i8o Notes and Gleanings. 



flowers are white, the fruit yellowish : requires plenty of room for full develop- 

 ment. 



C. lobata pendula^ a fast free-growing tree of elegant pendulous outline ; the 

 leaves are unequally lobed, the flowers are white, and produced in loose corymbs. 

 Requires plenty of room for full development. 



C. 0. pcndula nova^ a new "weeping" variety of hawthorn of extremely elegant 

 habit ; admirably adapted for a spacious lawn, or for a good open position in the 

 arboretum. 



C. pyracajitha^ one of the finest of all evergreen wall-trees, and rather scarce. 

 Once seen in autumn, with its huge bunches of scarlet-orange berries contrast- 

 ing finely against its dark-green leaves, it can never be forgotten. Why we 

 should so seldom meet with this tree, both in gardens and nurseries, is to us a 

 mystery. It cannot be that there is any difficulty in propagating it, because it 

 may be raised from seed with certainty, and also from cuttings taken at the end 

 of July, and kept close in a pit or frame for six months. We have grown this 

 thorn largely in pots, the trees being moderately shortened back with the knife 

 in autumn, and kept to about three feet in height. In autumn they are covered 

 with berries, and are employed with skimmias, &;c., in the plunging system, where 

 they light up the front lines of evergreen shrubs until the spring flowers begin 

 again. 



C. tanacetifolia, the tansy-leaved thorn ; a fine free-growing tree with deeply- 

 cut leaves, white flowers, and yellow berries. 



Less to be regarded as garden trees, yet deserving the first consideration of 

 the planter desirous of enriching the front lines of the shrubbery, and the knolls 

 and slopes of the home park, are such as C. crus-galli ^.nd. its several varieties, 

 bearing large berries, and presenting splendid leaf colors in autumn ; C. Layii, 

 one of the largest leaved and most distinct of thorns ; C. aronia^ bearing abun- 

 dance of yellow fruit. A dozen more might bfi added, but we have named 

 enough for the foundation of a collection. — S. H., in Floral World. 



Habrothamxus elegans. — A true greenhouse evergreen plant, native of 

 Mexico, introduced in 1844. "Flower? in the first month," says Paxton : he 

 should have said in all twelve ; for, if placed in the right position, there is not 

 a day in the year but you may find good flowers on this plant. That position is 

 against a pillar in a conservatory, where it can run up to its full height ; and 

 its fat shoots, that keep bursting up so determinedly when the plant is cramped 

 in pots or cut in too much in any position, satisfy themselves, and break out 

 into gracefully-pendant shoots that hang down, tipped with rich bunches of car- 

 mine flowers, good " for cutting" and embellishment of most kinds. It is not 

 the least fastidious about soil, and will grow "anywhere " in a conservatory; 

 best suited, however, for large ones, where it may not be necessary to cut in the 

 free-flowering growth that spreads so widely round a pillar. It is one of those 

 plants that might be the better for removal and replanting after four or five years' 

 work, as it then might get exhausted ; which is not the case with the plumbago. 

 Other species may be as good, or better, and are worth trying in this way. — 

 Floral World. 



