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THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



Crisp-leaved Buddleia. 



great deal. We copy the follo\ving descrip- 

 tion from " Paxton's Flower Garden:" 

 " Among all the plants exhibited in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society last 

 May, 'none excited such universal in- 

 terest as that now represented. It 

 formed a small umbrella-like creeper 

 trained over trellis, the whole circum- 

 ference of which was loaded with pen- 

 dulous racemes of most beautiful large 

 yellow and crimson flowers. The plant 

 was sent to Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, 

 from the Mysore country, which it in- 

 habits, as its name indicates. No doubt 

 it is the best hot-house climber that has 

 been introduced for many years. It is 

 added, that before the plant is out of 

 bloom, the pendulous flower-stalks are 

 from two to two and a half feet long. 



Spirea grandiflora Large-flowered Spi- 

 rea. Nat. order Rosacece. (See Figure.) 

 This remarkable plant was sent by Mr. 

 Fortune, under the name of Amelanchier 

 racemosa, from the north of China ; and 

 it is certain that its conspicuous, large 

 flowers cannot fail to recommend it as a 

 very desirable, ornamental, and shrub- 

 bery plant. The habit and foliage are 

 that of an Amelancheir; but the struc- 

 ture of the flowers point to the genus 

 Spiraea. The calyx-tube is remarkable 

 in form, much contracted below, then 

 suddenly at the narrow faux expanded 

 and recurved, and the whole lined with 

 a fleshy disc, at the end of which the 

 fifteen stamens are inserted in threes. 

 The species is extremely different from 

 any hitherto described. Curtis 's Bo- 

 tanical Magazine. 



Buddleia crisp a, " Crisp-leaved Buddleia," 

 from Western Himalaya, at an elevation 

 of from five thousand five hundred to seven 

 thousand five hundred feet above the level 

 of the sea, and a very desirable shrub for 

 "English" gardens, where it requires the 

 protection of a wall flowering from the 

 beginning of February until May, and 

 scenting the air around with its fragi-ance. 

 DESCRIPTION. A shrub from twelve to 

 fourteen feet high ; branches opposite ob- 

 tusely tetragonal, the younger ones densely 

 covered with tawny or ferruginous down. 

 Leaves on woolly petioles, one quarter of 

 an inch long, ovate or oblong, the lower 

 ones cordate at the base, upper ones 



