246 THE PROGRESS OF THE PELARGONIUM. 



Salvia speciosa. — This species is of medium habit, and blooms very 

 freely. The flowers are of the richest scarlet, and exceedingly pretty. 

 It blooms during the autumn and winter months, and is the more valu- 

 able on that account. It deserves to be in every greenhouse. 



Sarcopodium Lobbii, var. Henshalli. — A stove orchid epi- 

 phyte. It was imported from Java by Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting 

 Nursery. The flower-stems are each about six inches high, bearing a 

 solitary flower, which is three incites across. All the blossom is of a 

 yelIowi>h-burT, with the sepals streaked with brownish-purple. (Figured 

 in Mag. of Bot.) 



Spirea laxiflora. — A dwarfish bushy shrub from Nepal, quite 

 hardy, and the flowers are produced in terminal spreading panicled 

 heads, white; Its dwarf habit and free-flowering character render it 

 valuable for the front of a border of shrubs. 



At Messrs. Veitch's. 



Saxe-Goth^; conspicua. — This beautiful evergreen tree, from the 

 mountains of Patagonia, has somewhat the appearance of the Yew. It 

 has been planted in the open ground for severil years t and proves as 

 hardy as the Araucaria. 



Fitz Roya Patagonica. — This fine coniferous tree has also some- 

 what the appearance of the Yew, and having drooping branches. 



Librocedras TETRAGONUs. — It has the aspect of the Arbor Vitaj. 



Fagus obliqua. — An evergreen Beech from Patagonia. 



Castanea chrysophylla. — An evergreen Chestnut from California. 



Laurus aromaticus, — An evergreen from Chili, whose leaves are 

 more fragrant than those of the Bay-tree. 



Myrttjs Ugni. — A Myrtle from Chili, bearing a large purple fruit. 



Desfontaines spinosa. — An evergreen resembling a Holly-bush, 

 and produces beautiful scarlet Honeysuckle-\\ke flowers. 



Berberis Darwinii. — This we recently figured. It forms a hand- 

 some bush, and its shining evergreen foliage is exceedingly neat. 



Escallonia Pteppigeana. — Bearing white flowers. A native of 

 Peru. 



Trop^eoltjm speciosum. — A number of these pretty scarlet flowering 

 plants are planted and trained to a raortfA-aspected wall, and which bloom 

 very freely, and have a handsome appearance. It endures the winter 

 on the north side of the wall without injury, but will not thrive when 

 exposed to the sun. — Gardeners* Chronicle. 



THE PROGRESS OF THE PELARGONIUM. 

 ( Continued from page 222.) 



BY ORION. 



It was about this period when Mr. Rendle, of Plymouth, first intro- 

 duced a new and very superior method of advertising and " sending 

 out " new Pelargoniums, and which eventually quite superseded the 



