68 BRIEF REMARKS, 



beautiful is a source of admiration to me. As I had never seen a 

 double wild Rose, and not recollecting that, any were described in the 

 books, I thought it might prove a valable contribution to the flora of 

 our country, and therefore determined to forward this specimen to you, 

 and, if a new variety, through your present to the Horticultural 

 Society of Cincinnati, a Rose bush in the spring, when it can be 

 transplanted without hazard. I so much doubted its growing wild 

 that its graceful discovery piloted me through the prairie to the spot 

 three days ago. There, on the point of a ridge, in a space not more 

 than 20 feet square, they were climbing over undergrowth, making 

 the wilderness indeed blossom like the Kose; but to me its situation 

 was most curious, from the fact of its being surrounded, on the de- 

 clivity of the elevation, by a wilderness of the single wild Rose and 

 Pea Vines. A lively imagination might fancy the ridge to be the 

 burial place of some of the aborigines, thus decorated by pious hands 

 lonrr since mouldered into dust. Should this prove a new variety, I 

 would be glad that it should perpetuate the name of its graceful dis- 

 coverer, Teche Ne/iame 3Ia-a?i-ga, which the United States interpreter 

 tells me may be rendered into English, The Rose of Wyandotte. 

 Me-an-o-a is an epithet of endearment, meaning bright looking. I 

 called at her mother's cottage, and found their garden filled with 

 beautiful wild flowers, and flowering shrubs, collected by the daughter. 

 One shrub with its long spikes of pale yellow flowers and graceful, 

 fairy, locust-like leaves was very pretty, but her hedge of wild Roses 

 excited most intense admiration. There is a cluster now lying before 

 me, on which there are twenty full blown Roses and eight buds ; 

 they have been in bloom since June 15. — Cincinnati Horticultural 



Review. 



The Hokticultural Society: Meeting, held in the Rooms in 

 Recent Street, 18th February. — Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing Park, sent 

 a charming collection of Orchids, for which a Banksian medal was 

 awarded. It consifted of a nice specimen of the long-tailed Lady's 

 Slipper (Cypripedium caudatum), the handsome Lycaste Skinneri, 

 Coelosyne cristata, the white-blossomed Odontoglossum pulchellum, 

 Cyrtochilum hastatum, the yellow Oncidium Cavendishii, and cut 

 specimens of Heliconia Braziliensis. From Mr. Ingram of the Royal 

 Gardens, Frogmore, came an exceedingly handsome Begonia manicata. 

 It could not have measured less than three feet high, and as much 

 through, and it was loaded with blossoms which had, however, suffered 

 considerably from travelling. The same establishment also contri- 

 buted three seedling Cyclamens in the way of persicum, beautifully 

 orown and flowered. A Banksian Medal was awarded for these and 

 the Begonia. Messrs. Lee, of Hammersmith, furnished a small 

 example of Rondeletia (Rogiera) thyrsiflora, which promises to be 

 useful. Mr. Cole, gardener to H. Collyer, Esq., of Dartford, sent the 

 Nerium-leaved Allamanda. This proves to be a smaller flowered kind 

 than the old A. cathartica ; but it is neverthele>s handsome, and well 

 deserved the Certificate of Merit which was awarded it. Mr. Gaines, 

 of Battersea, contributed Centradenia floribunda, and Rondeletia 

 thyrsiflora. Mr. Kinghorn, gardener to the Earl of Kilmorey, ex- 

 hibited two beautiful seedling Epacrises. One, named Kinghornii, 



