JOUilNAL OF HOKTICllLilURE Aiit> COf'^Ai^E GARDENER. 



[ April 18, i&i-A. 



from the end of May to the end of July, or begimiing 

 August. — ExpERTo Crede. 



PLANTS IX BLOOM DURING FEBRUARY IN 

 SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 



I {lENERALLY read with interest the Usts of plants m bloom 

 in certain months which appear in your valuable periodical 

 at different times, and thinliiug that a similar list from the 



antipodes maj' not be uninteresting to some of your readers, __ .„,^„ „_.. ^„„ .^„„ 



I append one of those that are now in bloom in my ovni \ formation— and that there was a balance of i;32 6s. OrZ, 



out of situations, and to render assistance to infirm and aj^ed 

 members, held their first annual meeting in theii* Committee- 

 room, at the Retreat, Redland, Bristol, on April 10th, Mr. W. 

 PiDinger in the chair. There was a ";ood attendance. Letters 

 expressive of regret at not being able to attend, aud urgiug 

 members to individual exertion in forwarding the objects of the 

 Society, were received and read from reiiresentatives of South 

 Wales, Liverpool, Manchester, York, Sheffield, and other dis- 

 tricts. The fom*th quarterly report was read, and a printed 

 copy presented to each member. It showed that lUo members 

 had joined the Society during the year — not including the two 

 members who emigi*ated, and the one who has died since its 



hand. 



Ai'dtiina bispinosa 



Abutilons— Due dc Malakoff, Be- 



ranger, Sonvenir de Arogo, 



Striatum, &c. 

 -Vxistolochia sempeniieus 

 Armeria fonnosa 

 Aloy-sia citriodora 

 Acacia homda 

 BougainviUea glabra 

 Eftriena cristata 

 Bouvardia triphylla 

 Campanula pyi-amidali^^ 

 Cypema altemifolius vflriegatue 

 Commelina ccelestis 

 Coreopsis tinctoria 

 Coreopsis lon^'ipe;* 

 Centaurca gymnocai"pa 



Cuphea platycentra 

 Convolvulus mauritanicus 

 Ceanothus hybridub roieus 

 Canterbmy Bells 

 Capparis spinosa 

 Coccoloba platycla^a 



Diaiithus Heddewigii, &c. 

 Euphorbia variegata marginata 



Bojcri 

 Kscallonia rubra 

 Echinoc actus, sp. 

 Eucharidiom 

 Euonymus japonicus 

 Etcremo carpus scaber 

 Eucalyptus calopbylla 

 Fuclibia, various 



Gerauiums — Zoual, fdiigle,and double 

 Gynerium argentenm 

 Gaiilardia graDdifloiu 



Richordsoni 

 Heliotrojre, various 

 Hollyhocks, various 

 Heiichrysum, vars. 

 Habi'othamnuK Hugelii 

 HemerocalUs fnlva 

 Hibibcus hybridus, various 



Rosa-sincnsis gi-andiflora 



sinensis spleudens 



brasiliensis 



flavescens 



a trie anus 



Thuubergi 



Cameroni 



hj-riacus 



Harrisoni, aud othera unnamed 

 Ipomica Leaiii 

 .Tusticia spleudens 

 lochroma gnmdiflora 



tubulosa 

 •Tasminum gi'audifiorum 

 Ipomrca mexicana alba 

 Kerria japonica fl.-pl. 

 Loniccra sinensis 



Lilium sfeciosum pnuctatumi-ubium 

 Linum sibiricum 

 Lantanas. various 



Lophospermum Henderson! 

 j Maurandya, various 

 j Mignonette 

 Marvel of Peni, various 

 Mandeiilla suaveolens 

 Nierembergia fmtesceut; 

 Nerium varie^atura argeuteiun 



double pink 

 Phlox decuhsata 



Dnunniondl 

 Pavonia coccinca 



hastata 

 Plumbago capcunis 



Lai-penta: 

 Pelargonium peltatum 

 Pyrethrum album 

 Poiaciana Gilliesii 

 Petunia, double and single 

 Pentstemon, various 

 Portiilaca 

 Pulygala Pom-tclesii 



luyrtifolia 

 Pasf-Lfloraedulis 



Contessa Clai'a Guiglini 



cfei-ulea 



alba 



Loudon! 

 Rassellia jimcea 

 Rochea falcata 

 Roses, various 

 Solanum Capsicastrum 



jasminoideri 

 Statice Dioksoni 



arborca macrophjUa 



occidentalis 



Smithii 

 Salria splendens 



coccinea 



amabilis 

 Sollya hetCTOphylla 

 Snapdragon (Antirrhinum) 

 Shortia gossipioides 

 Sprekelia formosa 

 ~ * Osbomi 



The fund is raised by the accumulation of 2s. (5fZ. subscriptions 

 in the form of shares, and twopenny monthly contributions. 

 The following gardeners were appointed officers and members 

 of the Society's Committee for the ensuing year — viz., Mr. W. 

 Pillinger, President ; Mr. J.Butler, Vice-President; Mr. T.Lea, 

 Treasurer; Mr. W. H. Smith, Honorary Secretary. 



garden, merely premising that we have had a terribly severe 

 Bcasou till within a week or so — hotter than I have kno\\'Ti for 

 twenty years, and consequently that many of our best flowers 

 at this season are not just now in bloom. 



