20 Xtfficrs (j/' /icii' and inU resting Planls. 



of these remarks is |)ossil>1y fnmilinr to every grower of georginas, a reeoril of actual cases i< valaablf, 

 aa furninhiiig data for »iil)sit|uciit and ultimate iiifiTcnces. 



Ill C'oiiii)''iMtir, only the Ibllou ing have, within the writer's recent olwcrvation, l)ecn observed in 



blossom: (.'iiicrikria'cruenta ^for able diri-ctions for cultivating this beautiful plant with Micccss ice 



Vol. U. l>. l.'>o.' ; AVJfl Kr.icilis, which is really an interesting plant; Agath^'a nmelloldes, but which 

 seems scarcely in season ; and /'yrfethruin grandiflbrum. C'alciidula graminifulia, at Young's, will l>e in 

 bloom in a week or so; its bl(>s9om-> arc very showy. I'hceni'.conia prolifera here and there displays a 

 ruby head. In the open air, in sheltered spots, one beneath a house wall in a town garden, T^issiliigo 

 frikgrans, displays iLs flowers in numerous racemes : these are not conspicuous, but clegaiit on close 

 inspection, and for their fragrance past all praise. 



CXCI. Caprifolihce(e. 

 621. CAPRI FO'UUM. 

 SSlOtia occidentile IJnill. western _i or 20 jn.au O Ft.Vancouv.l824. C co Bot. reg. 1457 



Resembles the common honeysuckle, but is not so hardy. It has very ornamental orange-coloured 

 flowers, but not good foliage ; is near akin to C. cilibsum, DougUs/t, and parviflC>rum. [Bot. Reg.) 



fhirsiitum Vcns. hMy-leaved ^ or 20 my.jn Y Canada 1822 C co Bot mag. 3103 

 Lonicfer« hirsCita Ealon in his Manual of Botany, Hooker in Curt. Bot. Mag., 3103. Caprifblium 

 pubescens of Loudon's Uorl. Brit., No. ;V213., and of Hooker's Eiotic Flora, 27. ; but Dr. Hooker hav- 

 ing since learned that Mr. l-iiton, an American botanifst, was the first to publish this species, and by 

 the name of Lonicfeni hirsMii, in his Manual of Botany, now thinks it right to reinstate Eaton's name. 

 PcrhaiK Dr. Hooker, by retaining the plant under Lonicfera, does not acknowledge the genus Capri, 

 folium. 



/'ibi'imum T'lnus is now partially in blossom every where. I', rugbsum is trained to the front of a 

 green. house, outside, at Colvill's, and retains its foliage well, but the leaves are not the prettiest Ivy, 

 " green and shining," looks every where refreshingly. 



CC. PolvmoniAcets. 

 472. PHLOX. 

 3922/1 arisUita B. C. awned I, ^ pr J ap W Carolina ... C p.l Bot cab. 1731 



A species with almoist the foliage and habit of AsetJkcea, and with blossoms apparently white, and 

 resembling somewhat those of P. niv&lis. If this be the P. aristMa of Michaux, it proves the latter to 

 be distinct enough from P. pil6sa Bot Mag., with which P. aristata has been thought identical. 



CCVII. Primuhlcett. 



PRI'MULA ciliJita. Corollas pale flesh-coloured. A light loam suits it well, and the plant is readily 

 increased by parting. It is admirably adapted for rockwork, where its showy and early blossoms, it being 

 one of the earliest of the auricula tribe, cannot fail to attract notice in the spring. Drawn from Col. 

 vill's. {Swt. Ft. Gar. 2. s. 123.) 



Primula prie'nitcns, lilac and white, is in bloom wherever kept This comparatively hardy (it will • 

 thrive thoroughly in a we!l-as|H;cteii frame), freely growing, abundantly blooming species is an important 

 imjKjrtation, far more so than those unique i)lanls which are with difficulty kept alive, and still more diffi- 

 cultly cultivated : hence the value of the Horticultural Society's introductions, through the agency of 

 Mr. Douglas. Primula Palinilri' is (Jan. 15.) in bloom in a green-house at Colvill's. Cyclamen c6um 

 and vcrnum are in l)l(K)m about in pits and fi-ames ; and of C. persicum fr&grans saw a plant in blossom 

 at Dennis's, and one at Young's. 



CCXI. Scrophularina. 

 m. CALCEOLAMUA. 

 .TOn [YoOng/i Hort] Young's hi/hrid ^ lAI 'P' 3 my.o OchSpotEng. hybrid 1R30. D r.m Bot reg. 144S 

 On this remarkably splendid hybrid, and on other hybrid calceolarias, some remarks are offered, 

 p. 48. 



C. nlantagfnea. " Flourishes in a strong red loam and cool situation, and yields a (dentiful increase 

 by ofl»et8." Bot. Card .^iS., Oct. 1831.) 



C. arachn'iUlea. This has been proved nearly hardy in various gardens, and is a native of high eleva. 

 tions in Chile. There " many |)eople are employed in digging up the roofs, which they dry and collect 

 in bundles for sale, the plant being in great use there, for dyeing woollen cloths of a deep crimson colour. 

 Thenlum earth employed as a mordant in the process is obtained in abundance from a mountain in the 

 neighbourhood." {Bot. Rrg. 1464, Nov. 1831.) 



•178.Trt. I.V.t'COCA'UPU.S /). Don. Lkicoc arim s. (7.ru*o4, white, and *rtrpo», fVuit) 14. 2. Scrophuldrime. 

 nViUMi. I). I),m. winge<l-a/rtM,Y/ O ? cu 2 o \ Vera Cruz 18.30. S p.l Sw.fl.gar.2.6.124 



Coiif)tH'n alata (Iraknin, .Uimulus |H-rl'oli(ktus Hot. Mag. 3(»7li. 



Agrees so entirely with .Vlmulus, both in general appearance and in the form and structure of its 

 flowers, that, without the fruit, no one can doubt the propriety of referring it to that genus ; but its 

 white iH-rries being oniv mwii, it will Ik- evident that the plant can neither Ix' referred to jViniulus nor 

 " to any other genus hitherto establishetl among the Scrophulariniv." Expecti-il to prove hardy. Pub- 

 li»he<l from Whitley and Co.'s, Fulham. 



1787. TOUK^N/.^. 



scMira tVrnA. rough /cnivf/ \Q1 pr 1 ... P Morefon Bay IS.X). S p Bot mag. 3104 



It hax opposite, lanceolate, green, serrate leaves, and its blue blossoms are funnel.chapcd, and an inch 

 in length. 



PKNsrrTMON puIchelluB. It was asserted in the Botanical Begister, t 1309., that seeds of the rare 

 IK-ntntemons cannot Iw raised in hi-at Part of the remark is in these words: — " It is indispensable 

 that theseeds should Ik- sown in a colli frame, or all endeavour to raise them will prove fruitless." 

 Mr. Maund, in ligiiring P. pulelu'llus, remarks, that, to prove or disprove this assertion, he sowed seeds 

 in a |>ot, and pl.-ucil them "in a rather warm hotlwd," where many stH-ds vegetated freely; and the 

 i>lanlH so raisetl (lowered well in the autumn. [Sowing them in a cold frame is, notwithstanding, doubU 

 less preferable, as Iwing more congenial to the natural mode. In natural dissemination, seeds are sown 

 as sotin as ri|H? ; in gardening, they are ottcn kept out of the soil until their vital energy is considerably 

 weakened, and then artiticial stimuli may be necessary to rouse it into .tot ion ] 



