162 Notes and Recollections of a Tour. 



apparently dwarfer habit and a freer flowerer than the com- 

 mon one, as it was in bloom, though not more than eighteen 

 inches high. A new species or variety of Lisianthus, called 

 glaucescens, with paler flowers than RusselKdwMS, was in 

 bloom, and very handsome. We also saw Achimenes mul- 

 tiflora in flower, though nearly over, and its neat fringed lilac 

 blossoms render it desirable in every collection of this fine 

 tribe. Mr. Glendenning has been successful in producing 

 several hybrid gloxinias, which we have already noticed, 

 (p. 33,) and some of which were in flower: G. Cartoni is 

 one of the best. That beautiful and fragrant annual, Mar- 

 tynia fragrans, was finely in bloom ; its large spotted flowers 

 exhale a delicious odor ; it should be brought forward in a 

 good brick heat, and is indispensable in fine collections. 



Among the new plants, though not in bloom, we noticed 

 the following : Crowea saligna latifolia. Gardenia Sher- 

 bourma, ^S'pirse'a Lindleyd/ia, Kennedia pannosa, Corrse^a 

 Goodii, Chorizema Dicksonii, /Statice magniflora, Pimelea 

 spectabilis, (a superb specimen,) Diplodae'nia crassinodes, 

 (formerly ^chites carassa,) £'chites splendens and atropur- 

 purea, with many others. Two new scarlet geraniums, of 

 dwarf habit, called King and Gen. Tom Thumb, were point- 

 ed out to us by Mr. Glendenning as very beautiful ; the scar- 

 let geraniums are planted in great quantities, in beds, in the 

 open garden, in summer, and those of dwarf habit and bril- 

 liant colors, as well as large umbels of flowers, are exceed- 

 ingly desirable ; Smith's scarlet grows too tall for this pur- 

 pose. New seedling azaleas are now raised in quantities, 

 and Mr. Glendenning had several grown by Mr. Frost, of 

 Dropmore, said to be very fine. That brilliant plant, Ges- 

 nera zebrina, had thrown up its tall spikes of scarlet flow- 

 ers, and was now in its greatest beauty ; it should be in 

 every collection of plants. A small house of heaths contained 

 many excellent specimens of the finer kinds, but only a few 

 of them were in bloom. 



In the open garden we noticed a great stock of roses which 

 had just been budded ; the stocks are grubbed up in the 

 woods, in the spring, and are purchased at a cent each or 

 less, and in the autumn they are ready for budding. We 

 saw great quantities of a pink called Anne Boleyn, which is 



