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Pentstemon Gokdoni — Mr. Gordon's. 

 Mr Gordon collected seeds of this beautiful species in the valley of 

 the Platte River on the east side of the Rocky Mountains, a portion 

 of which were given to Edward Leeds, Esq., of Manchester, who 

 raised plants, wliich Iiave bloomed. In many respects it ap- 

 proaches the beautiful P. speciosum. The plant grows to half a yard 

 hioh branching. The flowers are produced in many-flowered peduncles, 

 which form a long panicle, producing a pretty appearance. Each 

 flower is about an inch and a-half long, having a broad five-parted 

 reflexed month, a rich blue, with a tinge of purple along the tube. 

 It well deserves to be in every flower garden. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 

 4319.) 



S.^LYIA LEUCANTHA— WlIITE-FLOWERED. 



It is a native of IMexico, and was introduced into tliis country by 

 Lady Smirke, of Great Stanmore, in Middlesex, in whose greenhouse 

 collection it has bloomed. The plant grows to about two feet high, 

 branchin"-. The leaves are narrow, three inches long. 1 he flowers 

 are white" produced in long spikes, and are borne in whorls of six to 

 eight flowers in each. A separate blossom is about three-quarters ot 

 an'inch long. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4318.) 



ViBERNUM MACROCEFHALUM— Large-headed Guelder Rose. 



Mr Fortune sent this noble-flowered species from China to the 

 Horticultural Society, having found it in Chusan and at Shanghae. 

 He speaks of it thus : " This noble species was also found in the 

 cardens of the rich in the north of China, and will probably prove 

 quite hardy in England. Tliere is a tree of it in a garden on the 

 island of Chusan at least twenty feet high, which in the month of May 

 every year is covered with its snow-white blossoms. When grafted it 

 blooms on small plants in pots, and is like a white Hydrangea, by 

 which name it is known amongst the Chinese." It is certainly one of 

 the finest hardy shrubs ever introduced. The heads are pyramidal, 

 eight inches each way, and a separate blossom near two inches across. 

 (Figured in Bot. Reg., 43.) 



Pelargoniums. 



The show Pelargoniums exhibited at the late meetings held at 

 Chiswick Gardens, Regent's Park, and th.e Surrey Zoological Gardens 

 comprised the greatest number of superb sorts ever before brought 

 to<rether, and they were managed, in exhibiting, &c., far more satis- 

 factorily and natural; the very objectionable porcupine surface of 

 sticks, and unnatural disposal of the branches, were a most uniformly 

 dispensed with, and whicli received tlie cordial approval of the visitors. 



The Seedlings of 1846, and those of the present year blooming, 

 contained several of first-rate excellence in form and substance ; but in 

 some instances there was not sufticient distinction from other varieties 



in colours and marking. , . ■ ^ ^ *i „ 



A new race, however, is coming forward in what is termed the 



Fancy Kinds, which, being gay and beautiful, are much admired, 



