316 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



Seedlings without substance, if they possess the other 

 requisite quahties, should be discarded. Size is indispensa- 

 ble in show-flowers. 



Art. VII. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of New and 

 Beautiful Plants figured in Foreign Periodicals ; with 

 Descriptio7is of those recently introduced to^ or originated in, 

 American Gardens. 



Abu^tilon Bedfordia^num. — This is a new and very pretty 

 species, quite distinct in its foliage and flowers ; the leaves are 

 large and roundish, measuring six or eight inches in diameter ; 

 and the flowers, which are considerably larger than the old 

 striatum, are borne in clusters on long axillary stems, and 

 are of a pale dull yellow, striped and veined with light brown. 

 It is not quite so free a bloomer as the striatum, but its broad 

 and ample foliage, its stately habit, and the delicate shade of 

 its flowers, render it a desirable and pretty plant. It is now in 

 fine flower in our collection. 



LoNi'cERA sEMPERVi RENS, var. BRoVNii. — Uudcr this name 

 we have cultivated a new and beautiful variety of the scarlet 

 honeysuckle. The flowers are a little different in shape from 

 the old scarlet, and of a darker shade, and the stem on which 

 they are borne springs from the centre of a flat circular leaf, 

 giving it a neat appearance. The foliage is handsome, and 

 deeply tinged with reddish brown. It is a fine acquisition to 

 the honeysuckle tribe, and should be in every collection. It 

 is of easy cultivation, and is perfectly hardy. 



Groom's Hybrid Lilies. — At the time of our visit to Mr. 

 Groom's establishment near London, in the fall of 1844, of 

 which we have given a full account, (Vol. XI. p. 165,) we 

 saw, besides his superb collection of Japan lilies, a small bed 

 of lilies which he had produced by hybridization between 

 L. bulbiferum and atro sanguineum They had just gone 

 out of flower, but Mr. Groom praised them so highly that we 

 purchased his whole collection of eighteen kinds, at the round 

 price of £5. After our arrival home, for fear they might not 

 prove hardy in our climate, we cultivated them in pots, and 



