446 Floricultural and Botanical Notices 



mense collection of plants, after an absence of three years. 

 Several of the new plants which he sent home have been fig- 

 ured in the botanical periodicals, and some few others have 

 been mentioned in the Gardener'' s Chronicle. In the July 

 number, however, of the Journal of the Hortictdtural Society^ 

 is a full account of Mr. Fortune's visit to China in search of 

 new plants, from his own pen ; it is very interesting, and we 

 wish we had room to transfer it all to our pages : but this we 

 cannot do, and must content ourselves with merely naming a 

 few of the fine things which he sent home, and which must 

 be most valuable additions to our hardy, as well as Green- 

 house, collections, of plants. 



The most important in the collection appear to be a new 

 double yellow climbing rose^ which Mr. Fortune first saw in 

 one of the Mandarin's gardens one fine morning in May, 

 when he was "struck with a mass of flowers which com- 

 pletely covered a distant part of the wall ; the color was not a 

 yellow, but had something of a bufi" in it, which gave the 

 flowers a striking and uncommon appearance. He imme- 

 diately ran up to the place, and, to his surprise and delight, 

 found he had discovered a most beautiful new yellow climb- 

 ing rose." He afterwards learned that it came from the North, 

 and will probably prove hardy in England. A rose^ called 

 \he Jive-colored^ was also discovered; it belongs to the Chinese 

 or Bengals, but sports in a very strange and beautiful manner, 

 sometimes having self-colored blooms, " either red or French 

 white, and frequently flowers of both on one plant at the same 

 time, while, at other times, the flowers are striped." It is as 

 hardy as the common China rose. A white Glycitie (Wista- 

 ria) sinensis^ with very large racemes of white flowers. 



Twelve or fourteen varieties of 7ieio i7-ee jiceonies, " having 

 flowers of various shades oi purple, lilac, dark red and white." 

 Many of these varieties Mr. Fortune saw in flower, and we 

 quote his account of the manner in which he obtained them 

 in order to show the obstacles he had to contend with in ob- 

 taining new plants, and the duplicity of the natives. Mr. 

 Fortune had drawings with him of the kinds which were said 

 to exist in the country. He showed them to a nurseryman 

 at Shanghae, who said he could get them at Sou-Chou, dis- 

 tant nearly a hundred miles, and, as the expense was great, 



