418 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
Grariatints. Thus Davenant, in Zhe Rivals? 
says :— 
‘*]'ll marry thee with a Rush ring.” 
It is possible, however, that the use of Rush 
gs may formerly have had some special sig- 
; for there is in the 
as a bush. 
t 
common to F. suspensa 
tended to say was, that these two have 
in common, F. aine is quite different in foliage, 
as described her 
— a ificial = at 
, co. Antri This kanal a’ piece 
a fiera cloth and a ring of plaited R 
e toys SERN Nature 
enjoyed plaiting their flexible stems into various 
shapes and fashions. Clare, one of the truest 
of Nature-poets, aoe to this when he says— 
w happy have I felt 
en here I sat thi nameless songs, 
And. wt the shepherd- cee and neat-herd, knelt 
pon yon Rush beds, plaiting whips and thongs.” 
Rushes he been the — of children 
from time meres and it would 
from the following pass pepe ‘ieoncee (in his 
Britannia’s Pastorais) ior little mills composed 
of Rushes were in his day made by the shep- 
herds for their amusement. The spring, he 
veh Ad should no more— 
to play 
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mi 
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BEFORE leaving t 'ratægus, I may mention 
~ that Paul’s double aa Thorn is the best variety of | 
that group. It has bolder foliage and deeper-coloured 
flowers than the common eat t variety. Another 
speciés of this genus, C. coccinea, a native of North 
America, is one of the most Sraanenlal of small trees 
for ae planting, &e. 
the si of Se 
or is quite n 
from the Him 
three or five leaflets, H. acuminata and H. angusti- 
folia are varieties of the same species. 
belongs to a small group called 
d inconspicuous whteextad or 
of them, including our 
its. The geographical 
of the group. Holbcellia latifolia is sometimes 
Stauntonia in gardens, but the latter genus has mona- 
delphous stamens, whereas they are free here. Sta 
tonia is net to China and Japan, whilst Holbeellia 
the Timalayin Mountains. H. latifolia 
a greenhouse climber, but 
and west, though 
T have not seen 
and Res Sete leaves on the 
‘more erect habit, and better adapted for growing 
genus 
are of purely botanical ini 
some 
colonists term it, from the shape of the keel petals 
son a 
This genus | 
the Lardizabalex, 
in | strata testify. I allude to the P 
It is perfectly hardy. I find on reference 
o p. 304, that I state there that all three species 
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Carmichælia. Carmichæl: 
species = consideration, which, like all of its con- 
eners, is a small almost, or quite, ‘leafless shrub, with 
a gh clustered striped pink or red and white flowers. 
The pods are small, 
away, leaving the framework of the p 
seeds are attached. This 
and when ripe the valves fall 
od, to which the 
genus was dedicated to 
wrote an interesting account 
ansac- 
The allied genus Notospartium differs 
in ian ving a pod with transverse partitions between the 
seeds, and whic 
h does not split open. These plants 
terest alone ; but the hand- 
us puniceus, or PE Flower, as the 
of the flower, is deserving of a word here. It certainly 
is one of the most sing and begs y coloured 
of our half-hardy clim f- 
hardy is, er ma te. exception p, the Soak wed of 
England a reland, it requires a little additional 
potetion i in i ahs blood-red 
owers are borne in at “and the leaves are pin- 
nate. There i is another species, C. Dampieri, a native 
native of Madeira and consequently quite tender in 
this country. It is a shrub belonging to the Sage or 
Salvia family, with small purplish labiate flowers, the 
hich i is closed. ese oa hence the generic 
deserves ore than a pl notice, although it has 
kaa kape i in this country ever since 1822. It be- 
an ao allied to the 
m is un- 
7 MYUMUDIC 
or Japan, in cultivation. This Rose is remarkable for 
the smallness of its flowers, which scarcely exceed in 
size those of the double overs Bramble. They are 
in dense c vary in colour from bright 
plik: ite tn a nnes 
by the leafy aly bbas 
ntoa family of TER plants, now 
almost exclusively confined to the southern hemisphere 
in a wild stat e, though formerly ina N y in Earpe, 
ossil remains of some of the earlier tertia: 
i vith areco 
ete so that men the Fai pte opes oe de. 
to bear off the seeds, Wi thout this admirable pro- 
vision they must all fall to the giona De 
Proteaceæ, it is a fine shrub for the greenho 
cert ator 
yellow- fondet Clematis, C. orie 
to give a satisfactory answer. 
is that the other characters of this genus bring 
of which have 
a ily, most of the members 
calyx and corolla, or the pet 
mi organs, as in th 
a perianth. UD atactanately, howe 
g uniformity of i 
though the term periant 
ere we h 
nt 
ther ite- 
some of my readers may isa! 
chase it, believing it to be yel 
Hydrang: vie Soars an o 
change whose pretty pink flowers fro 
n the ambitio so 
hange is effected spontaneously by p 
imp: ith min 
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others fica sterile, th is, possessi 
nor pistil. In the pat lege 
angea, all 
