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Art. VI. FloricuUural and BotanicalJ^otices of new Plants 

 figured in foreign periodicals; with Remarks on those re- 

 cently introduced to^ or originated in, Jlmerican gardens, 

 and additional information upon plants already in cultivation. 



Edwards^s Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Garden 

 and Shrubbery. Each number containing from six to eight 

 plates, with additional miscellaneous information, relative to 

 new Plants. In monthly numbers; 3s. plain, 3s. 6d. colored. 



Paxton''s Magazine of Botany , and Register of Flowering Plants. 

 Each number containing four colored plates. Monthly. 2s. 6d. 

 each. Edited by J. Paxton, gardener to the Duke of Devon- 

 shire. 



The Gardener's Gazette, and Weekly Journal of Science and 

 Literature. Weekly; price 6d. each. 



FloricuUural Intelligence. — JVeio seedling Camellias. — The 

 number of new seedling camellias, of American growth, is 

 rapidly increasing. From various sources we hear of the 

 flowering of seedling plants, and among them some of very 

 promising character. In the course of a year or two, at the 

 rapid rate at which they are increasing, we shall have to de- 

 vote considerable space to descriptions of the flowers: this, 

 however, we shall be happy to do, if our friends will only be 

 careful in sending us such notices as will convey a good idea 

 of the flowers. The camellia is so popular a plant, and so 

 much admired, and new varieties of merit are so much sought 

 after, that we shall always be glad to make our pages the we- 

 dium for communicating the earliest information respecting 

 new varieties. Since our notice of Mr. Wilder's seedling, 

 (p. 25,) we have been favored with the following descriptions 

 of two other fine new varieties. 



Camellia japonica var. Meta. — A beautiful seedling camellia, 

 to which the above name has been given, is now in flower in 

 the collection of plants of Mrs. J. Lorillard, Manhattanville, 

 N. Y. The following is the description of the flower: — 

 Leaves three and a half inches long and two and a half wide, 

 nearly flat, oblong, slightly acuminate, strongly dentated, 

 smooth, glossy, light green, strongly veined, with a thick tex- 

 ture, resembling the Fv^onixfiora: bud very large, round, with 

 greenish calcinal scales: flower with two rows of guard petals, 



