will lilooin the season of importation. I had in flower, last Juno, twenty vanotics of 

 color among one luuKlred jilants that were growing on English soil, near London, tlie 

 2d of May, These one Iniiidicd jilaiits went tlirough last summer's droutli and tliis 

 winter's cold, without any iiroteetion, unscorched and uninjured, though the thermom- 

 eter here fell to 14° below zero. 



But by far the most desirable variety for this latitude, is the Hybrid Cafawbicnse, 

 the names and colors of which I annex.* One liundred blooming plants, in twenty- 

 eight varieties of color, can be imported for £10 (^^SO), the majonty with buds, ati<l 

 averaging two feet in height. There is nothing finer in England than a large bed of 

 these twenty-eight varieties of color all in bloom. They are free-growing and free- 

 blooming, having a good foliage, and withstanding our severest cold in the most 

 exposed situation. 



If nurserymen would only import tliese varieties in quantities, and sell them at 

 twenty-five, fifty, or one hundred per cent, profit, instead of three hundred or more, 

 I am satisfied that their general introduction ' would take place. Or, if gentlemen 

 would simply write to England, and import them direct, as the stubborness of our 

 nurserymen has compelled me to do for many years, they would find very little trouble 

 and very great gratification. A complete set of Dr. Hooker's Sikkim Khododendrons, 

 eighteen, I think, can be imported for £3 ('^15), though in Mr. Prince's catalogue 

 they are priced $5 apiece. 



I agree with Mr. Mlxx in his prediliction for the Malionia, though witli me it is 

 very ragged and shabby all winter; but I would decidedly place our Kahnia latifolia 

 before it, especially when imported from England. It would be difficult to recognize 

 the English and American plant side by side, though grown from the same seed. In- 

 stead of the loose, straggling growth of our Laurel, the English cultivation renders it 

 close, stocky, and full, so that the wood is entirely coyered by foliage. Bushy plants, 

 two feet high, can be imported at £.3 per 100, and they rarely fail. 



For Mr. Munn's Euonymus, which with me resembles whitey-brown paper by Feb- 

 ruary, I would substitute the Ilex laurifoUa, which,- with a broad leaf, between the 

 Camellia and English Laurel, appears as hardy as an Arbor Yitae. For two winters I 

 have had six plants, facing due south, with no protection, and they have gone through 

 untouched. The foult, perhaps, of the plant is, that it resembles too much our Kalmia 

 to make much distinction in plantations, though the foliage is darker. The Ilex lati- 

 folia is still more beautiful, but not so hardy ; it gets more or less cut up, without 

 protection, — not more so, however, than the Malionia. There is a variety of Euonymus 



Elegans — white, green spots. 



Alhum. 



Grandiflorum — ^blush, changing to wliite. 



Aucuhafolium. 



Azureum—a. distinct and beautiful color. 



JSicolor — rose, with distinct white spot on upper petals. 



C celestinura — blush. 



Pictum — yellow eye. 



Grandiflorum, 



Cmruleacens. 



Candidisdimvm, 



Delicati-'ixhnum — delicate blush, changing to white. 



£rerexfiannm—\iHc, prettily spotted and fringed. 



Flore plena — very good for a double flower. 



Finiljriatum. 



Glorioxum — large, blush. 



Grandiflorum — rose, superb. 



rurpiireun eUgans — fine purple. 



Perspicuum — clear blush. 



Pallidum. 



Roseum elfgans. 



Pictum — rose, with yellow eye. 



Piibriim. 



Splendens — fine rose. 



Speciomm. 



Gutliitum — clear white, distinctly spotted. 



Kivaticum — pure white, yellow eve. 



