448 Ploricultural and Botanical Notices 



yiburnum, sp., fine shrubs with A'cersp. from Japan, 



large, round heads, like the Pinus sp. from Japan, 



Guelder rose, Oak from Chusan, 



Edgeworthia chrysantha, Juniperus, sp. north of China, 



iSpirae^a prunif61ia fl. pleno, i?6sa, sp. (a curious anemone flowered 



Hydrangea, sp., from the woods, kind,) 



Shanghae peach, a fine large var., 130 plants of tree pasonies in twelve 



Prunus sinensis, fl. alba pleno, or fourteen varieties. 



Birberis (Mahonia) Fortun?', Seeds of the true Shantung Cabbage, 



Spirae'a sp. a very valuable northern kind. 



The whole number of plant cases sent home was 69. As all 

 the, fine plants were duplicated, only two are lost to the coun- 

 try. The others are growing well, and will soon be distrib- 

 uted from the Garden of the Society. 



Neiv Species of Salvia. — I have a new Salvia now in bloom 

 raised from seed gathered in the Rio Grande, by Dr. Conrad, 

 a surgeon in the United States Army. The seed was sent in 

 a letter last April : the plant is now four feet high, and in full 

 bloom : the leaves resemble the /Salvia fulgens, but somewhat 

 larger : the flowers lighter than the fulgens but darker than 

 the splendens. The plant blooms much better than the ful- 

 gens at the lateral shoots, and it is quite showy. — Yours, T. 

 Allen, Winchester Gardens, Va. [We suspect this is the same 

 species which we have already noticed, (p. 246) as in bloom 

 in the collection of Mr. John Feast of Baltimore, and which 

 ' he calls S. Rhodenwaldii, from the seed having been received 

 from Texas, and given him by Mr. Rhodenwald of New Or- 

 leans. Mr. Feast gave us a few seeds, from which we raised 

 plants last spring, which were planted out in the border, 

 and made a most brilliant show till frost. It seeds free- 

 ly, and, treated as an annual, it must be ranked as one of the 

 finest things of late introduction. Young plants raised from 

 cuttings are now coming into bloom in the stove, and we 

 suspect it will prove a valuable winter plant, blooming as it 

 does more freely than either ^S*. fulgens or splendens, and, in 

 our opinion, more delicate and beautiful than either of those 

 old kinds. — Ed.] 



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liUDDLE'A L. 



LmWeydna Fortune The purple Chinese Buddlea. A half hdrdy shrub •, growing three feet 

 hish; with purple flowers; appearing in summer; a native of China; increased by cuttings. Hot. 

 Reg. 1846. pi. 4. 



