222 Floi'icultural and Botanical Notices. 



Tecoma jasmitioldcs rosea. — Are amateur lovers of beauti- 

 ful plants aware of the elegance of this fine variety of the Tec- 

 oma ? Unlike the species, young plants a foot high bloom 

 freely in 5i:r-inch pots, and the delicate rosy tints of the corols, 

 with their deeper-colored throat, are of the greatest beauty. 



Beckys New Pelargoniiims will be splendidly in flower in 

 our collection from the present time, to the last of June, and am- 

 ateurs of this most beautiful of plants are invited to examine 

 them. Aurora, Desdemona, Zanzummin, Isabella, and other 

 seedlings of 1845 are superb ; but Cassandra, Honora, Centu- 

 rion, Blanche, and others, seedUngs of 1845, are surpassingly 

 fine. 



57. Rhodode'ndron java'nicum Bennett Java Rhododendron. 

 (EricdcecE.) Java. 



A greenhouse shrub ; growing five or six feet hiih ; with yellow (lowers ; appearing in spring ; 

 increased by layers and grafting ; cultivated in healh mould, loam, and sand. Flore desSerres, 

 1847, pi. i93. 



Of certain families of plants which have long been inhab- 

 itants of our gardens, there has ever been a great desire to pos- 

 sess varieties with yellow flowers ; the pseony, the camellia, 

 the rhododendron, and others, are of this number. Recently, a 

 yellow pseony has been introduced. Mr. Fortune brought 

 home what is said to be a yellow camellia ; and now we have, 

 from Java, a true yellow rhododendron. A magnificent thing 

 it is, according to the plate, but much more brilliant must the 

 flower itself be. We cannot better convey an idea of its beauty 

 than in a translation of the descriptive account annexed to the 

 figure : — "The introduction of a plant like this is one of the 

 highest good fortunes for our gardens, both as a distinct spe- 

 cies, and as an ornamental plant. Botanists have, for some 

 time, been conversant with it, from the description of it given 

 by Mr. Blume, who first discovered it on the mountains of 

 Salak, in the island of Java. M. Horsfield also found it on 

 the volcanic mountains which traverse this isle, at an eleva- 

 tion of 4,000 feet above the level of the sea. M. Ad. Papeleu 

 saw it in 1840, and sent to M. Van Houtte several plants, but 

 they unfortunately perished on the route. It is to M. Lobb 

 ihat we are indebted for the honor of its introduction in a liv- 

 ing state to Europe, — an honor of the highest merit, for, with- 

 out the fear of being taxed with exaggeration, we consider it 