I have twice before made a similar Ust at more favourable 

 periods (for this is by no means a florisfs month), but did not 

 forward them, fearing that they might not possess sufficient 

 interest generally. However, I shall occasionally repeat it, so _. 



as to give your readers some idea of the capabiUties of our PORTRAITS OF PLANTS, FLOWERS, AND 



climate. — South Austbalun. FRUITS. 



ToDEA BARBARA (Todca of Barbary). Nat. ord., Filices. 

 Linn, arr., Filices Polypodiacea;. — This plant, called at Kew 

 the Australian Fern Royal, was sent over to England by Baron 

 Von Mueller from the Victorian Alps in 1869. It is of very 

 large size, weighing at the time of its arrival, and when it had 

 not a single frond, 15 cwt. It has now 160 fronds, each 5 feet 

 in length, ai'ising from thii'ty crowns, and an immense caudes. 

 It is a native of south and east AustraUa, Tasmania, and of 

 southern Africa, but not of Barbary, as the name which Lin- 

 nJBUs bestowed on it would lead us to suppose. — {Bot. Marf.^ 

 t. 5954.) 



Sexecio pclcheu (Handsome Senecio). Nat, ord., Compo- 

 sitse. TAitn. an\, Syngenesiasuperilua,— A very robust annual, 

 from 1 to 4 feet high, with leaves from 4 to 10 inches long. 

 Flower a bright red, purple in the ray, yellow in the disk. It 

 is a native of South America, and was discovered in Brazil 

 forty years ago at tlie base of the Sugar-Loaf Mountain in the 

 south of that coimtiy. — (Ibid., t. o9o9.| 



CoRYNosTYLis Hybanthi's. Nat. ord., Violacea?. T,inn. an:, 

 Pentandria Monog;^'nia. — A stove shrub, imported from Para, 

 which, although closely allied to the Violace<e, in habit ami 

 form of its flower more resembles the racemose Indian Balsams. 

 Leaves alternate, from 2 to 5 inches long, elliptic-oblong, bright 

 grassy green, with the lower side rather paler than the upper. 

 Flowers an-auged in axillaiy sub-corymbose racemes, pure 

 white and odorous. — (Ibid., t. 5960.) 



Bolbophtllcm LE5INISCATUM (Ribboned Bolbophyllum). Nat. 

 ord., Orchidacea'. Linn, arr., Gynandiia Monandria. — "Its 

 curious glossy tubercled pscudobulbs, its capillaiy scape with the 

 long inflated upper sheath, its pendulous spike of glistemng mi- 

 nute flowers, and above all, its slender appendages that hang one 

 from the back of each .sepal, and which are as curious in struc- 

 ture as beautiful in colouring, together seem to mark it as the 

 t\-pe of a new genus. The elaborate structui*e of the append- 

 ages of the sepals deserves especial notice. Each consists of a 

 narrow club-shaped verj* flaccid body, three to foiu- times as 

 long as the flower, and is gradually narrowed into a filiform 

 pedicel. On a superflcial examination it appears to be 10-sided, 

 but on a transverse section is proved to consist of a capillary 

 axis, from which radiate ten longitudinal crenate undulate 

 plates, of eijual breadth and extreme delicacy. The whole 

 organ is not more than one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch 

 long, of a brilhant red-purple colour transversely banded with 

 white. These appendages suggested the very appropriate name 

 of lemniscatum (from lemniscus, a coloured ribbon). Of their 

 possible use I can form no conception ; they fall off as the 

 flower expands." — [Ibid., t. 5961.) 



Masdevallia ignea (Fiery MasdevaUiaj, AV/^ or/., Orchid- 

 acea?. Linn, arr., Gj'uandria Monandria. — Nearly allied to 

 M. Veitchiana, aud of as bright a colour, but differing in the 

 form of the leaf, which is in the shape of the sepals, and of 

 their disposition and curvature. It is a native of New Grenada. 

 " The colour, though not so deep as that of the Veitchiana, is 

 quite as vivid, and more resembles that of cinnabar, or, as 

 Reichenbach says, a * dazzling scarlet mixed with orange- 

 scarlet, too dazzling to look at long.' It thus suggests a 

 TuE British G.uideners' Mutual and Self-supportixg So- transition from the red heat of Veitchiana to a white heat. 

 ciETV.— The members of this Society, whose object is to estabUsh -^s in the latter species, this lustre — or water, as a jeweller 

 a uurseiy und home upon co-operative principles, for the pm-- would term it — is due to the refractive power of the fluid con- 

 pose of giving employment to gardeners of good character when ' tained in the superficial bladdery cells of the sepals, aud is 



Stigraaphyllon conciliatiim 

 Toumefortia heliotropioides 

 Tecoma velutina 



pulcbra 



hybrida {jmndiflora 



jasminoides 

 Thunbercria alata 

 Tacbonia Mortii 



Dr. AVylde, splendid hybrid 

 Tiimai-ix tallica 

 Tiuiidia pavonia 

 Tritoma Uvaiia 

 Veronica kcrmesiua splendens 



Verbena, various 

 Vemonia novaboracensis 

 Webbia cauariensis 

 Zinnia, double and sinj^le 

 Zauschneria califomica 

 Zephyi-onthes, sp. 



