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Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



57 



May 15. This species has a large and 

 beautiful blue flower, nearly 4 in. 

 across. It belongs, apparently, to the 

 division ^nemoneflorse; but has 8 pe- 

 tals instead of 4. Messrs. Loddiges 

 received the plant, about seven months 

 ago, from Holland ; and, as it is a na- 

 tive of Java, it will probably be found 

 half-hardy, or, perhaps, quite hardy. 

 We delayed taking any notice of it 

 last month, hoping that it would have 

 been figured and described in some of 

 the botanical periodicals. Further de- 

 tails respecting it will be given in the 

 Supplemefit to our Arboretum et Frutice- 

 tum Britannicum, which will appear 

 very shortly, with the last Number of 

 that work. 

 Vapaverdcecs. 



3370. ESCHSCHO'LTZ/.^ 28369a crScea Benth. Bot. mag. t. 3495. 



In speaking of the beauty of the specimen figured of this plant. Sir W. J. 

 Hooker says : — "It has been remarked by several of my English friends, that 

 the many beautiful hardy herbaceous plants, which have been lately intro- 

 duced to our gardens by the indefatigable Douglas, succeed better in the hu- 

 mid climate of Scotland, than in the vicinity of London : they remain longer 

 in perfection ; the flowers are frequently larger, and the colours brighter." 

 (^Bot. Mag., June.) 



Every practical gardener must be a aware of the truth of this 

 remark. Some alpine and American and Russian shrubs succeed 

 better in the cold moist climate of Glasgow, than they do in the 

 comparatively dry climate of Edinburgh ; and many succeed ad- 

 mirably at Edinburgh, which do not thrive in the gardens about 

 London, and which cannot be kept alive in the neighbourhood 

 of Paris. T^ubus Chamsemorus may be referred to as a proof of 

 what we state ; and, also, Oxycoccus palustris, and some indi- 

 genous vacciniums, heaths, ferns, &c. 



Legumindcece, or Fahdcea. 



2144. KENNE^DY^ 

 ? 19384fli * macrophylla Lindl. 



long-leafed %_ \ 1 or 15 



P Swan River 



C1862 

 1835 C s.p Bot. reg. 



" A beautiful green-house twining shrub, introduced by Sir James Stirling 

 from Swan River in New Holland. It was raised in the garden of Robert 

 Mangles, Esq., at Sunning Hill ; whence specimens were received in the course 

 of last summer. A pretty mode of managing such plants is that pi'actised in 

 the garden of Mrs. Lawrence, of twining the stems round and round to stakes 

 fixed into the sides of the pot, so that the plant is compelled to grow round 

 itself. The result of this is the collection into the compass of a bush of hun- 

 dreds of clusters of flowers, which would otherwise be scattered over the roof 

 of a green-house, and too far removed from the eye to enable the beautiful 

 form and colour to be distinctly seen." {Bot. Reg., June.) 



