276 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



greenhouse. It is a superb plant. Every branch is terminated 

 with a very large globular corymb of beautiful pink or rose- 

 colored flowers, which retain their beauty a long time. It is 

 a most valuable acquisition. {Bot. Mag., Oct.) 



309. Phyge^lius cape'nsis E. Mcy. Cape Phygelius. 



(Scrophulariacea3.) Australia. 



A greenhouse or frame plant ; growing three feet high; with scarlet flowers ; appearing in sum- 

 mer; increased by cuttings ; grown in light rich soil. Bot. Mag., 1855, pi. 4881, 



A most brilliant plant, having much the appearance of a 

 Pentstemon, throwing up tall panicles of scarlet, tubular 

 shaped blossoms, which are displayed in profusion during the 

 summer months. It is a perennial plant, from the Witbergen 

 mountains, and may be wintered in the greenhouse and prob- 

 ably in a frame. In the spring it should be turned out into 

 the open border, where it will bloom freely. It is quite as 

 showy as the scarlet salvia, and will prove a great acquisition. 

 (Bot. Afao-., Nov.) 



310. Delphi'nium cardina^le Hooker. Scarlet-Flowered 



Larkspur. (Ranunculacea3.) California. 



A hardy annual; growing three feet high; with scarlet flowers; appearing in summer; in- 

 creased by seeds ; grown in light rich soil. Bot. Mag. 1855, pi. 4887. 



It is singularly unfortunate that, among the mass of emigra- 

 tion to California, not a single person should be found with 

 taste enough for beautiful plants to select and send home 

 some of the seeds of the fine things which spring up in 

 abundance in many of the most easily accessible portions of 

 that land of flowers ; and that we should be entirely beholden 

 to English collectors for the introduction of our own Ameri- 

 can plants. Yet so it is ; for, since the acquisition of Califor- 

 nia, we are not aware of a dozen plants, of any real value, 

 having been introduced by our own countrymen. 



This magnificent Delphinium is one of the common Cali- 

 fornia flowers, which Mr. Quant, formerly gardener to the 

 late Col. Perkins, writes us grows in abundance, near him, 

 at Alameda. All who know the beauty of the common Bee 

 larkspur can readily imagine how showy must that species be 

 like it in habit and growth, but with much larger scarlet 



