NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 195 



E. grandiflora-rubra. — Habit and foliage of E. grandiflora, and 

 the large flowers of a deep crimson, tipped with white. Mr. King- 

 horn's seedling. 



E. Kinghornii. — Habit and foliage of E. grandiflora. The tube 

 of the flower is rather shorter, of a clear rose colour at the lower part, 

 and paler upwards, with the tip of a pure white. Very neat and 

 pretty. Mr. Kinghorn's seedling. 



E. hyacinthiflora candidissima. — Habit and foliage of E. vari- 

 abilis. Corolla of a broad bell-shaped form, and of a pure white. 

 Seedling of Mr. Story's. The four are figured in Magazine of Botany. 



Both Mr. Kinghom and Mr. Story have paid considerable attention 

 to the improvement of this charming tribe of plants, and they have 

 been amply repaid by the valuable hybrids which they have supplied 

 the floral public with. There is still room for much more to be done. 

 Why may we not have some of the habit of E. pulchella, with bright 

 crimson, red, or scarlet flowers, and thus increase the beauties which 

 are summer bloomers ; and similar coloured ones having the habit and 

 form of E. impressa, campanulata, &c, and thus improve the winter 

 bloomers ? Attempts to raise hybrids will be highly interesting, and 

 the result satisfactory. Similar attempts with many other families of 

 greenhouse plants would amply repay for every attention. 



Gloxinia Petoiana. — A handsome hybrid, raised at Somerleyton 

 Hall gardens, in Suffolk. The ground is white, and the upper and 

 lower parts of the throat surrounded (as in G. Fyfiana) with a rich 

 crimson-like colour. Messrs. Youell and Co. obtained the stock of 

 plants. 



Nympii.e rubra. The Crimson "Water-Lily. — It is a stove 

 aquatic from the East Indies. We recently saw it in fine bloom in the 

 large aquatic house at the nursery of Messrs. Knight and Perry, 

 King's-road, Chelsea. The flowers were eight inches across, of a rich 

 crimson colour, which produced a pretty contrast with the flowers of 

 other kinds then in bloom in the same house. It is very showy. 

 (Figured in Paxton's Flower Garden.) 



Pelargonium Golden Admiration. — One of the usually termed 

 Scarlet- Geranium section. It has rich golden variegated foliage, a 

 free bloomer, the flowers large, and of a brilliant scarlet. 



1'. Beauty of the Parterre. — Foliage green, with a very distinct 

 dark horse-shoe marking. The plant is of dwarf habit, blooming 

 freely. The flowers are of a bright salmon colour. Very pretty, and 

 excellent for beds or pots. 



P. Bridal Bouquet. — The leaves have a green centre, surrounded 

 with clear white ; a free bloomer, having flowers of a deep crimson- 

 scarlet. 



P. Punch. — Foliage green, dwarf habit, and blooms very freely. The 

 flowers are of fine form, of a rich scarlet, and borne in very large heads. 

 It is a charming variety for beds or pots. There are some beds of it 

 in the Royal Gardens of Kew, which surpass all others of ils class. 



r2 



