508 FloricuUural and Botanical Notices. 



Mr. Hartweg sent home live plants to the London Horticul- 

 tural Society, from whence it has been disseminated. In 

 England it has proved a perfectly hardy shrub, " with densely 

 placed, glossy, evergreen foliage, and rich deep purple-blue 

 and copious blossoms, early in May, which render it a most 

 desirable species for our gardens and shrubberies." With 

 us it will probably be only half hardy, north of Washington. 

 It is, however, one of the best of the tribe, and well worthy 

 of cultivation in greenhouses and conservatories, — where its 

 fine habit, glossy foliage and blue flowers will ever make it a 

 gay plant. [Bot. Mag., Aug.) 



187. Nymphje^i (hybkida) Devonie'nsis Paxton. Duke of 

 Devonshire's Nymphjea. (Nyinphacece.) Garden Hybrid. 



An aquatic plant ; with deep red flowers ; appearing all summer; increased by offsets ; grown 

 in loam and old cow-dun^. Bot. Mag., IS52, pi. 4Bli5. 



A magnificent Nymphas^a, with deep red flowers, measuring 

 eight inches in diameter, nearly equalling the Victoria in 

 size, and surpassing it in beauty. It was produced from 

 seeds by Sir Joseph Paxton in 1850, who planted them the 

 same year, and from these, "in the following summer, he 

 found himself in the possession of a most beautiful hybrid, 

 which he named Devoniensis, after the Duke, his patron." 

 It was produced by crossing A^. rubra with A', lotus. In 

 leaf and flower, in point of size and robustness of growth, it 

 has a great advantage over either of its parents ; but its most 

 valuable property is its continuing to flower the whole of the 

 season without intermission. The flowers are eight inches 

 in diameter, and the leaves seldom less than thirteen to seven- 

 teen inches across. 



This fine variety grows freely in "rough turf, taken from 

 a pasture and laid in a heap one year previous to its being 

 used, with one-sixth of dried cow-dung." The water in the 

 tank in which it grows is kept from 75° to 80°. 



We hope Mr. Cope, who has been so successful with the 

 Victoria, will add this to his collection : flowering in the 

 same tank, its deep red flowers would make a splendid con- 

 trast with the paler ones of the Victoria. [Bot. Mag., Aug.) 



