in the Nursery of Messrs. Rollison of Tooting. 1 5 



where the fruit is eaten. Nearly allied to V. cotinifolia D. Don. 

 A very desirable species, and very likely to prove quite hardy. 



V. pygmce s a Royle. Leaves opposite, trilobate, subserrate. 

 A very curious dwarf deciduous shrub, from 1 ft. to 1 ft. 6 in. in 

 height; native of the Himalayas. A most desirable plant to 

 represent the section O'pulus in a miniature arboretum. Quite 

 hardy. Sent two or three years ago to the Tooting Nursery, by 

 Dr. Royle. 



Jasmi'ne^s. -— Jasminum chrysanthum Royle Illust. p. 268. 

 A species from the Himalayas, nearly allied to J. humile, and, I 

 have no doubt, as hardy as that species. A very free grower, 

 and (?) evergreen. Dr. Royle states that it is cultivated in the 

 gardens along with J. grandiflorum. 



_EitiCA N cEiE. — hlrbutus. A species received from the Conti- 

 nent in 1841. A beautiful plant, with ovate-lanceolate, glaucous, 

 finely serrated leaves. Should this species prove hardy, it will 

 be the most ornamental of all our arbutuses. Propagated by 

 grafting upon A. CAiedo. 



A'rbutm. A species from Mexico. I have no doubt but 

 this will prove a truly hardy species, perhaps belonging to 

 Pernettytf. 



ScROPHULARiA N CEiE. — Paulbwma. imperidlis Sieb. Arb. Brit., 

 abr. ed., p. 671. figs. 1307-8. This magnificent tree has just 

 arrived in this nursery. Nothing can be finer than the appear- 

 ance of the young plants, and I am sorry I cannot do justice to 

 a description of so splendid an addition to the British arbore- 

 tum. Messrs. Rollison have in their possession a leaf equal in 

 size to those of Myatt's Victoria rhubarb, but which is only half 

 the size of some other leaves that were upon the tree from 

 which this was taken. My informant tells me that he saw some 

 plants that had made shoots 14 ft long in the course of the past 

 summer ; and he adds that they had leaves upon them 3 ft. in 

 diameter. How any one could substitute for this tree the Ca- 

 talpa syringcefbWa. I am at a loss to know ; but, according to 

 some observations in the Gard. Chron., vol. i. p. 701., such seems 

 to have been the case. To prevent such unfair proceedings 

 (which no respectable nurseryman would have recourse to), it 

 must be borne in mind, that, although the leaves of Paulownm, 

 when the tree is planted out, become of an amazing size, espe- 

 cially for the two or three first years (for they afterwards become 

 less, as the tree becomes less rapid in its growth), yet, when 

 confined in a pot, the plant produces leaves, some of them very 

 small, varying from 3 in. to 12 in. in diameter. But, even in 

 this state, they are easily recognised, the shoots being much more 

 hairy on the young wood than those of the Catalpa. The leaves of 

 Paulowm'a are also deeply serrated, and slightly ciliated ; whilst 

 those of Catalpa are not so. Indeed, the differences between 



