2CO Boiivardia Vreelandi. 



should not be too rich and heavy, as they are liable to grow too much 

 to leaves, and are cut down by autumn frost before they can flower. 

 Some of them, of which S. splendens is an example, do well with par- 

 lor culture, blooming freely from October to Christmas. For city gar- 

 dens there are no better plants, as, protected from early frost, they have 

 a season long enough to display their full beauties. The genus is a 

 favorite of ours ; and a most attractive feature of our garden would be 

 wanting, did we fail to plant our masses of blue and x*ed Salvias. 



Glen Ridge, October, 1S69. 



BOUVARDIA VREELANDI. 



By Peter Henderson, Bergen, N. J. 



The engraving is an excellent representation of a plant that will 

 probably prove a valuable acquisition to our winter flowers. I say 

 probably^ for the point is yet to be decided whether it will retain its 

 character when propagated from roots — our previous experience with 

 the white varieties, that have " sported " from the red, having shown 

 that they go back to the original type, and can only be held true to 

 character when propagated from cuttii-jgs of the shoots. In this partic- 

 ular variety, — Vreelandi, — however, there is a marked difference from 

 the white varieties we have before had, all of these being tinged with 

 a pink or rose shade, while the present one is of the purest white, with- 

 out a tinge of any other color. We are inclined to hope that this well- 

 marked distinction may be fixed, and that when increased by root cuttings, 

 the plants so made will produce the pure white flowers of the parent. 



The history of this plant is rather peculiar. The gentleman in whose 

 hands it originated, Stephen B. Vreeland, of Greenville, N. J., pur- 

 chased from me, last spring, five hundred Bouvardia Hogarth, and on 

 lifting, to pot them for winter flowering last September, discovered one 

 plant showing the flower buds white. This was the plant from which 

 the specimen was taken that the drawing was made from. During the 

 past ten years, perhaps, twenty thousand plants of Bouvardias have been 

 forced for winter flowers annually ; yet in all that vast numbdr it is likely 

 that no pure white variety has ever before been produced. The plants 



