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appearance in the bright sun. It is a most valuable acquisi- 

 tion, and with the white and the buff, forms a trio of beauties 

 which should be in the possession of every lover of flowers. 

 When the new azure blue one, T. Haynedna, is introduced, 

 which we hope to procure next season, a great contrast may 

 be created by planting out the several kinds together, and 

 training them up to neat trellises. 



hilium lancifolium album, one of the new Japan lilies 

 introduced by Dr. Siebold, will soon flower in the collection 

 of M. P. Wilder, Esq. It has already thrown up a large 

 spike of flower buds, which will probably be in flower by the 

 time this paragraph appears in print. 



.jYew Verbenas. — We have now in our garden several seed- 

 ling verbenas coming into flower. Among them is one 

 pale pink or flesh-colored one, highly fragrant, with a good 

 habit, promising now, although it has opened but one umbel 

 of flowers, to be the most exquisite variety that we have ever 

 seen. We shall notice it again when it has more fully devel- 

 oped its character, as well as any other decidedly new one 

 which may flower among the number. 



SpjTfE^a lobdla var. americdna. — One of the most showy 

 perennials which has been introduced into our gardens is this 

 new variety of spirfea. It has already been mentioned in our 

 pages, (Vol. VI., p. 410,) as having flowered in the choice 

 collection of Prof. Jackson, of Union College, Schenec- 

 tedy, who was the first to bring it to notice. Mr. Wilder 

 received it from Prof. Jackson, last season, and it flowered 

 beautifully. The plant having acquired more strength, it 

 has flowered superbly this season, throwing up stems six feet 

 high, with splendid large clusters of feathery rose-colored 

 flowers. No collection of herbaceous plants can be com- 

 plete without it. 



JVfcio species of Salvia. — A beautiful new species of this 

 beautiful genus, from Mexico, the /S. tubifera, with graceful 

 drooping racemes of rich purple slender flowers, has lately 

 been in flower in the garden of the London Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Although it is not the most brilliant, it is the most 

 elegant of the genus yet introduced. 



Epiphyllum trnncdlum violdceum. — This is a new and su- 

 perior variety of E. truncatum. In growth and habit it re- 

 sembles that species; its flowers are nearly of the same size 

 and shape, but have that inimitable glow of purple ard rose 



