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Art. VI. JYotices of new and beautiful Plants figured in the London 

 Floricultural and Botanical Magazines ; u'ith some Account of those 

 which it would be desirable to introduce into our Gardens. 



Edwards's Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Garden and 

 Shrubbery. Each number containing eight figures of riants and 

 Shrubs. In monthly numbers, 4s. colored, 3s. plain. Edited by John 

 Lindley, Ph. D., F. R. S., L, S., and G. S., Professor of Botany in 

 the University of London. 



Curtis's Botanical Magazine, or Flower Garden Displayed, containing 

 eight plates. In monthly numbers, 3s. Gd, colored, 3s. plain. Edited 

 by William Jackson Hooker, L. L. D., F. R. A., and L. S., Regius 

 Professor of Botany in the Univei'sity of Glasgow. 



Class I. 



Plants having distinct flowers and sexes. 



Sub-class I. 



Exogenous or Dicotyledonous Plants, (witli two seed leaves or cotyledons.) 



Division I. Plants with a polypetalous (many-leaved) corolla. 



XXXII, Ternstromiaccce. 



Camellia japonica, Thompson's new varieties of. Three varieties of 

 Camellia japonica, raised from seed in the nursery of Mr. Thomson, 

 Mile End, have flowered this spring for the first time, and have displayed 

 properties that are likely to place them high in the estimation of lovers 

 of the camellia. The history of their origin is this ; seeds produced in 

 1827, by the variety termed expansa, were sown in 1828. From these 

 seed, seven or eight plants arose, which have all flowered, have all 

 proved difl^erent varieties, and all possessed of merit suflicient to entitle 

 them to be preserved ; but the three alluded to above, have been selected 

 from the rest, as possessed of surpassing characters. Two of these three 

 we saw in flower, and a painting ©f the flowering specimen of the third, 

 on April 28th, when we noted down the following characteristics of 

 them. The names prefixed to them were determined on at the same 

 time. 



Susanna : after Miss Susanna Thomson, a daughter of the late Mr. 

 Thomson. The flowers of this variety assimulate to that of the variety 

 Sweetiana ; and some have thought that it equals or surpasses it in the 

 merit of properties. The petals have a white ground, with pink stripes, 

 in the manner of those of a flower of a carnation, but fewer and fainter : 

 the centre of the flower is pretty well filled with petals. The flowers 

 are produced in plenty. 



Martha : after Martha Thomson, now Mrs. Poole : its flower assim- 

 ulates to Colviliii. The mode of its formation is somewhat that of the 

 Warratah. The petals have a blush ground and pink stripes ; the cen- 

 tre of the flower filled with petals. The flowers are produced in plenty ; 

 the foliage is fine. 



Wadeiana : after Mr. Wade, now, and for many years past, propaga- 

 tor in this nursery. Petals of a dead white color ; the flowers large, in 

 mode of formation distinct from from either the old double white (alba 

 plena), or the double fringed white (fimbriata). The petals are larger, 

 and less compactly disposed ; the centre is, notwithstanding, filled. The 

 flowers last long ; one had stood twenty one days before it had fallen. 

 The leaves are large, and of an aspect which suggests that this variety's 

 habit of growth is a free one. — Gard. Mag. for June. 



Seven new hybrid varieties are said to have been raised in the gar- 

 dens of W. F. Cambell, Esq.,M. P.,Newhall, Lanarkshire, all of which 

 are said to be splendid. — Flor. Cab., May. 



