Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 315 



Art. VI. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of New and 

 Beautifid Plants figured in Foreign Periodicals ; with De- 

 scriptions of those recently introduced tOy or originated i?i, 

 American Gardens. 



Achimencs patens. — This new and beautiful species, which 

 has been figured in the Journal of the London Horticultural 

 Society, and pronounced one of the most beautiful of all that 

 have yet been introduced, is now finely in flower in our col- 

 lection. It is a fine species, having a compact and neat 

 habit, with small, deep-green, shining foliage, and flowers of 

 the richest violet hue, about the size of A. grandiflora, and 

 fringed at the edge of the corolla. 



Platycbdon grandifihrum — a most beautiful campanula- 

 ceous plant — is no\v coming into flower. It is represented as 

 the most showy of all the campanulas, to which genus it 

 has been stated to belong, under the name of C. grandiflo- 

 rum. 



Hydrangea japonica has been one of the most popular and 

 generally admired plants in our collection. Our engraving, 

 at p. 123, gives a fine representation of its habit of growth 

 and bloom. Its great attraction consists in the contrast be- 

 tween the outer flowers and the inner ones, the former being 

 large and white, while the latter are small and of a deep blue. 

 It is of the simplest cultivation, and must become an indis- 

 pensable addition to every collection of plants. 



10. Da'phne FoRTU^Ni Lindl. Mr. Fortune's Daphne, (Encacecs). 



A half hnrdy shrub ; growing two to three feet high ; with lilac hlossonvs ; appearing in spring ; 

 a native of China; increased by cuttings and grafting; cultivated in peat and loam. Journal of 

 HQrt.Soc.Vol. II. p. ^4. 



This "charming shrub" is one of Mr. Fortune's discoveries 

 in China, where it was found growing in a nursery garden 

 near Shanghae, in the winter of 1843. Being deciduous, it 

 was then leafless, but, as it was taken to the south of China, 

 to be shipped with the other plants, the warmth forced it into 

 bloom, and it proved to be a fine shrub. The next spring, 

 Mr. Fortune found it growing wild on the hills in the province 

 of Chekiang, where it forms a dwarf shrub two to three feet 

 high. In March and April, the flower-buds expand, and then 



