NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS. 



luxuriant growth, and the ends of all the young shoots are loaded with clusters of trum 

 pet or tuber-shaped blossoms, of the finest lake or dark carmine color. Altogether, It 

 may be looked upon as a decided acquisition. 



This species of llabrothamnus has oidy lately been introduced into this country, but it 

 is easily propagated from cuttings, like all the cestracea — to which natural family it be- 

 longs. Young plants in pots, may bo had of Messrs. Buist, of Philadelphia, and Messrs. 

 Hogg or Thorburn, of New- York. 



Macleania cordata. — A fine, green-house, evergreen shrub, growing three to four feet 

 high, bearing opposite, oblong, lanceolated leaves, nearly three inches long, upon smooth 

 upright branches. The flowers are bright red corolla tubes an inch long, with an open 

 mouth of five segments of a 3'ellow color. They are borne at the axils of the terminal 

 roots, and contrasting with the rich evergreen foliage, have a fine effect. This plant be- 

 longs to the natural order Vacciniacae, is a native of Chili, and flowers in summer. 



Lucia Rosea Geranium. — This pretty variety of the dw^arf scarlet geranium, bearing 

 flowers of a fine pink color, has been propagated and disseminated considerably by our 

 leading florists this spring. A bed of it in our own garden has been full of bloom for a 

 month past, and appears to be a valuable budding plant for the parterre. It blooms more 

 freely and abundantly here than in England — where it was originated — probably from the 

 greater abundance of sunshine which both this and the Tom Thumb scarlet, like. It is 

 very easily propagated by cuttings, like the scarlet varieties. 



Bereeris jAPONiCA. — We believe this fine new shrub — the Japanese Berberry, brought 

 from China to England in 1849, by Mr. Fortune, has only just been introduced into the 

 United States, and is not yet off*ered for sale by any of our nurserymen. It is a superb 

 evergreen, with large Mahonic-like pinerated foliage — each leaf more than a foot long. 

 This foliage is of thick leathery texture, and is armed with lateral spines. As it was 

 found 150 miles north of Shanghae, it will undoubtedly prove perfectly hardy here. We 

 believe the flowers are large and yellow, but they have not yet been produced, either in 

 this country or in Europe. 



Ceanothus papillosus, and C. dentatus. — Two beautiful little shrubs of the same 

 general habit as the Jersey Tea, ( C. americanus,') common in our woods, but with globu- 

 lar clusters and panicles of lovely azure blue blossoms, borne profusely all summer, and 

 very ornamental whether grown in pots, in the conservatory, or in the open border. 

 These plants, natives of California, are quite rare and new, having been introduced into 

 England by the collector of the London Horticultural Society, Mr. Hartwig. They have 

 stood the winter in England, and will probably do so here. Rich turfy loam, leaf mold, 

 and silver sand, makes the soil they prefer. 



Petunia — Eclipse. — This, the prettiest of all the new varieties of this popular border 

 flower, we saw in England last year, has been propagated and sold extensively by TiiOR- 

 BURN, of New-York, this season. The flowers are light rose, striped with rich purplish 

 crimson, in the same style as Hebe, but much clearer and richer in the coloring. The form 

 is good — not rag-like and coarse, like some of the new sorts lately sent out. 



Petunias and Verbenas are the most valuable plants in American flower gardens, since 

 they defy the sun — or rather luxuriate and bloom all the more freely in it. Among the 

 best new verbenas of the season are Heroine — a handsome lilac blue — the tresses large and 

 abundantly produced — and St. Marguerite, (a French variety received last year,) with 

 shaded crimson flowers produced in abundance. A dozen new sorts promise well, but we 

 farther experience of their merits, to speak decidedly of them 



