250 J^otices of new and beautiful Plants 



[We shall be extremely happy to hear from our correspondent 

 often: for the above gratifying information Mr. Gordon will 

 please accept our sincere thanks. — Cond.l 



Art. IV. JVotices of new and beautiful Plants figured in the 

 London Floricultural and Botanical Magazines; xcith 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 Plants 

 and Shrubs. In monthly numbers; 4s. colored, 3s. plain. Ed- 

 ited by John Lindley, Ph. D., F. R. S., L. S., and G. S. Pro- 

 fessor of Botany in the University of London. 



Curtis's Botanical Magazine, or Flower Garden Displayed, con- 

 taining eight plates. In monthly numbers: 3s. 6d. colored, 3s. 

 plain. Edited by Sir W. J. Hooker, L.L. D., F. R. A., 

 and L. S., Regius Professor of Botany in the University of 

 Glasgow. 



Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants. 

 Each number containing four colored plates. In monthly num- 

 bers; 2s. Qd. each. 



The Horticidiural Journal, Florist's Register, and Royal Ladies' 

 Magazine. Dedicated to the Queen, Patroness, the Rt. Hon. 

 the Earl of Errol, President, and the Vice Presidents of the 

 Metropolitan Society of Florists and Amateurs, In monthly 

 8vo numbers, with a plate; Is. each. 



Dicotyledonous, Polypetalous, Plants. 

 "Ranunculdcece. 



Z)ELPHI'NIUM 

 var. BarI6wit (garden variety) Barlovv'a Delphininm. A hardy perennial plant; growing 

 from six to eiglit feet liigh; with blue flowersj appearing in summer; increased by divis- 

 ion of the root. Bot. Reg., 1944. 

 /delphinium phoenicium of some catalogues. 



This is a very splendid double variety of the larkspur, " pre- 

 senting to the eye," as Dr. Lindley remarks, " the most gor- 

 geous mass of lapis-lazuli blue that he is acquainted with in 

 the vegetable kingdom." Messrs. Rollinsons, of Tooting, from 

 whose garden the specimen was furnished, from which the draw- 

 ing was taken, state that they received it from a friend in Man- 

 chester several years ago, under the name of Z)elphinium Bar- 

 lovvit, and they believe it to have been raised by a florist of that 

 name in the neighborhood of Manchester: undoubtedly it is a 



