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New Hydrangea. — The ornamental capabilities of H. Hortensia and 

 H. Japonica are well known ; but these by no means exhaust the floral beauty 

 with which the Hydrangea family is capable of embellishing our gardens, as 

 some recent acquisitions from Japan testify. One of these, shown on a reduced 

 scale in the accompany sketch, is the Hydrangea stellata proltfera, a double or 

 proliferous-flowered state of the H. stellata of Siebold and Zuccarini, and of 

 which the separate flower is represented of about the natural size. This novelty 

 was introduced to European gardens by M. Maximowicz, and flowered last June 

 in the Botanic Garden of St. Petersburg, where it is regarded as a worthy rival 

 of the old Hortensia. Its habit is shrubby ; its leaves are ovate-oblong, acumi- 



nate, and serrated ; and its radiate flowers, which grow in very large terminal glo- 

 bose cymes, are mostly sterile and proliferous, producing several smaller flowers 

 of a similar kind in the centre of each, these opening of a yellowish-green, and 

 changing to rose-color. The inflorescence thus becomes a dense head of double 

 star-shaped, sterile, rosy flowers, and must be of a very ornamental character. 

 Dr. Reo-el, who gives a good colored figure in his " Gartenflora " (t. 521), states 

 that the plants require the same treatment as the common hydrangea. It is 



