a dash of wild flavor, like thnt of our Frost Grapes. But I am told they are sweet aud 

 rich, when fully ripe." 



It is clearly worth some pains to get these California grapes into our gardens. Ed. 



NOTES ON NEW OR SCARCE PLANTS, 



IlABROTnAMNUS C0IITMB03US. — The Corymb-floivered Habrothamnus. This plant is 

 an erect, much-branched shrub, with somewhat herbaceous stems, and alternate, large, 

 ovate-lanceolate leaves, attached to the stems by a shoot-stalk. Towards the ends of the 

 main branches smaller ones are produced, each of 

 which is terminated by a corymb of flowers. 

 The flowers are funnel-shaped, gradually widen- 

 ing upwards, then contracting, having a pitcher- 

 shaped appearance; the limb is divided into five 

 long narrow segments, which become reflexed. 

 These flowers which are produced in profusion, 

 are of a deep rose color, and very ornamental. 



This species is a native of Mexico; and has ''^^^il^HiOiiy /* '^ \Mi^>* 



flowered in the Koyal Botanic Garden of Kew, /^^^m^^fzzl. VaL) irC^Ly' 



to which it was sent by Mr. Low, of the Clapton 

 nursery. It is a plant of very rapid growth, re- 

 quiring only the protection of the green-house in 

 the winter season, and in summer thriving fieely 

 in the open air. Plants of this nature require to 

 be well attended when young, to cause them to 

 produce a sufficient number of shoots to form a 



handsome plant; and they ought not to be plant- ^'Ae Corymb-Jlowered Habrothamnus. 



ed in a soil and situation too much conducive to vigorous growth; for rapid growing plants 

 of this half-fleshy character are found to thrive better when the development of them is 

 not too freely induced by stimulants of this kind. A large plant of this kind would doubt- 

 less make a good display in the flower garden, as a single plant; and when so required, it 

 must be planted out as early in the season as possible, to be safe from frost. 



It belongs to the natural order of Solanacese; and in the Linnasan arrangement to Pen- 

 tandria monogynia. — Hort. Mag. 



Anemone Japonica. — The Japanise Wind-Flowcr. This is a very vigorous growing 

 herbaceous perennial, of great beauty. It has the kind of compound, ternate lobed leaves, 

 possessed by many of the Anemones, but in this case they are large, and coarse, and un- 

 equally serrated on the margin. It grows two feet high, or more, and has purplish-red 

 flowers, scarcely inferior to those of the Chrj-^santhemum, or the Poppy Anemone of the 

 East : they are, indeed, not unlike a small semi-double Dahlia bloom, and are fully as 

 large as a small Dahlia. Its degree of hardiness is not yet ascertained, but it is expected 

 to bear the severity of our winters, — and if so, will prove a most valuable addition to har- 

 dy border flowers. It flowers in September and October; and was introduced by the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, who received it from their collector, Mr. Fortune, in 1844. Mr. For 

 tune met with it at Shanghae, the Japanese port of China. 



According to Dr. Siebold, it inhabits damp woods on the edges of rivulets, on a moun 



