300 Floricultural and Botanical Jfotices. 



F. corymbifldra, of which there is here a plant, was not in 

 very good condition to bloom; but Mr. Wilder hopes to flow- 

 er it during the season. 



The camellias were looking well, but were now out of flow- 

 er; fseveral new ones have been recently received from France. 

 C. var. Wilderi is growing vigorously, and will soon again be- 

 come sufficiently strong for blooming. Mr. Wilder pointed 

 out to us a few pots of seedling lilies, being the production of 

 seeds raised from the L. speciosum, lancifolium album, tigri- 

 num, and others, impregnated with one another by various 

 crosses. Something good, we trust, will come out of them. 

 We have thought, for some time, that there was quite a field 

 for improvement in this family; so varied are the colors and 

 the habits of the different species, that we are assured some 

 singularly pretty varieties might be produced. 



In the open garden, we were particularly struck with the 

 size and beauty of a few roots of Myatt's Victoria rhu- 

 barb: it will prove, we think, the finest variety in cultivation. 

 A bed of Hovey's seedling strawberry, set out on a piece of 

 ground trenched two feet deep, was looking finely, the plants 

 throwing up foliage of immense size, and vigorous runners al- 

 ready emitted from the roots. On one side of the bed, at 

 the distance of six or eight feet, Mr. Wilder has also a bed of 

 Early Virginias, which will serve to fertilize the bed of seed- 

 lings. The fruit trees were looking uncommonly vigorous and 

 healthy. 



Belmont Place, J\Ir.Cushing''s. — This beautiful place is now 

 in fine order; the plants are all removed from the houses, and 

 placed in their summer quarters in the rear of the large range 

 of houses. In one of the stoves we noticed the pitcher plant, 

 (JVepenthes dislillatoria,) with upwards of a dozen of its sin- 

 gular pitchers, the largest full eight inches long, and more than 

 an inch in diameter. We here also saw a plant of the cele- 

 brated Fejee Island tomato, of which so much was said last 

 year, and seeds of which were sent home by the exploring ex- 

 pedition. The plant has full as much the appearance of an egg 

 plant as the tomato; it seems intermediate as regards its foliage. 

 It was showing two of its fruit, about the size of a large egg; 

 the form is a roundish oval, and the color of the skin nearly 

 white. The fruit is not yet ripe. It undoubtedly requires a 

 longer season to perfect Jts growth than the egg plant, and on 

 that account, unless it should prove a remarkable table fruit, it 



