158 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
the Rose here figured we pati nothing, save that it comes from China; and, as Dr. Lindley has observed, it is 
fruitless to inquire. As an ornamental rose for the garden, we should have thought there could have been but one 
opinion among those who e seen the flowering plant (the enn of the el cannot be imitated by art), and that is 
entirely in its favour. But it has been spoken of unfav by some ; and this has been accounted for by 
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space. “Seldom,” write Messrs. Standish and Noble,in June of the present year, “has a really beautiful Soi 
it to be worthless. In fact there exists a deeply rooted prejudice against the plant, caused, no doubt, by the very 
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tint of crimson lake, and you obtain an idea of its colour. The centre petals have generally a predominance of lake, and 
the outer ones are more strongly marked; but -— isa ماي‎ clearness about them, which can only be appreciated 
by examining a flower, Apart from the prejudice which t the plant, many persons have spoken derogatively 
of it, from having failed to cultivate it simis ; their plants: producing but few flowers, and those indifferent both 
in size and colour. This has arisen from an improper mode of treatment, If pruned in the manner usually adopted for 
to a wall, the shoots should only be thinned,—to shorten them is to destroy the flowers. We have at the time of 
writing this (June 28) some standards, from three to e feet through the heads, covered with blossoms; and mor 
it has been said to be tender ; but we have never seen it injured in the least, even during the most severe weather, It is 
one of the most rapid-growing roses, and well adapted for a wall or pillar.” Mr. Fortune tells us, “ the rose you inquire 
about is well known to me, and was discovered in the garden of a rich Mandarin at Ningpo. It completely covered an 
old wall in the garden, and was in full bloom at the time of my visit : masses of glowing yellowish and salmon-coloured 
owers hung down in the greatest profusion, and produced a most striking effect. It is called A the Chinese the Wang- 
jang-ve, or yellow rose. They vary, however, a good deal in colour ; a circumstance which, my opinion, adds not a 
little to the beauty and character of the plant. I fancy it is quite distinct bel any other ee variety, and certainly 
different from any China kind. It is admirably adapted for covering walls: and if planted in rich soil, and allowed to 
grow to its full size, nothing can ادي‎ a finer effect in our gardens. It was sent home to the Horticultural Society 
in 1845, and noticed by me in the Journal of the Society, vol. i. p. 218, and again in my Journey to the Tea Countries, 
P "uet a doubt = hayi hide: =e that it has been properly € treated by Men Standish and Noble, will soon 
— Bot. Mag. 679. 
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634, CowACLINIUM AURANTIACUM. Scheidweiler. (alias Tithonia splendens Gardens.) A most 
beautiful half-hardy perennial, with scarlet flower-heads. Native of Guatemala (P). Belongs to 
Composites. Introduced by Mr. Van Houtte. 
This plant looks like an “ African Marigold,” with the flowers of a Scarlet Zinnia, M. Planchon says that it was 
raised from seeds found in the earth belonging to a lot of Orchids from Central America, by Mr. Ortgies, the foreman 
in Mr. Van Houtte’s hothouses. It was planted out under the wall, in front of an Orchid-house, and flowered last autumn. 
Messrs; regor and Scheidweiler are of opinion that it forms an entirely new genus in the tribe of Tagetineæ, which 
are b y their copious oil cysts, close to the Pectidese, * now lost, one hardly knows why, among Vernoniaceæ.” 
The cakes is the character given by these gentlemen of their new genus :— 
apitulum multiflorum, heterogamum, floribus radii ligulatis, uniseriatis, foemineis, disci hermaphroditis (?) tubulosis, 
centralibus subabortivis. Involucri squamee circiter 12 , subuniseriatæ, à basi liberze, marginibus tantum leviter imbricatee, 
lineari-spathulate, epe longitudinaliter bete حي‎ dilatat to wa vend em, vittis — lineatze. 
eulum conicum, floribus dem ob paleas i mosum e nomen). Corolla 
floseulorum apice vix eta; te 5-fida, gem uris crassis, e vain pue BARES x chr contortis. 
Antherze ecaudatze : pollen is اف‎ echinulatum. Styli bifidi cruribus ad margines minute dipsa sub apice 
conico breviter annulato-barbatis. Ovaria cylindraceo-clavata, haud manifeste angulata nec alata. Pappus è paleis circiter 
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punctiformibus conspersa. Capitula terminalia, solitaria, pulehré aurantiaca, pedunculo uctus 
incrassato, bracteolis 2—3 lineari-lanceolatis involucro admotis.—Scheidweiler and Pi eere 
635. LILIUM CANADENSE. J.; var. occidentale. A fine showy bulbous plant, with narrow 
