in certain British Nurseries and private Gardens. 61 



• 'Siiniperus communis hibernica, the Irish Juniper. A beautiful fastigiate variety, 

 distinct from the Swedish juniper, which is also fastigiate, and grows on soils 

 unfavourable to the genus. 



Junipertes virginidna nana. Original plant ten years old, and but 1 ft. 

 high ; from seed here. 



Juniperus virginidna horizontalis. Of remarkable horizontal growth ; from 

 seed here. 



Juniperus virginidna pendula. A beautiful pendulous variety. Original tree 

 at Parndon, Essex, A tree at Leveson Gower's, Esq., Clapham Common, 

 approaches to this in habit. 



Juniperus Oxycedrus Encyc. of Trees and Shrubs, p. 1083. 



Juniperus tetragona H. S. 



Juniperus bermudidna, grafted on the red cedar. 



Thiija filiformis, grafted on Thuja orientalis. The most remarkable of the 

 Cupressinae, and not to be forgotten by any one who has ever seen the parent 

 plant in the arboretum at Kew. Quite unique and quite hardy. 



'Yhitja hybrida. This has been in the nurseries of Mr. Pearson of Chilwell, 

 Nottingham, for forty years, under the name of the Sweet-scented Arbor 

 Vitae, received also from France. 



Coniferce AJbieiincE. — Vhius Pinaster Lemonianns,. Encyc. of Trees and Sliriibs, 

 p. 963. This variety is occasionally, in this nursery, selected from seedlings 

 raised here of the pinaster. 



A'bies excelsa nigra. A large tree at Burleigh bears numerous cones, and 

 forms a fine object. 



Vicea Pinsapo. A large stock of plants of this species, and also of P. cepha- 

 lonica. 



Picea pectinuta stricta. Seedlings from a remarkable fastigiate tree near 

 Beccles, Suffolk, retaining the habit of the parent, which was destroyed in 

 1839 by wind. 



Perforated earthenware covers to seed-pans facilitate vegetation in seeds. 

 Peat-earth seeds are raised in pans and boxes on the shady side of hedges and 

 other screens, supported from the ground on boards to prevent the entrance of 

 worms, and to facilitate protection in severe weather by mats suspended from, 

 the hedge, and reaching over the pots and pans on the shelf, like a cloak. 



Kent. 



Dartfurd Nursery ; .7. D. Parks. — Cytisus alphius intermedins. Interme- 

 diate between the weeping and the common alpine or Scotch laburnum ; a 

 vigorous grower with a pendent habit ; flowers deep yellow ; racemes very 

 long, sometimes 15 inches. A well-marked variety, deserving general cul- 

 tivation. A new white and a new purple ciiieraria have been raised by 

 Mr. Parks, which lie has not yet " given out." 



Middlesex. 



Horticidtural Society'' s Garden. — Berberaceae. — Berberis umhelldta Wal- 

 lich. Bat. Reg., 184.2, Monthly Chron., No. 42. " A specimen of this 

 new hardy shrub has flowered in the garden of W. Wells, Esq., of Red- 

 leaf, where it has been raised from Nepal seeds. It is something like 

 B. aristata, but has much narrower leaves, very decidedly glaucous under- 

 neath. From B. Coriaria it differs in the same character, and in the flowers 

 being much smaller, and in long-stalked clusters. The branches and spines 

 are remarkably slender. The leaves are narrow, obovate, mucronate, slightly 

 toothed, with very distant veins on a glaucous ground upon the under surface." 

 {Bot. Reg., 1842, Monthly Chron., No. 42.) — G.G. 



Lcguminoscc. — Indigofera DiSsua Dec, and Don^s Miller. A straggling bush, 

 a native of Nepal, with bright deep rose-coloured blossoms, highly ornamental. 

 Raised in the Hort. Soc. Garden, where it flowered in May, 1840. " It 

 appears to be a shrub sufficiently hardy to stand an ordinary winter in the 

 open border, and growing vigorously in any good rich garden soil. It flowers 



3d Sen— 1843. II. f 



