348 Floricultural and Botanical Notices 



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VJEONIA 



Wittniaiudvfa Hartwiss The yellow Pfeony. A hardy shrub; growing two feet high; with 

 yellow (lowers; appearing in June; a native of Crimea ; cultivated in loam, peat and manure; 

 increased by cuttings. Bot. Reg. 1846, pi. 9. 



" A more remarkable acquisition than a yellow pseony, not 

 a pale, straw colored species, which is only a spoiled white, hut 

 a true, yellow flowered plant does not occur," consequently, it 

 might have been expected it would have been put on record 

 by the first botanist who saw it ; it appears, however, accord- 

 ing to Dr. Lindley, no mention of it is made in any work, not 

 even in the "last index of the St. Petersburg Garden, a place 

 so rich in hardy plants." 



All that is known of its history is, that it was received in 

 October, 1842, in the garden of the London Horticultural So- 

 ciety, from Mr. Hartwiss, director of the Nikita Garden, in 

 the Crimea, and is just mentioned in the London Journal of 

 Botany, for April, 1842, in a letter to Sir W. J. Hooker, from 

 Dr. Fischer, who states that it was sent from Abcharia, by 

 Count M. Worontzoff, with many other interesting plants. It 

 is named in honor of Mr. Wittman, a traveller in the Taurian 

 Caucasus, and afterwards gardener at Odessa. 



In the Garden of the Horticultural Society it is quite hardy, 

 growing where any other pa^ony will grow, and flowers in 

 May. It was nearly dead when received in 1842, and has 

 only been recovered by the good management of Mr. Gordon, 

 who has charge of the hardy department. The flowers re- 

 semble the common form of the single pseonies. diftering, 

 principally, in color, which is a bright yellow ; the leaves are 

 triternate. Its greatest value will be as a stock for the pro- 

 duction of double varieties, and, probably, a race of yellow, 

 or various shades of that colored flowers. It will undoubted- 

 ly continue scarce for some years. (^Bot. Reg., February.) 



