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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



flat, thin-sided, and very often arranged in a stany manner. They are evidently the 

 beginning of the raments (?) of Bejaria. 



In one respect both leaves and stem are unlike either parent. The latter is of a rich 

 crimson brown, and the former are covered with an abundant resinous secretion, which 

 renders them sticky to the touch. 



THE VERYAENE RHODODENDRON. 



Although derived from a different source, and much less interesting than the preceding, 

 the variety published by M. Van Houtte under the name of Rhododendron ponticum, var. 

 Yervaeneanum, fiore pleno, deserves mention in this place. It was no hybrid, but was an 

 accidental seedling obtained by a M. Yervaene, a dont les heureuses tentatives de semis ont 

 dote 1" horticulture de cette riche acquisition,'''' from Rhododendron ponticum. According to 

 M. Van. Houtte, it is no less remarkable for the elegance of its habit, than for the abundance 

 of its flowers, the great breadth of its heads and of its corolla, and for its delicate tints. 

 His very fine figure represents it as forming a head about as large as that shown in the 

 annexed plate ; the flowers measure full three inches in diameter, are semi-double, of a 

 rich lilac colour, with the upper lip white, spotted with yellow. See Flore des Serres, 

 tt, 492, 493. 



