174 Mtices of neio and beautiful Plants 



Not beautiful, but " one of the ;^nost deliciously fragrant shrubs in 

 the world. It is difficult to imagine any thing more delicate and grateful 

 than the sweet odor that its tender snow-white blossoms diffuse in the 

 conservatory, in the months of May and June." The plate represents 

 a leafless slender branch, from which spring out two lateral racemes of 

 flowers, somewhat resembling an orobus. It is a native of the shores 

 of the Mediterranean, extending along the coasts of Barbary, Sicily 

 and Greece, and gaining its eastern limit upon Mount Sinai. It cannot 

 bear the cold of the French shore. The drawing was taken from a 

 plant that flowered in the Epsom Nursery of the Messrs. Young. This- 

 will be a valuable addition to our green-houses, which are now so lim- 

 ited in their fragrant plants, and we hope will be speedily introduced. 

 (Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



JlCA'CiA 



vestita Cunn. Cunningham's Acacia. An evergreen green-hnuse shrub ; prowine from 

 four to six feet high Tflovvers bright yellow ; appearing in Afiril and May ; propagated by 

 cutUtips; grown in loam and peat; a native of New Holland. Paxt. ftlag. L'ot. 



One of the most graceful of this beautifid tribe of plants. The Jl. 

 longifolia, verticillata, armata and lophantha are old inhabitants of our 

 green-houses, and to some collections have been added many new spe- 

 cies; but we believe the Jl. vestita is rarely to be met with. Some 

 years since we saw a plant at Mr. Hogg's, New York, which, from our 

 faint recollection, resembled this: it is called conspicua in some cata- 

 logues, and this was the name under which the one we saw opened its 

 blossoms. They are produced in the greatest abundance upon all the 

 terminal shoots, which are gracefully pendant, and the foliage of the 

 plant is scarcely seen; we consider it as fixr more elegant than any of 

 the others we have seen, and it should be in every collection; its easy 

 growth and its great beauty entitle it to general cultivation. {Pax. 

 Mag. Bol., Aug.) 



ERYTHRrNA 

 Crista-j^illi i. Cock's-comb Coral Tree. A stove plant ; crowing from six to twelve feet 

 higli ; dowers velvety crimson ; appearing at various seasons; propagated by cuttings; 

 grown in Inain, peat and dung. Paxt. Mag. Bot. 



Though this has long been grown in the English gardens, and noticed 

 m all their works upon gardening, still it has not yet attracted a great deal 

 of attention among our amateurs or nurserymen; we rarely see it in the 

 collections of the former, and jjlants cannot generally be purchased of 

 the latter. We presume this has arisen from the supposition that it 

 could not be made to produce its brilliant blossoms without the aid of^ a 

 stove. It may, however, be treated in the same manner as the dahlia, 

 and its gorgeous spikes of flowers have a splendid appearance, in the 

 open garden, in autumn. To produce flowers at any other season, it 

 must have the temperature of the stove; but it will annually flower in 

 great perfection treated precisely like the dahlia. No garden should be 

 without a plant. {Pax. Mag. Bot., Sept.) 



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Ci\si Bonp. Cels's Hovea. A green-house shrub ; growing from two to four feet high ; 

 with blue flowers ; appearing in June and July; increased by cuttings and seeds; culti- 

 vated in sandy loam and peat. Pax. Wag. Bot. 



One of the handsomest of the New Holland Leguminacre, but diffi- 

 cult to cultivate, and rarely to be met with in collections; it has never 

 yet produced its flowers in this country, and plants are with difficulty 

 kept in a healthy state; it is one of those which puzzle all the efforts 

 of the amateur gardener In trying to bring to a flowering state. 

 The habit of the plant is not vigorous in its greatest health. The flow- 

 ers are produced in axillary clusters, in such numbers as to clothe the 

 branches with them, and being of a deep rich blue, have an elegant ap- 

 pearance. It is worthy all the care that can be given it, and we yet 

 hope it will be made to produce its blossoms in our green-houses. 

 {Pax. Mag. Bot., Dec.) 



