226 General Notices. 



They will grow very rapidly, and if trained up to a pole or 

 over a trellis, will produce an abundance of flowers all sum- 

 mer. It will be a fine companion to the nasturtiums, cobaeas, 

 ipomseas, &-C. It is increased by cuttings and seeds. {Flore 

 des Serres, October.) 



119. Zauschne^ria califo'rnica Prcsl. Californian 

 Zauschneria. {(Enotheracecc.) California. 



a greenhouse plant ; growin? two feet high, with crimson scarlet flowers ; appearinj all sum- 

 mer ; cultivated In loam and leaf mould ; increased by cutliugs and seeds. Flore des Serres, 

 1848. Pi. 404. 



A California plant, found near Monterey, by Mr. Hartweg, 

 who sent home seeds in 1847, and it flowered in the garden 

 of the Horticultural Society the same year. It has been 

 highly praised both as a greenhouse and summer bedding 

 ;plant, vieing in beauty with the fuchsias, and flowering pro- 

 fusely all summer. It has a neat upright habit, with small 

 linear foliage, and from the axil of every leaf springs a long 

 .tubular, scarlet flower, with numerous projecting stamens, 

 and a prominent stigma, each of the color of the flower. 

 For brilliancy of effect, it is scarcely equalled by any other 

 plant. It is of easy cultivation, (Flore des Serres, Octohei.) 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. L General j\'otices. 



Rare CoNiFERiE and Improvements in the Cairnies, at Perth- 

 shire, Scotland. (Continued from our volume for 1849, XV, p. 550.) 

 [We are gratified to learn, that there is so great an interest manifested by 

 our cultivators, in the cultivation of the Coniferse, and that tlie other portions 

 of this excellent article, which we copied into our last volume, have been so 

 generally read. The probability that most of the species which have proved 

 hardy in Scotland, will be so here, renders the information it contains, of 

 much value. We shall continue it hereafter, as it reaches us in the Journal 

 of Horticulture. — Ed.] 



Of the section, Picea or Silver Fir, tliere may be noticed — 

 Picea Wehhiana of Loudon. — This is a Hymmalayan species of the first 

 order, and one of the most distinct of the whole section Picea. Found be- 

 tween .30° and 32° of N, lat., in the western range of the Himmalaya, at an 

 elevation of from 6500 to 10,000 feet It attains a height of from 80 to 90 

 feet, with a girth of about 12 feet, throwing its vigorous horizontal branches 



