2/8 New Plants. 



comes, to endure any ordinary drought : indeed, a good lawn may be had 

 in the month of June. As to the kind of grass, I find that pure clean red- 

 top is good enough. White clover added, in about the proportion of one 

 bushel to four, makes a good mixture, of which four bushels to the acre is 

 not too much. P. Barry. 



Rochester, April, 1867. 



Musschia Wollastoni. — A Campanulaceous plant, introduced to Kew ten 

 or twelve years ago, from Madeira. It forms a large-leaved undershrub, 

 from two to six feet high, with oblong lanceolate leaves from one to two feet 

 in length, often purplish in color ; and has erect panicles, two feet in length, 

 of large yellowish-green flowers. It requires a cool greenhouse. — V Illus- 

 tration Horticole. 



Dipladenia amabilis. — A gorgeous stove-climber, raised by Mr. Henry 

 Tuke, gardener to R. NichoUs, Esq., of Bramley near Leeds, and the 

 result of a cross between D. crassinoda and D. splendens. The plant 

 partakes somewhat of the habit of D. crassinoda; but it is of stronger 

 growth, with larger foliage. The blossoms open of a pale-bluish pink, 

 and gradually change to rose, until they finally attain to a richer and 

 deeper hue than that of D. crassinoda. The lobes of the corolla are more 

 rounded in form than in that plant ; and the flowers are not only of larger 

 size, but of a very showy character : they are, moreover, very freely 

 produced. — Floral Magazine. 



Ivy-leaved Pelargonium Silver Gem. — The leaves of this variety are 

 bright green, heavily edged with white, and, while young, are prettily zoned 

 with pink. The flowers are larger than in the common form, and of a 

 lilac-rose, blotched in the upper petals with purplish-crimson. Its chief 

 recommendation, however, is its foliage, which renders it peculiarly well 

 adapted for the edgings of beds and for baskets. — Ibid. 



Camellia Mrs. Domhrain. — Flowers large, with very small petals, closely 

 and regularly imbricated, of a delicate rose-color, becoming paler towards 

 the edges, and finely veined with a somewhat deeper rose. The leaves 

 are divided by the midrib in two unequal parts. — LPllustration Hortieole. 



