MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 23 



Names. Description. Height in ft, 



Jeaune Insurmountable ..Fine yellow 4 to 5 



King of the Yellows ... .Primrose yellow 



Lady Grey Striped shaded rose and white 3 



Lord Liverpool Fine dark peuce ... 5 



Marchioness of Abercoru..White and purple, mottled 3 



Metropolitan Fine rose 2 to 3 



Neptune Superb large lilac (best known) 3 to 4 



New Scarlet Turban .. ..Fine deep scarlet 4 



Pencilled White Beautiful cupped petals 3 to 4 



Pothecary's Queen of ShebaFine violet 



Picta formosissima Bright pale orange, with bright scarlet stripe 4 to 5 



Queen of Dahlias Pure white, with beautiful rosy lilac edge — 



a very superior kind 



Shannon Dark crimsou 4 



Sir Robert Peel Fine buff 4 to 5 



Springfield Rival Dark rosy crimson, beautiful globular shaped 4 to 5 



Widnall's Black Prince . .Rich crimson, with black stripes 3 to 4 



Carua Large beautiful purple 4 to 5 



Cleopatra ... .Beautiful French lilac 3 to 4 



Comus Fine primrose yellow 3 



Diana Fine rose, with beautiful cupped petals . . 3 to 4 



Duchess of Bedford, Fine vivid scarlet 3 to 4 



Enchanter ... .Shaded buff and lilac 3 to 4 



Golconda ... .Beautiful mottled white and purple 3 



. Granta Dark claret, extra fine shaped, with beauti- 

 ful cupped petals 4 



Jris Purple, shaded or striped with red 4 to 5 



Jason Bright golden yellow 5 



Othello Superb dark peuce, very fine 4 



Perfection .... Superb bright rosy crimson 3 



Remus Fine light scarlet 3 to 4 



Rising Suu.... Large dark scarlet, extra fine 4 to 5 



On Cornus capitata, or Benthamia fragifera. — I send you a few 

 seeds of the Coruus capitata of Dr. Wallich, or the Benthamia fragifera of 

 Dr. Lindley. This very valuable addition to our collection of hardy shrubs 

 was raised in the garden of J. H. Tremayne, Esq. at Heligan, Cornwall, by 

 Mr. Roherts, the gardener, from seed sent from Nepal, by Sir A. Buller. 

 It is a most beautiful evergreen shrub. The largest plant of it in Europe is 

 now at Heligan, growing most profusely in the shrubbery at that place. It 

 is seventeen feet high. It has flowered for several seasons, but was more mag- 

 nificently in bloom this summer than I ever saw it before. In autumn the 

 shrub has a most splendid appearance, by being loaded with large, globular 

 shaped, reddish fruit. The shrub is readily propagated by seeds, cuttings, or 

 layers, put in under a hand glass, having a light loamy soil. The berries 

 ripened, for the first time, at Heligan, last autumn, and Mr. Roberts has 

 .-nine young plants raised from the seeds. I should feel pleasure iu seeing a 

 coloured figure of the plant in the Cabinet. 



St. Auslle, Sept. 23rd, 1833. Richardcs. 



[Note. — We have the figure in the course of preparation. — Conductor.] 



On the Properties of the Hyacinth. — 1. The stem should be strong, 

 tall, and erect, supporting numerous large bells, each suspended by a short and 

 strong peduncle or foot-stalk, in a horizontal position. 



2. The whole should have a compact pyramidal form, with the crown or 

 Dppermott bell perfectly erect. 



:i. I he bells should be large, and perfectly double, well filled with broad 

 bold petals, appearing to the eye rather convex, than flat or hollow; they 

 •hould occupy about one half the length of the stem. 



4. The colour* should be clear and bright, whether plain, white, red, or blue, 

 or variously intermixed or diversified in the eye; the latter gives additional 

 lustre and elegance to this beautiful flower. 



