8 NOTES ON NEW OR RAKE PLANTS. 



in 1839, from Rio Janeiro by Sir Charles Lemon, and bloomed at 

 Carclew in 1846. 



VlBURNAM PLICATUM, VAR. DILATATA. THE CRIMPED GlJELDRES 



Rose. — The Horticultural Society introduced this plant from China. 

 It is a deciduous greenhouse shrub, and blooms very profusely, forming 

 numerous heads of snowball flowers, like the common one of our 

 shrubberies. In China it forms a bush eight or ten feet high. It is 

 supposed to prove hardy in this country in the warmer parts. Dwarf 

 plants in the greenhouse will be handsome objects, and well worth 

 having a place in every one. (Figured in Paxton's Flower 

 Garden, 29.) 



Showy Plants in Bloom in the Royal Gardens of Kew, 



December 16. 



Achimenes picta. — Fine plants are now coming into profuse 

 bloom ; such will increase in beauty through winter. They are in the 

 stove. 



Gesneria Herbertii. — Large plants, in fine bloom, the flowers of 

 a bright scarlet and rich yellow colours, beautifully spotted inside. 

 The tube is wide, and the front limb fully expanded, which shows the 

 flower fully. Very handsome. These will bloom the entire winter, 

 and are very ornamental ; so are the vigorous specimens of G. zebrina. 

 Every plant-stove or warm greenhouse should contain some of these 

 fine winter blooming plants. G. triflora is pretty, the flowers are of a 

 rich scarlet, very hairy, tube an inch and a half long. The blossoms 

 are produced in threes, at the joints. G. Seemanni, a plant of this 

 beautiful species, had a spike in bloom four feet long, and had a pro- 

 fusion of its fine scarlet and orange-coloured blossoms. 



Begonia fuchsioides. — Some large specimens were in fine bloom, 

 and their rich red drooping flowers were beautifully interesting. It is 

 a fine plant for this season of the year. 



In the Greenhouse. 



Erica floribunda. — The flowers are globular, small, white with a 

 tinge of pink, and the anthers are black, giving the flowers an appear- 

 ance of a black spot at the centre of a white blossom. Very interesting, 

 and blooms most profusely. 



Erica blanda. — Tube one inch long, white, and pink tinge. Very 

 pretty. 



Erica colorans.— White, neat, and blooms freely. 



Selago Gillii. — The flowers are small, but borne profusely in 

 very long spikes, of a neat rosy-lilac colour. It has a pretty effect in 

 the greenhouse collection. 



Iberis semferflorens. — This ever-blooming Candy tuft is a neat 

 shrub, nearly a yard high, and a free-flowering plant. The fine heads 



