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THE liATK WINTER, ETC. ETC. 



know and bavc admired the beautiful low-growinjj, annual plant, Clintonia pulchella. 

 In M. \'M\ lloutte's Flor. dcs Serves, there are rn!:ure(l three i)retty varieties ; they 

 are of simihir j^rowth, size, and habit, as tlic abovc-Uiimed species, the dilfereneo 

 is in the flowers. Yar. o : the flowers are blue, with a hirfrc w/iile centre, tinired 

 witli yellow at the eye. Yar. b : the flowers are ir/tite, tinj^a'd at the eye with 

 yellow. Yar. c : the flowers are of a violet color, with a larp:e white centre, tinjrcd 

 at the eye with yellow. They arc very distinct varieties, neat and pretty. The 

 Clintonia pulchella differs from the C. elegans ])rincipally by the ripper lubes of 

 the blossom, which are divergent, and not contiguous. 



AnDisiA SiEBOLDii. — Tliis very handsome species was introduced from China 

 by Dr. Siebold. It is a graceful shrubby plant ; the leaves arc about five inches 

 long, notched, of a shining green. It blooms in profusion, and produces a pro- 

 portionate mass of brilliant scarlet berries ; even small plants, not more than a 

 foot high, arc almost covered with these splendid ornaments, and which continue 

 in perfection during the entire winter and spring. It is one of the most valuable 

 plants for decoration of the stove, conservatory, etc., we possess. Plants may be 

 had at 21s. each. 



Camellia Jenny Lind. — Messrs. Henderson and Son gave £200 to Mr. 

 Makenzie, of Philadelphia, in America, for the stock of this variety. The form 

 of the flower is most erquisite ; the arrangement of the petals to the very centre 

 is perfection itself forming a true half globe ; white, streaked with rosy pink. The 

 present price is from 21s. to Gos. per plant. 



Begoxia picta. — This beautiful new species has been introduced into England 

 by Messrs. Low & Co., of Clapton Nursery. The foliage is exceedingly orna- 

 mental, and the plant forms a neat, dwarfish bush, having large leaves. The leaf- 

 stalks and under part of the young foliage are thickly clothed with short, bright 

 red hairs. The upper side of the leaves are a velvety green, with ^frosted, white 

 zone in the centre ; sometimes the frosted white extends so near the edge as only 

 to leave a narrow margin of green ; the under side of the leaves is of a purple- 

 red color, extending from the stalk half-way through, the remainder of the leaf 

 being green, margined with red. — Cottage Gardener. 



THE LATE WINTER, &c. &c. 



BY YARDLEY TAYLOR, LOUDON COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 



The effect of the late severe winter being now, in some measure, apparent, it 

 may not be amiss to compare its effects in different localities. We can hardly 

 account for the effect produced on trees and plants here, from the degree of cold 

 indicated by the thermometer, unless we allow something for the long continuation 

 of the cold weather. No thermometer was seen, in this locality, lower than 13'^ 

 below zero ; mine was seen only at 8^ below. But I cannot help thinking they 

 have been lower than this. Soon after New Year's day, the wind blew for seve- 

 ral days from the northwest, and was very cold ; the morning of the "Ith, my 

 thermometer was 2^ below zero, at sunrise, but, I may observe that, as my situa- 

 tion is much sheltered from the west, the thermometer here does not fall as low as 

 at other places in the neighborhood. On the morning of the 9th, it was again 2° 

 below, and did not rise, during the day, to more than about L5° above. The wind 

 having ceased blowing from the northwest, it began, about noon, to blow from 

 the south, and continued about 24 hours to blow moderately from that quarter. 

 A southerly wind following a cold one from the northwest, is always, for the fi 

 urs, more piercing and unpleasant than the other, being accompanied 



