NOTICES OF NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



a glance to which of the arts any given subject was best fitted, and prevent a painter tak- 

 ing one that was more suited, or perhaps only suited to a poem; or a sculptor attempting 

 to illustrate, by his chisel, one that required the superior resources of painting to express. 

 Many failures have had their source in ignorance or inattention on this head. There are 

 necessary limitations to each of the arts: their scope is various. Painting is more confin- 

 ed than poetry, and sculpture than either. Of the five several arts, poetry is the most ex- 

 cellent — the most comprehensive: the poet has the longest line, the widest range. Ideas 

 can be expressed in poetry, that cannot be adequately expressed otherwise, — by any other 

 of the arts. S. H. 



NOTICES OF NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



I. Fortune's Cape Jasmine.— ( Gardenia Florida.y&r. Fortaniana.') — Very few green- 

 house plants, introduced within the last five years, Avill bear comparison with this superb 

 new Gardenia, brought from China by Mr. Fortune. In the first place, the plant is one 

 of the finest green-house shrubs, with noble broad leaves, each four to six inches long. 

 In the second place, the flowers, which are very large — of the size of the largest Camel- 

 lia, resemble those of the double White Camellia, both in form and purity of color; and 

 in the last place, they are deliciously fragrant. "We notice that Messrs. Parsons & Co., 

 of Flushing, advertise this unrivaled Gardenia for sale this autumn. 



II. Large Red Escallonia. — (^jEscallonia macrantha.) — One of the most ornamental 

 evergreen shrubs, a native of Chiloe — hardy about Baltimore, and likely to prove a most 

 valuable " bedding-out" plant for the flower garden farther north. The flowers are 

 borne in terminal panicles, are large and showy, and of a deep crimson red color. It 

 blooms from June to October, most abundantly. The leaves are elliptical, and doubly ser- 

 rated. " No garden where ornamental plants are esteemed" — says the periodical just 

 quoted, " ought to be without this Escallonia. In Devonshire it is hardy. In a cold con- 

 servatory it would form a splendid bush, and moderate sized plants, grown in pots, would 

 be very useful for purposes of decoration. It may be multiplied to any extent by cuttings 

 of the young shoots, planted under hand glasses, in sandy soil; the young plants requir- 

 ing the protection of a frame in winter." 



III. The Slender Deutzia. — (Deutzia Gracalis.^ — Those of our readers already in 

 possession of that charming hardy shrub, the Deutzia Scabra, will welcome with plea- 

 sure a new, equally beautiful, and more airy species — with long white flowers, borne in 

 slender panicles. This species, very lately introduced from Japan, grows about three 

 feet high, with a slightly pendant habit in the branches — the leaves only about an inch 

 long — the flowers a delicate paper white — blooming in May. It grows readily from cut- 

 tings, and delights in a rich light loam. 



IV. The Double Flowering Horse Chestnut. — (^Aesculas Hippo, fl. plcno.) — We 

 do not know whether this rare and beautiful lawn tree may yet be had in this country, 

 but it is grown for sale by Mr. Thomas Rivers, nurseryman, Sawbridgeworth Herts, 

 England, who deals largely with America. The tree grows to a large size, and is much 

 like the common horse chestnut, but when in bloom it presents a far more beautiful ap- 

 pearance, the flowers being so double as to resemble a good deal thost of the double pink 

 Hyacinth. The tree flowers when quite young, and is readily propagated by graft 

 the common species. We copy the engraving from the Gard. Mag. of Botany. 



