418 Ploricultural and Botanical Notices 



flowered in the collection of M. Van Houtte. The flowers 

 " are of a beautiful yellow and form an agreeable contrast to 

 the dark purple and varied shades of the foliage." It flour- 

 ishes well in the open ground during summer, but should 

 be taken up again in September and placed in a frame, and 

 afterwards removed to the greenhouses, where the plants will 

 flower finely. It is stated to be a fine acquisition. 



Double flowering Currant. — A double flowering variety of 

 the Ribes sanguineum has been produced, the color of which 

 is fully equal to the parent, the habit and growth of the plant 

 being the same. It has excited the admiration of all who 

 have seen it. 



Glandular leaved Almond tree ^ (Amygdalus glandulosa.) A 

 charming little shrub, under this name introduced by Siebold, 

 is now cultivated to considerable extent by some of the 

 French nurserymen. In April it is covered with pretty rose 

 colored flowers, which have numerous stamens. Its shoots 

 are slender and its leaves straight, lanceolate, and sharp point- 

 ed. From its habit it appears to be a kind of plum, having 

 much affinity to Prunus chinensis which nurserymen call 

 the double Dwarf Almond ; and perhaps is only the single 

 flowered type of that species. It is quite hardy. 



Camjjcmula grandiflhra^ which has long been lost to the 

 collections of England, has been reintroduced by Mr. Fortune, 

 in his expedition to China. Seeds were sent to the Horticul- 

 tural Society marked, " a beautiful campanulaceous plant, 

 with large blue flowers, resembling at a distance Lisianthus 

 Russellidw?^5." The plants have flowered abundantly, and 

 their easy cultivation renders it a desirable species. 



Syjjhocampylos coccineus is the name of a fine new species 

 of this showy genus, lately introduced by Messrs. Veitch 

 &/ Co. and now offered for sale. It is a free blooming green- 

 house shrub, of fine habit. 

 Onagrareoi. 



FU'CHS/^ 



serratifdlia Ruiz if Pavon Saw-leaved Fuchsia. A greenhouse shrub ; growing 4 feet high ; 

 with Vermillion and green flowers ; appearing in summer ; a native ol'Peru increased by cuttings; 

 cultivated in a rich soil. Bot. Reg. 1845 t- 41. 



" Nothing attracted the attention of visiters at the July ex- 

 hibition of the Horticultural Society, more strongly than a 

 very fine plant of this beautiful new fuchsia, which seems 



