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it is a very likely plant to succeed in the greenhouse too, keeping- it in 

 the warmest and most moist situation therein. (Figured in Hot. Mag., 

 4566.) 



Veronica Andersonii. — This is a very pretty variety, raised by a 

 gentleman at Maryfield, near Edinburgh. It was produced between 

 Veronica salicifolia (V. Lindleyana of some) being impregnated by 

 Veronica speciosa. It appears to be just intermediate between the two, 

 having broader leaves than salicifolia, but narrower than speciosa. 

 The spikes of flowers are white at the lower part, and of a rich violet 

 above. It is a charming plant, well worth possessing. (Figured in 

 Paxton's Flower Garden.) 



"Wahlenbergia vinoefeora (or Campanula vincseflora). — A pretty 

 hardy perennial plant ; but to keep it through winter it must be taken 

 up and be placed in the greenhouse. It, however, seeds freely, and 

 may be treated in all respects as a hardy annual. It will bloom freely 

 during the entire summer. The flowers are pale outside, but of a 

 bright azure-blue inside, with a white eye and a yellow tube-mouth. 

 Each blossom is an inch across, spreading. A beautiful dwarfish- 

 growing plant, deserving a place in every flower-garden. 



THE DIAGRAMS OF THE " GARDENER'S MAGAZINE 



OF BOTANY." 



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I am fully aware that to notice the minnows which flirt about in the 

 horticultural stream is to raise up a class of persons who would be 

 oracles if they had any influence, but who are better left to themselves. 

 One of the small fry, who seems to lord it over the uninformed, through 

 five or six pages of the Midland Florist, finishes by thrusting his nose 

 into a vice, which pinches harder than he bargained for. He says, 

 towards the conclusion of a very rambling article, — • 



" If I am not trespassing too much on your space and the patience 

 of your readers, I would just say a few words upon the two diagrams 

 in the above number (he has been finding fault with the work) of the 

 Gardener's Magazine — one of a perfect Picotee and the other of a 

 Carnation, which I venture to say never will be attained, if the world 

 should continue until it is twice its present age; and for this very simple 

 reason : the petals in the same tier are of two widths, as will be evident 

 to the most uninitiated in looking at the plates ; and this is a freak, or 

 law, which nature never will adopt, I'll toarrant. It is not at all 

 necessary she should, for we have a more perfect model in actual 

 flowers at the present clay ; and if y r our readers ask where, I reply in 

 the drawing of Hollyoak's Duke of Rutland, before alluded to, in the 

 same work, and exactly opposite, as if put there expressly for my pre- 

 sent purpose, for the sake of comparison. Then, again, look at the 

 complete rosette the diagram makes ! a fit subject for adorning a 

 horse's bridle. There are no less than seven tiers of petals in each of 

 these diagrams, comprised of forty-two petals, a goodly number to come 



