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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



short petioles, which are jointed on the branch, hence the leaves readily fall off in drying ; they are heartshaped-ovate, 

 acute, reticulated, palish green. Flowers pure white, or, in bud, greenish-white, arranged in spikes which are solitary 

 and terminal on a main branch, or on short side branches. In growing it at Kew we have made use of good yellow loam, 

 mixed with a little leaf -mould and sand. In this it has attained the height of eight feet, and continues in a perfectly 

 healthy state."— Botanical Magazine, t. 4502. 



Epaceis Onosm^flora Flore-Pleno. A greenhouse evergreen shrub.; introduced 

 by Mr. Bull, from Australia. 



Bearing a profusion of double flowers, white in colour. They are produced over a considerable length of the 

 preceding summer's shoots, at the base of each leaf, giving it a very charming appearance. It is of a somewhat erect 

 rigid habit, and very suitable for general decorative purposes. Like the other better-known species, it is easily grown, 

 requiring nothing more than ordinary greenhouse treatment. It blooms during the spring. 



Tigridia Lutea. This is a half-hardy plant belonging to the natural order Iridacese, 

 and is indigenous to Peru and Chili ; not equal for the general effect of its flowers to the 

 old but most beautiful T. Pavonia, but, nevertheless, a handsome flower. It bloomed with 

 Mr. Elwes, at Cirencester. 



" Bulb ovoid. Stem terete, about afoot long, bearing three or four distinctly superposed leaves, and a single terminal 

 head of flowers. Leaves sessile, linear, acuminate, four to six inches long, a quarter of an inch broad, bright green, 

 strongly plicate, glabrous. Spathe one and a half to two inches long. Two to four flowered, opening in succession 

 on different days. Pedicels as long as the spathe. Ovary oblong. Perianth yellow, very fugative, an inch and a half 

 across. Segments forming a cup dotted with brown. Filaments united to the top in a cylindrical column. Anthers 

 ligulate. Style-arms cut down nearly to the base into two hooked forks. " — Botanical Magazine, 6295. 



Abies Jezoensis. Siebold. A magnificent evergreen coniferous tree from Japan. 

 Introduced by Messrs. Standish and Co. Leaves of a brilliant green. (Pig. 2-5.) 



According to Siebold, the Jezo Spruce is so called because it grows on the islands of Jezo and Krafto, in the empire 

 of Japan, whence it has been introduced into the gardens of the wealthy inhabitants of Jedo. He describes it as a large 

 tree, with a soft light wood, employed by the Japanese for arrows, and in the construction of domestic utensils. The 

 leaves are said to remain for seven years upon the branches. The cones were unknown to him. He only saw the tree 

 in flower in the month of June. 



Libeetia Panictjlata. A greenhouse perennial, free-flowering and handsome. 

 Raised from seeds received at Kew from New South Wales. Blooms in the spring. 



"Root-stock short, terminated by a tuft of distichous glossy foliage. Leaves three-quarters to one foot long, by 

 one-third to half an inch broad ; narrow, linear, acuminate, nerved and keeled, margin quite entire. Stem or scape one to 

 two feet high, slender, compressed, with or without a lanceolate-subulate leaf below the inflorescence. Panicle long, 

 irregular ; branches distinct, alternate, almost erect, with a sub-membranaceous erect sheathing, subulate lanceolate 

 bract at the base of each. Flowers sub-umbellate ; umbels with short broad membranaceous bracts ; pedicels slender, 

 lengthening after flowering, jointed under the flower. Perianth three-quarters of an inch diameter. Segment horizontal, 

 narrowly oblong, obtuse, white. Filaments erect, slender, connate at the base. Anthers yellow. Ovary obovoid. Style 

 short. Stigmas three, spreading horizontally, subulate tips, papillose ; capsule nearly globose, membranous. Seeds 

 numerous, small, angular." — Botanical Magazine, 6263. 



Artocarptts Cannonh. A stove shrub or tree, from the Society Islands. 



A handsome plant, of free erect growth, that will no doubt attain a considerable size. The leaves appear to vary 

 much in form; some are simple and cordate at the base, lobed irregularly more or less at the apex; others three-lob ed 

 at the apex, often deeply so, the centre one the largest. They are bronzy-crimson in colour, shaded with purple on the 

 upper surface ; beneath, bright red. Petioles pubescent, also red in colour. From the part of the world to which it is 

 indigenous, there is not much chance of its succeeding without a warm house in which to grow, which somewhat detracts 

 from its value. 



