, from Messrs Veitch «fe 

 Sons; Macrozamia magnifica, a very elegant slender pinnate Cycad 

 from Australia ; and Cycas Broughtoni, another Australian species in 

 the way of C. Armstrongii — both from Mr William Bull ; to Catalpa 

 syringaefolia aurea, a fine bold golden-leaved tree, which was raised 

 from a seedling on the Continent two or three years ago, from Messrs 



