THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



DECEMBER 1st, 1845. 

 PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



1. GARDENIA STANLEYANA.— (Lord Derbys Gardenia.) 



This very fine stove-shrub is a native of Sierra Leone, from whence 

 it was sent by Mr. Whitfield to the Earl of Derby. A flowering 

 specimen was sent from Kew, and exhibited at the Horticultural 

 Society's Rooms, Regent-street, London, during the past summer, 

 and which we saw at Kew. Sir W. J. Hooker observes, " The 

 young plant presented to us, when yet only a few months old, but 

 placed on the table of a stove heated below by the tank system, threw 

 out flower-buds from most of the dichotomies of its young horizontal 

 branches ; and, in the month of March, 1845, no fewer than ten of 

 the noble flowers were expanded at a time." The plant, two years 

 old, is now about five feet high, shrubby, having a central stem 

 throwing out horizontal branches on all sides, and a spreading top. 

 The flowers are produced numerously, rising in an erect position 

 above the foliage, and are exhibited to full view. They are not only 

 very handsome, but are powerfully fragrant. The plant is of easy 

 culture, and, from what we see of its easy growth, we have no doubt 

 but it will succeed well in a warm greenhouse, and it highly merits a 

 place in every one ; it does well with us so far, and appears to bloom 

 freely when a dwarf plant. 



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