December 26, 1872- ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



511 



Mr. Richard Smith, Worcester. 



1. Alfred Colomb 



33. Leopold I. 



2. Madame Rothschild 



31. Madame Eugene Appert 



3. Duke of Edinburgh, 



35. Madame Liabaud 



4. Charles Lefebvre 



36. Madame Noman 



5. La France 



37. Madame Victor Verdier 



6. Louise Van Houtte 



28. Madame Vidot 



7. Mdile. Annie Wood 



39. Mdlle. Bonnaire 



8. Marie Baumann 



40. Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier 



9. Senateur Vaisse 



41. Marguerite de St. Amand 



10. Gioire de Dijon 



42. Marquise de Castellane 



11. Souvenir d'un Ami 



43. Mdlle. Marie Rady 



12. Mareehal Kiel 



44. Pierre Nott ng 





45. Prince Camille de Rohan 



13. Celine Forestier 



46. Prince Humbert 



14. Niphetos 



47. Souvenir de M. Boll 



15. Madame Falcot 



48. Victor Verdier 



16. Devoniensis 



49. Xavier Olibo 



17. Abel Grand 



CO. Souvenir de la Malmaison 



18. Antoine Ducber 





19. Baronne de Maynard - 



TEAS AND NOISETTES. 



20. Boule de Neige 



1. Gioire de Dijon 



21. Centifolia Rosea 



2. Adam 



22. Comtesse d'Oxford 



3. Alba Rosea 



23. Comtesse de Chabrillant 



4. Devoniensis 



24. Dr. Andiy 



5. Le Pactole 



25. Due de Rohan 



6. Madame Falcot 



26. Exposition de Brio 



7. Madame Margottin 



27. Felix Genero 



8. Madame Willermoz 



28. Dupuy-Jamain 



9. Mareehal Niel 



29. Duchesse de Caylus 



10. Niphetos 



SO. Henri Ledechaux 



11. Souvenir d'un Ami 



31. Horace Veraet 



12. Celine Forestier 



32. John Hopper 





Mr. R. W. Proctor, The Nurseries, Asbgate Road, Chesterfield. 



1. Alfred Colomb 



26. Jean Lambert 



2. Baronne de Maynard 



27. Jules Margottin 



3. Charles Lefebvre 



23. Jean Bart 



4. Comtesse de Chabrillant 



29. Madame Boll 



5. Comtesse d'Oxford 



30. Madame Clemence Joigneaux 



6. Duke of Edinburgh 



31. Madame la Franchise 



7. John Hopper 



32. Madame Cirodde 



8. Gioire de Dijon 



33. Madame Victor Verdier 



9. La France 



34. Madame Wm. Paul 



10. Mdlle. Marie Rady 



35. Mareehal Niel 



11. Prince Camille de Rohan 



36. Mdlle. Bonnaire 



12. Senateur Vaisse 



37. Mdlle. Marguerite Dombrain 





38. Marquise de Mortemart 



13. Abbe Giraudier 



39. Marie Baumann 



14. Abel Grand 



40. Pierre Notting 



15. Anna Alexieff 



41. Paul Ricaut 



16. Alexandrine Backmetoff 



42. Rev. H. H. Dombrain 



17. Beauty of Waltham 



43. Souvenir de la Malmaison 



18. Madame Rothschild 



. 44. Souvenir de la Reine de l'Angle 



19. Charles Wood 



terre 



20. Duchesse cVOrleana 



45. Victor Verdier 



21. Deuil de Prince Albert 



46. William Griffiths 



22. Emilie Hausburg 



47. Xavier Olibo 



23. Eugene Appert 



48. Empereur de Moroe 



24. Exposition de Brie 



49. Fisher Holmes 



25. General Jacqueminot 



50. Peter Lawson 



Mr. Kirk Allen, The Nurseries, Brampton, Huntingdon. 



LIST OF TEAS AND NOISETTES. 



1. Mareehal Niel 7. Devoniensis 



2. Gioire de Dijon 8. Madame Bravy 



3. Souvenir d'un Ami 9. Madame Willermoz 



4. Celine Forestier 10. Souvenir d'Elise 



5. Niphetos 11. Madame Margottin 



6. Triorophe de Eennes 12. President 



P.S. — When writing about the new Roses, I am made to say 

 Madame Bellon, Belle Lyonnaise, &a. By some error Belle 

 Lyonnaise has been printed instead of Lyonnais, Lyonnias, or 

 Lyonnaise, as three different catalogues name it, one of the 

 recent introductions, and apparently one of the promising 

 Roses. — J. Hintou. 



TOXICOPHLJEA SPECTABILIS. 



This beautiful plant has been introduced into cultivation by 

 Mr. B. S. Williams, of the Victoria Nursery, Upper Holloway. 

 Mr. Williams tells us that the plants which have flowered with 

 him and been exhibited this spring were recently imported, and 

 consequently had not made the long growths which they would 

 have done when unchecked during the growing season, and as 

 a result they have not produced such long racemes of bloom as 

 they will ultimately form. 



