142 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE 



Lis domains in Herefordshire displayed a very interesting developement ot 

 the principles of modern horticulture. 



Mr. Knight was the author of many valuable Works, independent of his 

 extensive contributions to the Transactions of the Royal and Horticultural 

 Societies. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS NOTICED 



IN VARIOUS NURSERIES. &C. 



At Mr. Grooms, Walworth. — Lelarge Ornata. A new and pretty plant 

 at £5 5s. each, it ;has not yet bloomed, ^lso Diplouena Dampierii, £5. 

 each, neither of the species have yet bloomed with Mr. Groom. The Tulips 

 are in most vigorous growth, and are grown in amazing multitudes ; one bed 

 is valued at £1500. The shew will be most splendid, and well worth going a 

 considerable distance to see. 



At Messrs. Chandler's, Vauxhall.— Their collection of Camellias were in 

 fine bloom. The following were the most superb. Candedissima, Ekimia, 



DONCKLERII, EXIMIA, ROSA SINENSIS, PARKSI, 1jEAI.II, VanDESHIA, FLO- 

 RIDA, Sanguinea, for the description of colour we refer our readers to the 

 excellent lists by Camelliae in former numbers. The collection of Hybrid 

 Rhododendrons are in splendid bloom, and some of the kinds are very much 

 superior in beauty to anything we have seen. We shall notice them (more 

 particularly) in our next number, To see them in bloom will amply repay 

 for a journey. A very magnificent Hybrid one we saw in bloom at Mr. Milnes, 

 Stoke Newington Nursery, having seventy-five heads of flowers. 



Diasma Capitata.— A beautiful greenhouse plant, forming a neat busb, 

 and blooming most profusely. The flowers are of a bluish-purple. Jt is as 

 hardy as a Myrtle. 



Camellias. The show was most brilliant, and some of the kinds are grown, 

 to large bushes, ten or twelve feet high, and literally loaded with flowers. 

 To walk amongst them is like going through a forest of Camellias. It would 

 amply repay a visit to view them. We shall remark on various kinds in onr 

 next month's number. 



Acacia Cultripormis. — Messrs. Rollisons of Tooting Nursery, have had 

 this plant beautifully in bloom, bearing a profusion of tine yellow Bowers. 

 It is a desirable plant to turn out in a conservatory. 



Ribes Menziesii. — The late Mr. Douglas sent seeds of this rare and 

 little known species from California. The young shoots are densely clothed 

 with slender bristles, very much like R. Lacustre, but is very different in its 

 flowers. Those of R. Menziesii are of the same colour as R. speciosa, with 

 the exception of being a little paler ; they are smaller, and without the high 

 projecting crimson coloured stamens, which appear so beautiful in the flowers 

 of this last named species. The plant appears to be quite hardy ; it is at 

 the London Horticultural Society's Garden. 



Demdrobium candidum. — This new and fine species has been sent from 

 Nungelow, in India, by Mr. Gibson, collector to the Duke of Devonshire, 

 and it has bloomed at Catsworth. The flowers are of a pure white, most 

 powerfully fragrant. The habit of the plant is that of D. Nobile ; growing 

 erect. 



Rhododendron Smithii. The show of this splendid plant was most 

 magnificent at Messrs. Chandlers, we may add, was unrivalled. They pos- 

 sess the original true variety, which far exceeds in beauty some o'.her kinds 



