1 1 8 Notes and Gleanings. 



not so effective. Marcel\?, but the other self of Grand Lilas ; but, being also 

 suffused witli pale violet, it has a darker appearance. Delicata is a very pale 

 form of the old double blue flower Madame Marmont, but with finer and better 

 formed bells. 



Autocrat (W. Paul), awarded a first-class certificate, is a promising addition 

 to the single mauve class, and, when seen, appeared capable of being produced 

 much finer: resembling to some extent Feruk Khan, it is yet of a livelier hue, 

 having more of reddl^sh violet in the prevailing color, while the segments have 

 a perceptible stripe of black along them ; the bells are small, but well formed, 

 and set closely on the spike. Jcscho (Cutbush) has a reddish mauve tint, the 

 segments margined with a pale tint, small as shown, but a nice, bright-looking 

 flower, and shown fine last year at Amsterdam. Charles Dickens, a mauve-col- 

 ored variety, similar to Prince of Wales, is of a pale reddish hue, the bells 

 small, the spike close and compact. 



Prince /^//V^iar (Cutbush) is a single red variety of a deep rose color, some- 

 thing in the way of Von Schiller, but deeper and yet brighter in hue, of a pleas- 

 ing shade of color, and a promising flower. Eclipse (W. Pauly is a lively single 

 red variety, but, as shown, not first-rate. Mirandolin; (W. Paul) is a single red 

 kind, like VonSchiller, but darker, and having the same shape of bell. Scidowa 

 (Cutbush) is in the way of Florence Nightingale, of a deeper hue of color, but 

 the spike not so good. Agnes Sorrel and Orange Boven are two rose and nan- 

 keen colored varieties, produced from Due de Malakoff: the former has the 

 deepest color ; but both are very pretty and novel, and form good spikes. 



Of white flowers. Bijou Celeste (Cutbush) is a small forni of the huge-belled 

 single white variety Snowball : the bells are smooth, well shaped, and of the 

 purest white. La Grandesse is in the way of Mont Blanc, but with larger and 

 better bells. Michael Angela is an improvement on that fine but uncertain sin- 

 gle white variety, Madame Van der Hoop, and produces a larger, fuller, and 

 more reliable spike. Van Hobokcn, double white, though not new, is rarely seen, 

 because so unreliable : the individual bells, though good, are loosely hung on an 

 irregular spike. R. D. 



I RESINE LiNDENi. — Of the several species of the amaranthaceous order which 

 furnish highly-colored leaves for flower-garden decoration, this plant promises to 

 be one of the most useful. Its habit is dwarf and freely branched, producing an 

 abundance of twiggy shoots, which are clothed with lance-shaped leaves of mod- 

 erate size, and of a deep blood-red color, the midrib appearing as a broad pur- 

 plish band. This coloring, M. Van Houtte observes, is varied as the foliage is 

 moved by the wind, so that the plant presents different shades of violet, purple, 

 and deep rose, a deep-red hue predominating. It is said to grow from about a 

 foot and a half to two feet high ; and the leaves have this great advantage over 

 those oi Iresine Herbstii, irrespective of their better color, — that they present a 

 clean, flat, even surface, instead of one which is so concave as to appear distorted. 



Iresine Lindeni has been quite recently introduced from Ecuador by M. Lin- 

 den, by whom it was exhibited for the first time at the great Ghent show in 

 April last. It has subsequently passed into the hands of M. Van Houtte of 

 Ghent, by whom it is now being distributed. 



