JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ May 19, 1863. 



CALCEOLAEIA 



PosSESSIwe considerable beauty in itself, this shrubby species 

 of Slipperwort may effect that improvement in the worn-out 

 garden Calceolarias wbich the Cape BpecieB of Pelargonium 

 brought about in the case of the enfeebled florists' breed of this 

 latter popular flower. If its properties can at all be brought to 

 bear upon the domesticated Slipperwort, we may yet hope to see 



TETEAGONA. 



some of their acquired beauty of flower united with a vigorous 

 constitution and good habit of growth. RUJto 



The species was introduced from Peru by Messrs. Veitch, of 

 Exeter. It forms a true shrub with a compact and dwarf branch- 

 ing habit of growth, and bears oblong-ovate blunt entire leaves. 

 The flowers, which form loose corymbs at the ends of the stemB, 



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are large, with a pale-green calyx, and the lower lip of the corolla 

 forms a broad squarish pouch of a pale yellow colour. 



The habit of this Slipperwort being all that can be desired in 

 an ornamental plant, and being accompanied by clean-looking, 

 ample, shining foliage, and numerous showy flowers, the form of 

 which, though not exactly agreeing with the artificial " cherry- 

 bob " standard, is not at all inelegant, it is to be hoped that 



some persevering hybridisers will by its aid, revivify the Cal- 

 ceolaria as a garden flower. 



Like the other shrubby species of Slipperwort, the present 

 may be increased readily by means of cuttings of the young 

 shoots ; and the plants will grow freely in a mixture of equal 

 parts of turfy loam, peat, and leaf mould. It, of course, requires 

 greenhouse protection. — M. — {Garden Companion.) 



DEATH OF ME VEITCH, OE EXETEE. 



It iB our mournful duty to record the death of Mr. James I he loved so much, was seized with spasms of the heart, and 

 Veitch, of Exeter, which took place on the forenoon of Thursday I after two hours' suffering, expired in the arms of his eldest son, 

 last, the 14th inst. I Mr. James Veitch, of Chelsea. 



Only a week previously Mr. Veitch sustained the loss of his The father of Mr. Veitch was a native of Jedburgh, in 

 wife, who waB buried on Thursday laBt ; and it was on the day Scotland. At the end of the last century he came to Devonshire, 

 of her funeral that Mr. Veitch, overwhelmed with grief for one where he ultimately established a nursery at Killerton, near 



