144 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



The EXHIBITION of the HAMPSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



WAS HELD AT THE WHITE HART HOTEL, IN WINCHESTER, 



On Thurday, the 10th of March. 



The show was most splendid in forced flowers, vegetables, and greenhouse 

 plants — fruits were confined to pears and apples, the latter were numerous aud 

 exhibited good management in the gardeners method of preserving them. The 

 Rev. F. Beaden, the President, exhibited a collection of stove plants, a flue spe- 

 cimen of Bletia Tankervilliae, Euphorbia elegans, &c. ; a very fine box of forced 

 Lilies of the valley, a large basket of finely flowered Neapolitan Violets, a tray 

 of handsome Hyacinths, and a collection of other floweriug plants were sent by 

 Sir. T. Baring, Bart; a good collection of Hyacinths by the Rev. Mr. Cheere; a 

 fine Daphne odoratissima, and other greenhouse plants, by Col. Wall; a re- 

 markably fine specimen of Tropaeolinn tricolorum, with other greenhouse plants, 

 John Fleming, Esq.; a collection of greenhouse plants, by the Rev. Mr. 

 Rashleigh ; a beautiful specimen of a new Stapelia, by the Rev. T. Gamier; a 

 fine collection of greenhouse plants, by the Hon. Mrs. Craven ; an excellent 

 specimen of Mimulus Swithin, by the Rev. F. Wickham. On the middle table 

 were some good specimens of forced Rhododendron Catawbiense, Azaleas, 

 Lachenalias, &c. There was a distribution of grafts aud seeds amongst the 

 members, which were sent by the London Horticultural Society, together with a 

 liberal supply from Messrs. Reynolds, of Brentford, and Messrs. Page and Rogers, 

 of Southampton, in the whole between 3000 and 4000 packets. 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



Just Published — Flora Metropolitana, or Botanical Rambles within 

 thirty miles of London, made in 1833, 34, and 35, by Daniel Cooper. 



Preparing for Publication, the Magazine of Zoology and Botany, under the 

 superintendence of Sir W. Jardine, Bart., P. J. Selby, Esq., and Dr. Johnston, 

 of Berwick. To be published every second month. Price 3s. 6d. 



REFERENCE TO PLATE. 



No. 1. Mimulus Elphinstonea. — This new and splendid variety was recently 

 raised by Mr. Elphinstoue, of Holmbush. The plant is a most profuse bloomer, 

 and quite hardy ; it is one of the most ornamental plants for a flower garden ; 

 the blossoms far exceed in size and splendour of colours, any that we have seen. 

 Mimulus, from mimo, an ape, the seeds being like a face. 



2. Tournefortia heliotropioides. — This very pretty flower very much re- 

 sembles the Heliotropium corymbosum, but is of a deeper blue colour, and like 

 that plant is admirably adapted for a shewy bed — producing a pleasing effect 

 when in such masses. The flowers are not fragrant, like the Heliotrope ; the 

 plant is an herbaceous perennial, growing very freely, and blooming most pro- 

 fusely from May to October; the flower stems rise to about two feet high; it re- 

 quires a slight protection in winter, either under a frame, or cool greenhouse; it 

 is a native of Buenos Ayres, introduced about five years ago, into this country. 

 The plant may be obtained at many of the principal nurseries; it deservts 

 a place in every flower garden; it delights in a rich soil Peutandria, Mono- 

 gynia, Boraginea. Tournefortia, in compliment to I. P. Tournefort, the cele- 

 brated French Botanist. 



3. Eutoca Menziesii, Mr. Menzies's. — This new and beautiful flowering 

 hardy annual, was sent from Columbia, in North West America, by the late Mr. 

 Douglas, where it grows and blooms profusely, in a sandy soil. The plant grows 

 erect, about a foot high. Plants raised from seeds sown in March, bloom from 

 May to July, aud if sown in May, bloom from July to the end of September; it 

 merits a place in every flower garden. Pentandria Mouogyuia. Hydrophylleae. 

 Eutoca, from cutokos^ fruitful, referring to the abundance of seeds produced. 



