of new and beautiful Plants. 227 



the way of E. truncatum, a large plant in bloom would be one 

 of the most showy objects, in the green-house, in May and 

 June. 



Dahlia repens is the name of a very pretty little annual, 

 growing one foot or more high, with single purple flowers, 

 about the size of half a dollar. Cut flowers, from plants grown 

 in the green-house of T. Lee, Esq., were exhibited by him at 

 a late meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Garden Memoranda. JVotices of Green-houses and Ga7'- 

 dens in Philadelphia. — The season is getting rather late to 

 continue my remarks on the green-houses and gardens of this 

 city. Many of the plants are put out for the summer, and 

 others have done flowering for the spring. 



Messrs. Landreth & Fulton's, in Federal Street, the well 

 known garden and nursery, has been in fine condition. Mr. 

 Landreth having very lately associated with him in his business, 

 Mr. Fulton, a first-rate gardener and propagator, and besides, 

 a gentleman, will be ready at any time to supply his customers 

 as formerly. In the green-houses, I noticed a great quantity 

 of young thriving plants of various kinds, among which were 

 many roses. 1 saw here the finest specimen, I believe, in 

 the country, of the iJhododendron arboreum, and 1 think the 

 first one introduced into the country. It had been in full 

 flower, and was now full of seed, from which Messrs. Lan- 

 dreth & Fulton intend to raise a stock of plants. In walking 

 through the garden, I was most gratified to see our native 

 azaleas in full bloom; among them were the calendulacea, 

 crocea, pontica, nudiflora coccinea, and some beautiful pale 

 straw-colored hybrids, with great trusses of very large flowers. 

 The halesias, with their delicate snow-drop looking blos- 

 soms, the Chionanthus virginica or fringe tree, and the Cor- 

 nus paniculata were exceedingly showy. A variety of mag- 

 nolias, among which were the M. glauca, tripetala, acuminata, 

 cordifolia, and grandiflora, were splendid. Many other native 

 trees and shrubs in this old nursery have a fine appearance. 

 It is almost unaccountable that our fine squares were not filled 

 with specimens of the above, and other trees equally desira- 

 ble, that could have been readily obtained at Bartram's Bo- 

 tanic Garden: they might then have been botanical gardens for 

 future generations to study from. Instead of this, they are 

 filled with the button-wood (Platanus occidentalis,) and the 



