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species, in habit E Spiræa Aruncus ; leaves 
large, biternate, of a glaucous 4 the flowers, 
borne in ramified panicles, are whit 
Astilbe —— (A. odontophy lt), was intro- 
s not 
It rarely exceeds 2 feet in 
eee 
his 
бе» lde un- 
It is a pretty species, with very 
— — of which the folioles are petiolate, 
val, and covered as well as is the entire plant, with 
little silky — the ramified inflorescences are 
— ^ and bear flowers with petals white 
ergin "e rose, elegantly set along the flori- 
— мә 
Етегуопе — Astilbe japonica, М. eee more 
— called Hoteia japonica, Morr. and Desne, or 
ven Spiræa japonica, Hort. It is a plant covered 
with long brown hairs on the base of the stems and 
petioles, with radical leaves in tufts, trifurc 
petioles, folioles oval lengthy, almost coriaceous, of 
а dark green on the upp 
а 
a for forcing, is 
also an excellent чб plant ; 
soil, and generally a cool and half- тя} Тае 
rhizomes are perfectly hardy, but very often the 
— shoots are destroyed ^w ao, frosts, 
any other varieties of A nica are also culti- 
vated. By hybridising has жыр — A japonica 
foliis aureo-reticulatis (about 1871), the foliage of 
is green, variegated with yellow along the 
veins of all the folioler, and the inflorescences of 
— аге more tufted and compact than in the type; 
o A. ja rs foliis- -purpureis, the foliage of which 
ining bronze, at le 
finally, A. japonica compac 
T lately put into age is d ed 
ommon — г all purposes for which it is 
The foliage is firmer, more developed, the 
inflorescences are larger and more ramified, par form 
white Amo tse amat this 
variety is а form of A. japo — pe. stie d 
with yellow, but the — of w ned to 
its normal colour, and the rmi ME. more 
(SRE P. 358.) 
Fio, 67,—AsTILBE LRMOINFI X, 
^ 
compact, have cols d by the increased vigour due 
to the return of the chlorophyll, and gained still 
more in size and abundance, 
he year 1879 marked the first nd of 
ew reti for which nume names 
not g. It was, in fact, at that time th 
: м 
as Spiræa — the following year he 
showed it under the n Spiræa Aruncus astil- 
boides, a eee gee to it by the Kew 
ta ; or simply as Spiræa astilboides, a term 
who 
e 
= 
E 
a 
ai 
underwhich бж нь popular, Maximowicz, 
had discovered it in = arated it from 
Spireas, м. called i 
h neus are also Spireas, and all th 
агии of the plant we allude to refer it to 
Astilba or Hoteia ; the specific name, 
now perhaps too w i 
should be named Astilbe astiboides, 
Really this 
name is no more — 8 many terme in 
botanical nomenclature, g — 
N ervilia, Specularia — 
A. (Spirea) astilboides grows from does 1} foot 
to 2 feet high; the pin wá — have reddish 
M the foliole es me ted, much tooth 
hairy, of а brown-green — the ramified floral 
atalks are covered with little white flowers, dense, 
which are in the form of h 
white lobes, five white peta 
and two united carpels. This species, as a perennial, 
likes a silicious soil, and is particularly effective in 
rockwork, but is especially valuable for pot-culture 
and for forcing, e hich very pretty flowering 
specimens сап ais 
The origin of a — called by its producer, M. 
)eabois, of Ghent, Spiræa astilboides floribunda, м 
— d in the Rev 
1891 (p. 145). One da 
Jacob Makoy et Cie., of Lidge, show 
а rapid method of multiplying А 
seed, them in 
is 
he dis- 
s of my seedlings s 
ous in my 
ings. deemed myself authorised hence- 
seni в Consider my acquisition as а new species,’ 
more in accordance with facts and logic — 
Astilbe аме; only the FEL! of а botanist i 
lackin to cause this to be admitted, 
