298 J^otices of new and beautiful Plants 



it is true we occasionally find the globosa, gracilis, and one or 

 two other varieties or species, but we have few of the fine ones 

 which have been produced from seed by the experiments of the 

 Enghsh amateurs, with the tribe, within the few past years. Nor 

 does their cultivation appear to be understood; generally speak- 

 ing the plants are mere stunted branchy shrubs, with a few flow- 

 ers, and yellow sickly foliage. We have seen the gracilis in one 

 or two collections grown to the height of five feet, and it was 

 then a superb object; but such specimens are rare, and where a 

 plant is found of this size, ten may be found which are not a foot 

 high. All the species and varieties are valuable for planting out 

 in clumps, in the border, or in beds by themselves, where they 

 flower abundantly the whole season. They are so easily raised 

 that we hope to see them in every garden having any pretensions 

 to beauty. 



F. tenella and Youngi var. grandiflora are now both blooming 

 at Mr. Towne's, in Snowhill Street, Boston: the latter is said 

 to be very splendid, and one of the best that has been raised. 

 HosdcecB. § Pomecc. 



STRANV^'SM (The Honorable Wm. Fox Ptransways, F. R. S., is so well known in this 

 country I'or a learneil and indefatis;able investigator of the Flora of Europe, as to render 

 superfluous any justification of the name now proposed for a most distinct and remark- 

 able genus. — Liiulloj.) 

 glanccscens Lindl. syn: CratiP'gus glaiica JVaUicli Grey-leaved Stranvresia. A green-house 

 shrub ; grovvins; upwards of twelve feet high ; with white flowers ; appearing in June : 

 propagated by grafting or budding upon the common thorn : a native of Nepal. Bot. Reg., 

 1956. 



This is a very beautiful new evergreen, which was first brought 

 to England by Dr. Wallich, ten or eleven years since, and 

 placed in the garden of the London Horticultural Society, under 

 the name of Cratae^gus glauca ; it has been extensively distributed, 

 and is now quite common in the private collections and nurseries 

 of Britain. " In the neighborhood of London the species is 

 scarcely more hardy than a myrtle, but it grows very well against 

 a wall, when it is protected, and in such a situation it flowers in 

 the month of June." Its worst habit is its pushing too early in 

 the spring, which exposes it to damage by frosts; and this is 

 said to happen in its native country, as the dried specimens dis- 

 tributed by the East India Company appear to have suffered by 

 some such accident. It is a tree of medium size, evergreen, 

 leaves coriaceous, lanceolate, acute, and serrated, something hke 

 those of Photinia integrifulia; flowers white, in dense, many- 

 flowered corymbs, which must have a beautiful appearance. The 

 genus is one of the most remarkable in the sub-order Pomeae of 

 iJosaceae, in consequence of its truly capsular five-valved fruit, 

 resembling a pomme only so far as the fleshy calyx is concerned. 

 In no other pomeous genera is there any tendency to a separa- 

 tion of the capsules into valves. [Bot. Rcf^.^ May.) 



This species will prove a valuable hardy plant south of the 

 Potomac, and would be a desirable one to grow in pots, in the 



