REPORT ON PENTSTEMONS, 403 



A Ballot for the Plants announced last montli then took 

 place. The names of the successful applicants will be given 

 in next month's •'Proceedings," and the Plants afterwards 

 forwarded from Chiswick. 



XL VII.— REPORT ON PENTSTEMOXS, 



Grown at Chiswick, in 1861. 



By Thomas Moore, F.L.S., Secretary to the Floral Committee. 



The considerable number of garden varieties of Pentstemon 

 now in cultivation, induced the Committee to collect together 

 such as could be obtdned, for comparison, and in order to 

 ascertain w-hich of them possessed superior merit. For this 

 purpose plants were contributed by Messrs. Downie Laird and 

 liAiNG, Mr. Bull, •Messrs. E. Gr. Henderson & Son, and Mr. 

 Turner. Those kinds which were found to possess the highest 

 merit are indicated in the following memoranda, descriptive of 

 the peculiarities of the respective varieties. For the most part 

 they consisted of varieties of P. Hartiver/ii, with, in some cases, 

 the blood of P. gentianoides intermixed, 



1. Admiral Linois. 



r 



From Messrs. Downie & Co. Salmony-red with pale slightly 

 marked throat, medium-sized, 



3, Albicans. 



From Mr. Bull. Creamy white, tinted outside with salmon- 

 red, medium-sized. Distinct and very handsome; a first-class 

 sort. 



3. Amabilis, 



From Messrs. E. G, Henderson and Mr. Turner. Crimson- 

 red with light striped throat, medium-sized, short-tubed, 



4. Apocentea, 



From Mr. Turner. Dull crimson-red with striped throat, large. 



5. Argntus. 



From Messrs. E. G. Henderson. A .distinct species, with 

 sharply-toothed leaves and small rosy-purple flowers, forming a 

 pretty border perennial. 



