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Annals of Horticulture. 



have been found in Yunnan and other parts of western China 

 by the missionaries who sent over the new rhododendrons 

 alluded to above, and we may, therefore, hope to see them, too, 

 in our gardens before long: L. mirabile, flowers narrow, white, 

 New 6 ^ 7 inches long ; L. formosum, white, 6 to 7 inches long, 

 lilies, broad ; L. myriophyllum, white, shaped like a large cup ; L. 

 Yunnanense, white, tinged purple; L. Delavayi, wine-red, 

 dotted with brown inside ; L. Lankongcnse, flowers white or 

 purplish, .dotted with black ; Fargesii, yellow, dotted with 

 purple, 2 inches long ; L. ochraceum, yellow. These names 

 are founded on dried material and manuscript sent to Mons. 

 Franchet, of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. 



"Chionodoxa Alleni. Whether a new species or variety 

 is not yet certain, but probably a form of C. Lucillia, the 

 'Glory of the Snow.' It is described as having very large 

 and brilliant blue flowers. No genus of hardy plants has 

 more rapidly come into favor than these beautiful chiono- 

 doxas, which grow and multiply with great freedom in the 

 herbaceous garden. 



"Buddleya Colvillei is not, strictly speaking, a new plant, 

 but it flowered in Ireland during the summer of 1892 for the 

 first time in the British Isles, probably in Europe. It grows 

 on the Sikkim Himalayas at elevations reaching up to 12,000 

 feet. The species is shrubby, of very graceful habit, and 

 flowers at the end of the current season's growth. Individu- 

 ally, the flower is bell-shaped, with four recurving lobes to the 

 corolla, and is colored pale purple." 



A detailed account of the new plants of 1892 is given by 

 W. Watson, of Kew, in Garden and Forest*, which I reproduce 

 in full : 



"The new plants of 1892, although more numerous than 

 ^piams usual > do not include many of extraordinary merit ; indeed, 

 of 1892. the number of really first-rate garden plants among them is 

 exceptionally few. I propose to deal at first only with the 

 plants for which English horticulture is responsible, leaving 

 the introductions of foreign establishments for the latter part 



" Orchids. The new introductions among orchids are fewer 

 than usual, and the really gobd acquisitions fewer still- 



