Plate 183. 



NEW PICOTEES. 



We here illustrate two very fine new forms of Picotee. They both possess a peculiar 

 merit which entitles them to a place in the first rank of any collection. No. 1, Fanny 

 Helen (31 arris), is an excellent variety, with good broad, smooth, fine-shaped petals, 

 of the purest white, heavily edged with bright rose. It is considered by Mr. Turner to 

 be a perfectly distinct plant. No. 2, Mrs. Gibbons (Gibbons), is a noble flower for exhibition 

 purposes. It is very large, with good pure white petals, of great substance and fine form, 

 heavily edged with bright red. Ail lovers of this most charming flower, the Picotee, can- 

 not but have remarked its wonderful improvement during the last few years. It has 

 improved both in size and form, and in the great breadth and substance of the individual 

 petals. In the best varieties the petals are now remarkable for their smoothness, beautiful 

 clear white grounds, and even marking, which is perfectly clear from spot or bar. Many 

 of the varieties are really superb, and cannot be easily surpassed, particularly those first- 

 class varieties recently sent out by Mr. Turner, of Slough, to whom we are indebted for the 

 two plants here illustrated. Picotecs are generally propagated by layering. This operation 

 should be carried out early in August, and then early in October the layers will be sufficiently 

 rooted to be taken off. These rooted layers should be potted in large sixty-sized pots, a 

 pair in a pot. By this time they require a gentle watering and a place in a cold frame, 

 with the lights kept on for about ten days, and a little air given at the back. They should 

 also be shaded from the sun, and after this time they will have drawn root, and may have 

 the lights taken off on all favourable occasions. 



Plate 184. 

 ARTOCAKPUS CANNONII. 



The deeply coloured and handsome plant here figured belongs to the " Bread-fruit'' 

 tribe, and was exhibited by Mr. Bull at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society held 

 on the 18th of August last, where it attracted great attention. Tbis remarkably orna- 

 mental plant, which is a native of the Society Islands, was first made known to me, says 

 Mr. Bull, by Mr. Walter Hill of Brisbane, and was afterwards sent to me in a living 

 state by Mr. Henderson of Sydney. It is without exaggeration one of the finest coloured- 

 leaved plants which it has ever been my good fortune to offer. It is a plant of free-growing 

 habit, with a woody stem, which is hirsute in the young state. The leaves are very variable 

 in form, alternate and petiolate, the petiole and hairy costa being of a bright red colour. 

 The leaves, which measure at least 1 foot long and 7 inches wide, are of membranous 

 texture, with a glossy upper surface, and of a rich, full, and bronzy-crimson hue, beauti- 

 fully tinted with purple. The colouring is remarkably rich and constant, that of the under 

 surface being of a bright vinous red. 



The form of the leaves varies greatly : some are simple and cordate at the base, parallel- 

 sided, with the apex irregularly lobate ; some have the apex regularly three-lobed, with 

 short entire lobes; some are deeply three-lobed, being divided nearly at the base, the 

 segments themselves, of which the centre one is largest, being shallowly sinuate-lobed, and 

 occasionally the secondary lobes are themselves sinuately toothed. This variety of form 

 and the rich colouring of the polished surface render this one of the most effective coloured- 

 leaved plants of recent introduction ; and there is not the slightest tendency in the colouring 

 to vary or fade, so that the effect produced is a permanent one. 



