NEW I'LANTS. 



should be tnkoii to issue a ri'ivlly tino plant into our gardening world. Tins very plant 

 made a sensation all nvo.r tlio (•(nitincnt this time two years. It had the lirst prize at 

 Brussels for a new plant, in July, 1853, and so everywhere else abroad. Our amateurs, 

 and our trade, paid a high price for it, and now it is, or has been, murdered by " indis- 

 cretion ;" and it is ten to cue if one in ton thousand had taken the least notice of it. It 

 might bo called a soft-wooded greenhouse-plant; but it gets woody, with slender branches 

 and very small leaves, and when covered with its elegant liglit blue flowers it must 

 be one of the prettiest plants anywhere. The exact tint is halfway between the blue 

 !\einophila and our own JV/c»iim chuma'dnjn, with starry white stamens, and the flower 

 is two sizes larger than those of the said Veronica. Every body must have this plant, 

 when it comes to so many pence. It belongs to the same order of plants as the Nemo" 

 phila, Eutoca, and such like. 



Standish and Xoble sent a fine standard plant of Rhododcndruii Dalhousiic, a grafted 

 plant, seven feet high, having had six trusses of blooms, but two of them had fallen off". 

 This extraordinary Jlhododendron blooms like a large Lily, with the scent and colour of 

 MaynoUa grandijiura- Also Azalea crispijlora, a unique kind, from the north of China. 

 It is, by nature, a July-flowering plant. It seems to be a natural species, an evergreen, 

 with large rose-coloured flowers, which are crisped on the edges like a frill ; the habit 

 is dense, the leaves good, but the quality for which I take so much notice of it is as a 

 father, mother, and nurse to an entire new race of evergreen Azalaes, which will bloom 

 out in the open garden just as wtll, and as gay and prolific as the present race do in 

 the greenhouse. This is only a question of time. 



The same firm sent cut flowering-branches of the new Spine grandijlora, another 

 hardy plant for the British garden. They also exhibited, but not in bloom, four species 

 oi Evergreen Berheris, from China and Japan, and all of them are as hardy as our old 

 ones. B. Japonica intermedia, and Beallii, stood the last winter unprotected, but I b( - 

 lieve trifurcata, which is from a different part more westwards in China, was not exposed 

 to the frost. Messrs. Standish and Noble also exhibited a species of Lomaria, from 

 Yaldivia, after the manner of Magdianica, but with paler and broader leaves, not to use 

 the fashionable but most erroneous word, frond, for a Fern leaf ; and my own most 

 favourite evergreen, the Weinmannia tricosperma, also from Valdivia, and, therefore, 

 likely to be hardy. You might pass off the leaves of this beautiful plant for so many 

 Ferns among ordinary mortals, by calling them fronds. They are compound and ])in- 

 nate, just like so many Fern-leaves, the wings or little side leaves are opposite; and the 

 stipules between each pair of leaves are leafy and sawed, just like the rest of the 

 leaves; in fiict, a frond to all intents and purposes. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 



