ISU Floricultnral and Botanical Notices. 



They can be preserved in admirable order, and at little cost, 

 in shoal boxes with cotton bats. 



" I shall appear again one of these days with a further 

 budget of recorded and condensed facts for my brethren in 

 the business to digest at leisure." — Yoiirs, A. Johnston, Jr., 

 Wiscasset, February, 1853. 



Art. X. Floricultnral and Botanical Notices of Neio and 

 Beautiful Plants, figured in Foreign Periodicals ; with 

 descriptio7is of those introduced to, or originated in, Amer- 

 ican Collections. 



New American Camellias. Q,uite a number of new Seed- 

 ling Camellias have flowered the past winter among the nur- 

 serymen and amateurs. In a recent visit to Philadelphia and 

 Baltimore we saw some admirable varieties, which will add 

 to the already high character of our American seedlings. In 

 a few years we shall have a list of sorts which will surpass 

 any equal number that have ever yet been produced. 



Among those which we noticed in flower was Feast's Tri- 

 umph of Baltimore, a superb carnation-shaped variety, some- 

 thing in the way of Prince Albert, but more distinctly striped, 

 and of regular imbricated form. It will, we think, prove the 

 best of this class yet raised. Mr. Ed. Kurtz has two re- 

 markably fine rose-colored ones, something in the way of 

 Wilderi and Fordw. Mr. John Feast has Mrs. Lurman, a 

 very fine mottled variety, in the way of imbricata. Mr. 

 Mackenzie of Philadelphia has one in the style of the Duchess 

 of Orleans, but said to be better ; we did not see it in flower. 

 Mr. Buist has also some fine seedlings, which we believe he 

 has sold to the Continental florists. 



Messrs. Hovey & Co. have had their seedlings superbly in 

 bloom, and some of them are great novelties, being quite new 

 in color : one is a dark maroon ; another almost scarlet ; a 

 third, pink, with a blush centre ; and a fourth, white, with a 

 delicate carmine stripe : all unique in shape, petal, «Scc. Mr. 