The genus Toxicophla?a is placed by Lindley in the section 

 CarisseEe of the order Apoeynacete, and next to Carissa, into 

 which genus it appears to be the opinion of Professor Dyer it 

 will be ultimately merged ; this, however, will not affect the 

 plant in a horticultural point of view — the light in which I 

 shall here look upon it. Toxieophlaja spectabilis is a plant 

 that should be grown by every lover of plants possessing an 

 intermediate house or warm greenhouse. It is a handsome 

 shrubby plant, furnished with dark green leathery leaves, which 



have a somewhat polished appearance on the upper side, but 

 are dull beneath ; they measure nearly 4 inches long by about 

 2 inches in breadth, and are opposite, elliptic, becoming sud- 

 denly acuminate at the apex, with undulated margins. The 

 flowers are tubular, with a spreading five-lobed limb, pure 

 white, sweet-scented, and produced in dense cymes both ter- 

 minal and in the axils of the leaves. When the plants grow 

 freely they will produce racemes of flowers upwards of a foot 

 in length. 



In a cultural point of view this plant offers no difficulty to 

 the amateur. It does not require a very strong heat, but, as 

 before remarked, it succeeds well in an intermediate house. 

 The pots in which the plants are grown should be thoroughly 

 well drained ; by which, however, let my readers understand 

 I do not so much mean using a great quantity of material as 

 the proper disposition of a moderate quantity ; and let some 

 such material as turfy peat or sphagnum moss be used to pre- 

 vent the soil mixing with and thus choking it. The soil in 

 which the plant appears to thrive is a mixture of peat, loam, 

 and leaf mould, with a liberal addition of sharp sand. During 

 the growing season it enjoys copious waterings both from the 

 pot and syringe, but on account of the leathery substance of 

 the leaves, little shade will be necessary during winter. The 

 plants should by no means be allowed to suffer from want of 

 water, as this will cause the leaves to fall off, and thus the 

 specimen will be disfigured. The habit of the plant is such 

 that very little pruning will be necessary, but should it require 

 to be pruned to bring it into shape, this should be done imme- 

 diately after the flowers have fallen. The flowering season is 

 usually during early spring, but it may easily be retarded by 

 putting the plants into the greenhouse during the autumn and 

 winter months, when it will prove a most valuable subject 

 for public exhibition. — Expekto Ceede. 



THE ARECAS. 



Of the many beautiful and interesting plants included in 

 the wide-spread family of Palms, the Arecas seem to be par- 

 ticularly worihy of mention. The most striking feature about 

 them is their foliage. This is composed of a number of large 

 pinnated leaves sometimes called fronds, the bases of which 

 are very much expanded, and firmly embrace one another so as 

 to form a long compact sheath. Springing from this sheath, 

 which affords them a becoming and necessary support, the 

 leaves fall gently outwards, where they droop in languid grace- 

 fulness, as if exhausted by the effect of the intense heat to 

 which they are naturally exposed. How sweet the rustling of 

 their leaves in the evening breeze must be to the enervated 

 native who lies beneath their shade when the sultry tropical 

 sun has declined, we can form a faint idea from the pleasure 

 we feel when placed in the same condition under some of our 

 own forest trees in a hot day during July or August. Their 

 stems, like those of most monocotyledonous plants, do not at- 

 tain a very great thickness, though they are, as a rule, propor- 

 tionate to the foliage ; whilst the increase of them in height 

 can be measured by the succeeding circles of leaf-scars left by 

 former generations of leaves, which extend as far as the base 

 of the sheath. Immediately beneath this is produced the 

 inflorescence. It consists of two smooth, much-branching, 

 waxen-looking spadices, one of which is generally set a leaf- 

 scar higher than the other, and both occupying different posi- 

 tions with respect to each other in different plants. On them 

 the male and female organs are borne, one of the latter being 

 between two of the former. The male flowers fall off after 

 having shed their pollen, and leave the fertile flowers to perfect 

 their fruit. Many Palms produce fertile, unfertile, and perfect 

 flowers in one inflorescence, and to this arrangement some 

 Arecas show a tendency, their male organs often having a 

 rudimentary pistil in the centre. The two spadices are enclosed 

 by spathes, which are usually double, in some cases large and 

 broad, in others long and narrow. The fruit is, botanically 

 speaking, a drupe like that of the Plum, but the outer coatings 

 are of a fibrous or leathery nature and not a succulent one. 

 The seed or nut is frequently marked with red tracings on the 

 outside and red veinings on the inside, when botanists call it 

 " ruminated." 



Notable among the various species of Arecas is A. Catechu, 

 which yields the narcotic for which the natives of India show 

 such a slavish liking. This is contained in the well-known 

 " Betel," and, sooner than want it, the native chewer will 

 forego the more ordinary and more essential articles of food. 

 The Betel nut is the seed of A. Catechu, and of about the 



