552 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[OCTORER 31, 
drunkenness—a hint which may prove useful to 
m decoration on 
the occasion of print ‘festivities; ; and the 
courtyards and windows with it. 
‘The Japanese have a Satih way of employ- 
ing the blossoms of the Chrysanthemum. Mr. 
Fortune tells us that, in the tea gardens néar 
Yeddo, the most curious objects are imitation 
ladies made up out of these flowers. Thousands 
effect was oftentimes rather startling.” 
New Garden Plants. 
han FREBELII, A. de C., sp. nov.* 
Mes cebel & Co., nurserymen of Zurich, 
desirous i uf Shinn the name of a beautiful Begonia, 
which they had re sore from the Republic of 
me a plant in 
follo , 
Petiole from 5 to $ c.m. eo 
niara nearly smooth at the 
y Inflorescence r Sex — 
flowered. Bracts 6—10 m.m. long; the inferior 
obtuse, denticulated, the superior acute 
I cm. Hairs of the 
ong. h 
peduncles, and petioles soft, patent, not very 
Flowers of a became scarlet Sages Sepals 
ong, I2—I iyi petals 
nearly equal in gie but narrowed a the base. 
m a con 1 F ts 
aalis gagis m.m., straight, linear, 
le, but five lobes, e7- about 2 cm, 
pe obey in B. cinnabarina allied species, 
persistent. Placentas three, deeply 
ovules on either face of the divi- | 
the 
` -bearing 
sions. Tong fruits pubescent, attenuated at. 
Tt sliffers, feom B. cinnabarina in its more elliptic, 
more or cordate leaves, its less obtuse bract 
the base of 
__ SEDUM PULCHELLUM, Michx. + 
if short time since we received from the Rev. HN. 
mbe, Bitton, a specimen of this very p 
Sedum, whic 
cn ey ihe B. Guat 
ae aening Robgan ben han ‘the filaments. 
moll ie “Sy pe 
It is a perennial with trailing, barren, and erect 
flowering stems. The leaves are alternate, sessile, 
gibbous at the 
base, linear, terete, glaucous green, 
mo scarcely half an inch in niet th. The inflorescence 
a 3—4 branched spreading ovina with the flo 
“ond ed in two rows along the upper surface only, 
and each provided with a leaf-like Paar Each flower 
is about half an inch pa diam 
S, pe e 
are 3—4 in number, greenish, D a gi 
glands at their base are small and 
ate. 
Its neat habit and pretty flowers will render this 
a voii with lovers of 
It must not be 
chellum of gardens, under whic 
ave met both wit 
FMi 
i 
FIG. 111,—SEDUM PULCHELLUM 
of AMINGCTON HOUSE, 
» NATURAL SIZE ; DETACHED LEAF AND FLOWER MAGN! 
extensive and varied, bagi. in a Be 
tion. The ounds from the hou 
tlines 
of them at a distance being little more than 
K T seez The conservatory is a 
E, 
BcA 
north side, called Wallace’s 
