98 Descriptive Notice of Mr. Knevels's 



in the form and arrangement of its petals, to C. imbricata, 

 while the color was the most exquisite rose, something 

 similar, but more delicate and beautiful, than C. myrtifolia. 

 The foliage is also large and fine, and this charming new 

 variety will be prized as a valuable addition to this splendid 

 genus of plants. There are a number of very promising 

 seedlings, and Ave Avere shown the drawing of a superb one, 

 which flowered last winter while the plant was in Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



As Ave Avere passing out, Ave observed a beautiful green tea, 

 six or seven feet high, a tree Avhich Ave have no doubt Avill, 

 in time, become perfectly naturalized in the Southern States, 

 though we fear it will be a longer period before the low 

 price of labor in this country Avill enable us to compete prof- 

 itably with the Chinese, in the preparation of its leaves for 

 market. 



Leaving this structure, we next proceeded to the green- 

 house, Avhich includes the half of another building, the re- 

 maining part of the range being occupied Avilh hot-house 

 plants. We Avere immediately struck Avith the great profu- 

 sion of fruit of the orange tribe with Avhich the trees Avere 

 loaded. A number of these trees Avere the largest and finest 

 specimens Ave have seen in the country. They once formed 

 part of the collection of Mr. Hamilton, near Philadelphia, 

 the most celebrated in the States immediately after the rev- 

 olution, and some of them are of great age, but nevertheless 

 continue in the most vigorous and fruitful state. We ob- 

 served two large trees of the shaddock, and a fine one of 

 the citron, bearing their large and showy fruit. Mr. Knev- 

 els directed our attention to a seedling tree full of fruit, 

 which, he stated, Avas raised by Mr. Smith from a seed of 

 the lime. It had the appearance of the lemon, though the 

 skin was rather darker colored and more rugose than the 

 common variety of that species ; on tasting it, however, we 

 found it to be decidedly a lemon. If this tree therefore was 

 raised from seed of the lime, which Ave have every reason 

 to believe, it goes to prove, as some botanists have long as- 

 serted, that the lime is not a distant species, as is gener- 

 ally believed, but only a variety of the lemon, (Citrus lim- 

 onium). A tree of the Mandarin orange (C nobilis), Avas 

 plentifully laden with the very pretty fruit of that species. 

 We noticed also a small tree of the variety, called by the 

 French the Bouquet orange. The floAvers and fruit are 

 borne in clusters. The latter are quite singular in their ap- 

 pearance and grow sessile upon the branches. Among oth- 

 er varieties Ave also remarked the finger orange, the curious 

 fruit of Avhich resembles a hand Avith the fingers spread 

 open ; but the partially groAvn oranges had fallen during 

 transportation hither. 



