206 Floricultural and Botanical Notices 



eight plates ; with additional miscellaneous information, 

 relative to new plants. In monthly numbers ; 35. plain, 

 35, 6c?. colored. 



Paxton^s Magazi7ie of Botany, and Register of Flowering 

 Plants. Each number containing four colored plates. 

 Monthly, 25. 6c?. each. Edited by J. Paxton, gardener to 

 the Duke of Devonshire. 



The Gardener^ s Chronicle, a stamped newspaper of Rural 

 Economy and General News. Edited by Prof. Lindley. 

 Weekly. Price 6d each. 



Vloi'icultural and Botanical Notices. Pa7(ldrv7i'\a imperid- 

 lis. — This new and fine ornamental tree, at the Jardin des 

 Plantes, showed flower-buds in the autumn of 1841, which 

 stood the winter of, and came into flower on the 29th of 

 April, 1842 — thus proving the great hardiness of the tree 

 when it can ripen its wood. The flowers are of a fine 

 blue, somewhat like those of Gloxin/a caulescens, and 

 they have an agreeable smell, like those of Philadelphus. 

 The Paulownia has been propagated to an amazing extent 

 in France : so much so, that it is said to have produced 

 more money to Commercial Gardeners than any plant known. 

 The price is now about three francs. (^Annales d' Hort. 

 tome XXX. p. 406, translated in Gard. Mag.') 



New Cereus. — We have now in flower a splendid variety 

 of the cereus, very nearly resembling the C. speciosissimus. 

 The ground color of the flower is darker, but it is deficient 

 of the violet shade of the latter. In all other respects it is 

 a superior variety, and if we take into consideration that 

 the plant is of dwarfer and less robust habit, much like C. 

 Jenkensonz, and that it flowers as freely as that prolific va- 

 riety, and its flowers of equal size, we think we may place 

 it among the very best of the whole tribe. We have seen 

 no notice of a similar flower in the English periodicals. 

 We purchased the plant of Mr. Feast, of Baltimore, two 

 years ago, who stated that he received it from England. It 

 is only known to us by a private mark, Mr. Feast not hav- 

 ing yet given us any name. It is a superb addition. — Ed. 



New Varieties of Fuchsias. — Upwards of eighty varieties 

 of fuchsias are advertised in the English magazines; great 

 numbers of hybrids are raised every season, and many of 

 them are extremely beautiful. As this flower is likely to 



