THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE XX1 
Dr, Pitcairn’s garden at Islington. Curtis remarks “ That 
a finer sight can scarcely be imagined than a tree of this 
sort, extending to a great breadth on a wall with a western 
aspect, in the Apothecaries garden at Chelsea, where it was 
planted by Mr. Forsyth about the year 1774, and which at 
this moment (April 28th, 1791) is thickly covered with 
large pendulous branches of yellow, I had almost said 
golden tlowers, for they have a peculiar richness which it is 
impossible to represent in colouring. In winter it is care- 
fully covered with mats, lest it should suffer from any 
extraordinarily severe weather.” I have reproduced the 
foregoing particulars, in order to direct attention to this 
beautiful shrub, which is figured in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle (n.s., ix., p. 729). Other varieties are figured in 
the Botanical Magazine, plates 1442 and 3735, under the 
distinctive generic name Edwardsia, founded by Salisbury 
in honour of Sydenham Edwards. 
The next plate (168) is the beautiful but evanescent 
Cape Vieusseuxia glaucopis, incorrectly figured under the 
name Iris pavonia; the true V. (Iris) pavonia is figured in 
plate 1247. Ixora coccinea (pl. 169), originally introduced 
in 1690, though it did not long survive, was successfully 
cultivated by Thorburn & Whitley, nurserymen at Brompton. 
The singular Aitonia capensis (pl. 173), one of Masson’s 
earliest introductions, deserves mentioning on account of 
its commemorating one of the most eminent gardeners of 
that period. Buddleia globosa (pl. 174), a native of Chili, 
and so unique in its way, was introduced by Lee & Kennedy, 
of Hammersmith. The hardy Kalmia latifolia (pl. 175) 
and Azalea nudiflora (pl. 180) bring us to the end of the 
fifth volume. Specially noteworthy in the sixth volume is 
the handsome Erica grandiflora (pl. 189), one of Masson’s 
very numerous introductions from South Africa, which was 
drawn “ from a finely-blown plant in the choice collection 
of James Vere, Esq., of Kensington Gore.” E. cerinthoides 
(pl. 220) is another from the same source. Helianthus 
multiflorus (pl. 227), regarded by Dr. A. Gray as a garden 
variety of H. decapetalus, reminds us more of the taste of 
the present day. Plate 240 is a representation of the 
charming Pelargonium tricolor, here first described. Pass- 
ing on to plate 260, Metrosideros citrina (Callistemon 
lanceolatus), we have the forerunner of numerous brilliantly- 
flowered Australian shrubs, of which, according to Curtis, 
there were then many in this country, though he believed 
this was the first that had flowered in England. The 
drawing was made from a plant in Lord Cremorne’s garden, 
