PAXTON'S FLOWER GAEDEN. 



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and this impression has in no way been 

 impaired upon further acquaintance, 

 when its growth has been more fully 

 developed. It is from western 

 tropical Africa, and will doubt- 

 less., therefore, require a 

 brisk stove temperature, 

 with soil of a peaty 

 nature, intermixed 

 with a little sand, 

 and kept mode- 

 rately moist at 

 the root, and 

 in the atmos- 

 phere. 



" It lias erect 

 stems, from which 

 are produced stout 

 leaf-stalks, support- 

 ing leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate in form, 

 ample in size, trans- 

 versely marked with 

 broad alternate wavy 

 bands of dark green 

 and pale greenish- 

 grey, clear, and well 

 defined. "—Gardener's 

 Chronicle, 1872, p. 

 1232. 



Berberis Japonica. Liiiclley ; alias 

 Ilex japonica, Thunberg ; alias Mahonia 

 japonica, De Canclolle ; alias Berberis 

 beallii, Fortune. A magnificent 

 evergreen shrub, with broad pin- 

 nated leaves, imported from 

 the north of China, by 

 Messrs. Standish and Co. 

 At Fig. % is repre- 

 sented the upper part 

 of the leaves of 

 the natural 

 size. 



"Alive plant has 

 now been received 

 by Messrs. Standish 

 and Noble, of Bag- 

 shot, from Mr. For- 

 tune, who informs 

 them that it grows 

 from 100 to 150 

 miles north of 

 Shanghae, and that 

 it is the most gi- 

 gantic of the Ber- 

 berries. A leaf 

 which has been sent 

 me by Mr. Stand- 

 ish is nearly fifteen 

 inches long, and of 

 a stout leathery 



