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The following curious table will interest many of the readers of the Horticulturist : 



"ScJiubler and Kohler have made many interesting observations on odors as well as 



colors. They found that, of the various colors of flowers, some are more commonly 



odoriferous than others, and that some colors are more commonly agreeable than others. 



Color. 



White 



Yellow - - - - 



Red . - - 



Blue - - . - 



Violet ... 



Green - - - - 



Orange ... 



Brown - - - - 



The white most odoriferous and agreeable, the yellow and broisn most disagreeable." 

 We could profitably employ many pages with further extracts, did not imperative 

 demands on our space prevent. The portion of country especially included in this 

 most valuable Flora, which occupies a large portion of Professor Darby's laborious 

 work, is from latitude 30° to 35° north, longitude 80° to 90° west from 

 London, including South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and parts of North Carolina, 

 Florida, and Mississippi — a section of country of the highest interest to the Bota- 

 nist. It will answer as a text-book equally for all the Southern States, including as 

 it does four great Botanical regions : the mountainous regions of the north, the coast 

 region on the east, the partially tropical region on the south, and the upland or 

 plane region of the middle portion. In short, no more important manual can be 

 recommended to the lover of information and the seeker after knowledge in this 

 department of natural history. 



TWO NEW SPIRAEAS. 



BY P. BARRY, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. 



The following new species have bloomed repeatedly with us this season, and we are 

 therefore encouraged to speak of them as valuable additions to our list of hardy 

 flowering shrubs : 



Spircea Fortunei, or Callosa. This was noticed briefly in the last volume of the 

 Horticulturist, page 328, in an extract from the " Gardeners' Chronicle." It is a 

 Chinese species introduced by Mr. Fortune, in habit it resembles the S. bella; the 

 young leaves are reddish, and the flowers are produced in large coiymbs, of a rich 

 purplish red, or a blood red, color, quite showy. It has been represented in Eng- 

 land as "too apt to form leaves rather than flowers," but it is quite free from this 

 defect here. Our warm July weather seems to suit it, for it blooms in the greatest 

 profusion. 



Sjnrcea Billardi. This is a hybrid variety, between salici/olla and Douglassi, 

 produced by M. Billard, a nurseryman at Fontenay aux Roses in France. It has 

 much the appearance of Douglassi in foliage. Its flowers, which are of a bright 

 rose color, are produced in showy panicles, first at the extremities of the branches 

 and afterwards in the axils of the upper leaves, continuing a long time, pe 



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