THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



DECEMBER 1st, 1846. 



PART I. 

 ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 



GARDENIA FLORIDA; vah. FORTUNIANA. 



There has recently been introduced into this country several splendid 

 additions to this beautiful and much esteemed genus, and the one 

 now figured is a very valuable acquisition. It was discovered by 

 Mr. Fortune, the London Horticultural Society's collector, in the north 

 of China. The particulars relative to it, as inserted in the Journal 

 of the Horticultural Society, are, — 



" It is a greenhouse shrub. The common single and double varie- 

 ties of this plant are known to every one. That which is now noticed 

 differs merely in the extraordinary size of the flowers, which are 

 nearly four inches in diameter, and in having fine broad leaves, some- 

 times as much as six inches long. It is one of the very finest shrubs 

 in cultivation, and ranks on a level with the double white Camellia, 

 which it equals in the beauty of the flowers and leaves, and infinitely 

 excels in its delicious odour." 



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