414 Floricultnral and Botanical Notices. 



summer months, when they fill up the spare room in the green 

 house, and add greatly to its attractions. 



Seedling Picotees and Pinks. — A box of very pretty 

 Seedling German Picotees and Pinks has been sent to us, by 

 Messrs. Kennedy & Co., of the Bay Wood Nursery and Gar- 

 dens, Pittsburgh, Pa. The collection embraced twenty-two 

 varieties named ; some of them very large and showy. The ' 

 German picotees we do not fancy so much as the English ; 

 they are more brilliant, but do not possess the smooth edged 

 petals and delicate tints of the latter. These seedlings, how- 

 ever, of Messrs. Kennedy & Co., are fine, and will form a 

 fine collection till the choice sorts, which come up to the 

 standard of English florists, are introduced. 



212. Ski'mmia japo'nica Zucc. Japan Skimmia. (^Auran- 

 tiacecB.) Japan. 



a half-hardy (or hardy) evergreen slirub; growing 3 to 4 feet high; with white flowers ; ap- 

 pearing ill spring; increased by layers; grown in peat, loam and sand. Bot. Mag., 1853, pi. 4119. 



A new and elegant evergreen shrub, a native of the moun- 

 tains of Japan, about Nangasaki, and extensively cultivated 

 by the Chinese as well as Japanese, on account of the de- 

 licious scent of the flowers, compared to that of Z^aphne 

 odora. It was introduced by Mr. Fortune to Messrs. Stand- 

 ish & Nobles, where it has grown freely, and borne the cold 

 of two winters unharmed. It flourishes well in a cool green- 

 house, where the plant was grown from which the specimen 

 was cut. It begins to flower when the plant is very small. 

 "The evergreen and shining leaves," observes Siebold, "the 

 clusters of runners and graceful flowers, which all the summits 

 of the branches produce, from the beginning of spring, their 

 perfume, and at the close of autumn, the beautiful scarlet fruits, 

 justify the rank which this maintains as a decorative plant." 

 The foliage oblong, acuminate, coriaceous, entire, somewhat 

 resembles the Z>aphne ; the flowers appear in terminal pani- 

 cles, and are succeeded by clusters of bright berries, like the 

 alder. If it should prove hardy in our climate, of which there 

 is but little doubt, it will be a most valuable addition to our 

 evergreen shrubs. — {^Bot, Mag., June.) 



