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the frost. The few leaves falling from the fruit 

 trees give sufficient covering now until rooted, 

 after which they will take care of themselves." 



Mammoth Rose Tree. — Mr. O. D. Dryden, near 

 Gilroy, informs us that he has a rose tree, twelve 

 years old, of the Cloth of Gold variety, the stock 

 of which is seventeen inches in circumference. 

 It branches one and a half feet from the ground, 

 and stands about ten feet high, with a spread of 

 top ten feet across. If it were not kept closelj' 

 pruned it would be much larger. — Pacific Rural. 



NEW PLANTK 



Dahlia gracilis. — This is a new species. The 

 common dahlia is improved from D. coccinea, a 

 single scarlet flowered kind. But it has simply 

 pinnate leaves. The leaves of this one are bipin- 

 nate. 



Gladiolus cruextus is a new species intro- 

 duced into England from Natal, and has the ad- 

 vantage of floAvering late in the fall. 



Rhus panaciformis. — A close-growing shrubby 

 plant of elegant character. It has alternate 

 pinnated leaves, with about six pairs of leaflets, 

 which are rounded and unequal-sided at the base, 

 elliptic oblong in outline, and on the young 

 plants about two inches long. The rachis is 

 puberulous, and the leaflets hairy beneath. It is 

 apparently a plant of stocky habits. — W. Bull. 



Rhus RiTfa. — A fine pinnated-leaved shrubby 

 plant of ornamental character. It has erect 

 rusty-barked stems, pinnate leaves a foot long or 

 more, and consisting of about eight pairs of leaf- 

 lets, which are from 3 to 4 inches long, and from 

 an inch to an inch and a half broad, hairy be- 

 neath, oblong-acute, with the base rounded and 

 unequal-sided. The leaves are alternate, the 

 rachis tomentose, of a reddish hue, and the 

 whole plant of a free-growing and elegant habit. 

 — W.Bull. 



Fraxinus longicuspis. — A slender deciduous 

 Japanese tree, with tetragonous branches, whose 

 bark is marked by lenticular warts. It has pin- 

 nate leaves, with two or three pairs of leaflets, 

 which in the mature state are lanceolate with a 

 long acuminate point, but in the young plants 

 are blunt, and sometimes rounded. The inflo- 

 rescence forms an erect terminal or lateral pani- 

 cle. According to Siebold, this is one of the 

 plants on which the wax insect feeds. — W. Bull. 



Wistaria macrobotrys. — This variety, intro- 

 duced from Japan, is of vigorous growth, and ex- 

 ceedingly free flowering, producing fine large full 

 bunches of flowers, of immense length. Tlie 

 foliage is dark green ; the flowers are white, 

 tinted with bluish purple, and very large and 

 fine. It is a most attractive and ornamental 

 plant.— TF. Bull 



Magnolia Campbellii. — "The Magnolia Camp- 

 bellii was discovered by Dr. Griffith in Bhotan ; 

 it is a large forest tree abounding on the outer 

 range of Sikkim, at elevations of 8,000 to 10,000 

 feet, appearing on the road above Pacheem, and 

 thence ascending to the top of Sinchul, 8,000, and 

 Tonglo, 10,000 feet ; though occasionally seen on 

 the central ranges at the same elevations, it is 

 much less frequent. The flowers are produced 

 abundant!}' in April, at the end of all the 

 branches, when the tree is as yet perfectly leaf- 

 less ; they vary from white to deep rose color, or 

 almost crimson, and in size from 6 to 10 inches ; 

 the scent is faint. In May the tree is in full leaf, 

 and the fruit ripens in October, when a few small 

 and often deformed flowers are sometimes pro- 

 duced. The flowering branch drawn in Mr. 

 Cathcart's collection is nearly twice as large as 

 that represented here. Young plants have the 

 leaves perfectly glabrous; those of older trees 

 are more or less silky on the under surface." 



Gymxothrix latifolia a good Centre Plant 

 FOR Flower Beds. — Those who want a good 

 plant for the centre of a bed should use this 

 Grass, not so handsome in its flowers as the Pam- 

 pas Grass, but much handsomer in its foliage 

 and manner of growth. Here it grows over six 

 feet high, with broad deep green leaves, and red- 

 dish-brown knotted stems. It is a more compact 

 grower than the Pampas Grass. — H. N. Ella- 

 combe, Bitton Vicarage, Bristol, [in Garden.) 



Viburnum Awafuki. — This beautiful hardy 

 Japanese shrub is now in splendid condition at 

 Belgrove, Queenstown, the seat of W. E. Gumble- 

 ton, Esq., who describes it as the most brilliantly 

 colored autumnal plant he has ever seen. Many 

 of its leaves are now of a bright rose color. — 

 Record. 



Tamarix plumosa. — Of this plant, M. Carrifere 

 writes as follows in the Reims Horticole : "Nothing 

 can be finer or more graceful than this species, 

 which is still so rare, in spite of the readiness 

 with which it can be propagated. Its numerous, 

 slender branchlets, of a glaucescent green hue, 



