378 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



beautiful Drummondw', a large bed of which we observed 

 in flower with i\Ir. Groom; it is of a pure white, and does 

 not even show any tinge when the flowers are dying off". 

 It is an accidental variety, which sprnng up in some garden 

 around London, and is perpetuated by seeds. Patches of 

 it, planted out with the crimson and scarlet kinds, would 

 have a fine effect. It is quite invaluable in this respect, as 

 we have but few dwarf annuals, with pure white flowers, 

 suitable for bedding out. 



Ach'vinenes jActa. — Another pretty species has been ad- 

 ded to the list of Achimenes already introduced : it is called 

 picta, and is now in flower m the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, where we saw it a day or two ago. In general 

 appearance it resembles pedunculata, but with this differ- 

 ence — the lower half of the corolla is yellow and the upper 

 scarlet, which gives a painted and pretty eflject : the size of 

 the flower is a little larger, the throat more open and the 

 limb broader; add to this that its habit is not so tall, being 

 intermediate between pedunculata and longiflora, and a 

 good idea may be formed of its beauty. It is figured in 

 the Floricultural Cabinet, after the style of that work, but 

 it will soon appear in the Bot. Register. All the species of 

 Achimenes are every Avhere cultivated : we saw plants of 

 longiflora at Eton Hall, the seat of the Marquis of West- 

 minster, and at the Duke of Devonshire's, at Chatsworth, 

 with from one to two hundred flowers expanded at once; 

 the plants growing in pots about ten inches in diameter. 

 A multiflora we have not yet seen. 



Magnificent specimens of Fiichsirt corymhi flora and fid- 

 gens.- — Our cultivators have no conception of the splendor 

 of these two fuchsias; Ave do not recollect of ever seeing a 

 plant more than two or three feet high, among our collec- 

 tions; we have known some cultivators to throw aside 

 these two sorts altogether, as too coarse to deserve atten- 

 tion. This very fact shows that, in our tagerness to get 

 new things, we often throw aside those which are far su- 

 perior in beauty, merely because we have not bestowed 

 upon them sufficient care and time to bring them to per- 

 fection. The following are the dimensions of two plants, 

 one of each species, which we saw at Chatsworth: corym- 

 biflora, ten feet high, trained to a single stem to the height 

 of four feet; diameter of the head six feet; corymbs of 

 flowers expanded, sixty ; some of these drooped half way 



