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ties of A. coccinea. The colours are more lively, and of various tints of 

 crimson and vivid pink or scarlet ; and there is in sevei'al, particularly in 

 the specimen (A. thyrsifolia) sent to you, a tendency more or less deve- 

 loped to produce flowers laterall}'. In some, the vivid pink and light crim- 

 son tints are very beautiful ; and there is hardly an individual among them 

 vv'hich, a few years ago, would not have been thought an acquisition to the 

 garden. The seedlings from A. rubescens, by A. triiimphans, were never 

 with me the objects of so much solicitude as those just described. They 

 surpass them greatly in magnificence, following generally the type of A. 

 calendulacea, and are very late-flowering plants, of many gradations of 

 colours, from pale yellow to orange, salmon colour, pink, and beautiful 

 mixed tints ; they produce large umbels, with expanded corollas, are elegant 

 in habit, and hardly to be surpassed in loveliness. Of those which flowered 

 here last summer for the first time, we were able to discriminate sufficiently 

 to give names to about 30 varieties, each of distinguished beauty or fra- 

 grance." 



i?ubus *nutkanus, Nootka Raspberry. From North-west and North 

 America, by Mr. Douglas to the Horticultural Society ; resembling the 

 i?ubus odorhtus, but with white flowers. — Anomatheca *cruenta. A de- 

 sirable Cape bulb (/rideae), flowering from May till late in the autumn. 

 Introduced by Mr. Tate of the Sloane Street nursery. 



No. X. for December, contains 

 1370 to 1376. — Salvia Graham/. Found by J. G. Graham, Esq., near 

 the mines of Tlalauxahua in Mexico, after whom it is named by Mr. Ben- 

 tham, the reformer of this order of plants. A suffi-uticose plant, about 

 3 ft. high, with bright purple flowers, very handsome, about 1 in. long, in- 

 cluding the calyx. " The plant begins to flower in July, and continues in 

 beauty till October : its flowers are not so showy as those of the S. fulgens 

 and splendens ; but the richness of their purple, and their constant succes- 

 sioh, amply compensate for inferiority of size. It should be planted out in 

 the open border in May, and transferred to the green-house at the approach 

 of frost ; or if cuttings, by which it increases freely, are struck in the au- 

 tumn, as a provision for another year, the old plant may be abandoned to 

 its fate." — *Hayl6ckk (so named by Mr. Herbert, in compliment to Mj-. 

 Matthew Haylock, who has the care of the collection of plants at Spof- 

 forth ; and both there, and previously at Mitcham, in the course of the last 

 22 years, has brought no small number of plants, especially of this natural 

 order, to blossom for the first time in this country) pusilla. A curious 

 little green-house bulb, which " brings the western AmavyWidecB near 

 indeed to Melanthacese. With bulb, foliage, capsule, and seed that are 

 scarcely distinguishable from Zephyranthes, it has a flower which is nearly 

 that of a Colchicum." — i?6sa multiflora var. platyphylla. The most beau- 

 tiful of all the climbing I'oses of our gardens. A native of China, where it 

 is called the Seven Sisters' Rose ; because about seven flowers open at the 

 same time, and each varying from the other, from a pale rose colour to a 

 deep crimson. It was introduced between 1815 and 1817. It comes nearest 

 to R. m. var. GreviUra, but is more splendid, and requires greater care dur- 

 ing winter to pi'eserve its young shoots from being destroyed by frost. Its 

 blossom buds are always formed on the twigs of strong two-year-old shoots ; 

 and an east or west wall, or open trelliswork, suits it better than a south 

 wall. — *Pratk (in honour of M. Prat-Bernon, a young naval officer, who 

 died on board the French discovery ship Urania) hegonusfdlia. Nearly 

 allied to Lobelia, but distinguished by its baccate fruit. " A pretty little 

 plant, found by Dr. "Wallich in shady moist places in Nipal, and ex- 

 tremely well adapted for forming neat patches upon rock. It was thus cul- 

 tivated when we saw it growing at Syon, in the collection of His Grace the 

 Duke of Northumberland. Mr. Forrest informs us that it bore the rigour 



