THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



OCTOBER 1st, 1844. 

 PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



CEANOTIIUS THYRSIFLORUS. Thyrse-bearinq. 



R. B. Hinds, Esq., as well as the late Mr. Douglas, discovered this 

 plant ; the former at San Francisco 'and Monteroy, the latter in, 

 California. The native specimens were objects of considerable 

 beauty. We saw a plant of it growing against a wall in the garden 

 of the London Horticultural Society in very profuse bloom, and 

 affording a delightful appearance. It is a hardy evergreen shrub, 

 the foliage being of a shining green. The flowers are produced in 

 large branching panicles. It makes a charming plant to train 

 against a wall or trellis ; and there being so few blue flowers of this 

 class of ornamental plants, renders this species still more valuable. 

 It may be obtained at a reasonable price at most of the public 

 nurseries, as the Horticultural Society have freely distributed plants. 



ALONA CCELISTUS. The Sky-blue. 



This new and beautiful flowering plant belongs to the Nolanas, 

 and is included in the group of shrubby species. It is a native of 

 Peru and Chile, and has been raised from seed by Mr. Best, gardener 

 to A. Park, Esq., of Merton Grove, in Surrey, from whom we re- 

 ceived a specimen. 



The habit of the plant is somewhat of a Heath, much branching, 

 and forms a good-sized bush. It blooms very freely, and produces a 



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