TWO BEAUTIFUL NEW PLANTS. 



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Fig. 61.— The Darle Green Forsythia. 



Ijlant grows very freely from cuttings of 

 she stem, or by dividing the root. 



As yet, this new plant (of which we are 

 indebted for a fine specimen to Mr. Buist, 

 ©f Philadelphia,) has only been grown in 

 pots, and is still very scarce in the United 

 States. But it will doubtless thrive best in 

 the open border, and is likely to be pret- 

 ty widely knov/n t» amateurs by another 

 year. 



II. The Dark Green FoRSYTHiA — (For- 

 sythda viridissima.) This fine new hardy 

 shrub is one of the novelties brought from 

 China to England, by Mr. Fortune, in 

 1846. It was introduced into this country 

 last season, and has flowered finely this 

 spring. The following is Mr. Fortune's 

 account of it : 



" This is a deciduous shrub, with very 

 dark gtQen leaves, which are prettily ser- 



rated at the margin. It grows about eight 

 or ten feet high in the north of China, and 

 sheds its leaves in autumn. It then re- 

 mains dormant, like any of the deciduous 

 shrubs of Europe, but is remarkable for th« 

 number of large prominent buds which are 

 scattered along the young stems, produced 

 the summer before. Early in spring those 

 buds, which are flower buds, gradually 

 unfold themselves, and present a profusion 

 of bright yellow blossoms all over the 

 shrub, which is highly ornamental. 



"I first discovered it growing in the same 

 garden with Wiegela rosea, which I have 

 said in another place belonged to a Chinese 

 mandarin, on the island of Chusan, and 

 was generally called the " Grotto Garden" 

 by the English. Like the Wiegela, it is 

 a great favorite with the Chinese, and is 

 generally grown in all the gardens of the 



