NEW PLANTS. 



■VARIETIES. 



NEW PLANTS, 



BuDDLElA Crispa. Crisped-leaved Buddlia. — This beautiful plant is from tlie 

 Himalayas, at an elevation of 5500 to 7500 feet above the level of the sea; it bears 

 the winters in England with only the 

 protection of a wall, and flowers from 

 the beginning of February until May, 

 scenting the atmosphere around with 

 its fragrance. 



Description. — A shrub, twelve or 

 fourteen feet high. Branches oppo- 

 site, obtusely tetragonal, the younger 

 ones densely covered with tawny or 

 ferruginous down. Leaves on wooly 

 petioles, ovate or oblong, the lower 

 ones cordate at the base, upper ones 

 cuneate, thick, tomentose, densely so 

 beneath; the margins toothed and 

 crisped, rarely entire, except in the 

 upper leaves. Flowers arranged in 

 capitula, or in dense whorls, consti- 

 tuting spikes or racemes, and forming- 

 panicles. Corolla, salver-shaped, lilac, 

 with a white eye. Stamens four, in- 

 serted below the middle, and quite 

 included; filaments short, anthers 

 short, oblong. Pistil quite included. 

 Ovary ovate, downy, except at the very base. Style very short; stigma clubbed, 

 bifid. 



Uncommon Growth. — There is hanging in our oflBce, the forked bough of an apple tree, 

 each part of ■which measures only 22 inches in length, on which there are one hundred 

 and forty seven apples ! thicker upon the wood than human ingenuity could possibly affix. 

 They are of an average diameter of two and a half inches, and the weight of the branch 

 is 13 lbs. It was cut from a tree on the premises of Mr. John Haley in the western part 

 of the city, and is called the " Anti-Know-Nothing Apple," from its great yield. — . 

 Haven Register. 



