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major. These charming rosebays are both profuse 
bloomers, capital trussers, exquisitely fragrant, as 
the honeysuckle or the rose, and admirably suited 
for winter forcing as well as grouping. The chief 
distinction resides in the size of the flowers, which, 
as regards colour, are pinkish white, or occasionally 
of a lilac or light purplish hue. 
R. Azaleoides Cartonianum. Another beantiful 
free-blooming kind, with fine heads of flowers, in 
the colour of which red and bluish purple appear 
to predominate. 
B. oculatum. This is one of the light flowering 
sorts, a good trusser, the upper limb of the corolla 
of a golden hue, and thickly studded with choco- 
late coloured markings. 
R. guttatum. This is a superb, robust growing 
Rhododendron, possessing all the good qualities of 
the last mentioned, with larger and more con- 
spicuous flowers, supported on longer peduncles, 
and the petal spots more ruddy than E. oculatum. 
The foliage too, is distinct and good, and from the 
vigorous habit of the specimens shown to us, this 
kind seems well adapted for forming into standards, 
than which, when a good broad head is obtained 
and in full bloom, nothing can be more truly noble 
and rich. 
R. multimaculatum. A distinct and very hardy, 
robust growing, light flowering sort, the upper 
portion of the corolla extensively bespotted. There 
is also an interesting semi-double variety of this 
fine rosebay. 
R. j>onticum atropurpureum. The finest late- 
flowering dark variety we are acquainted with. It 
is a most profuse bloomer, and the colour of the 
flowers, as the name imports, is of a deeper and 
richer purple than the common R. ponticum. It 
is altogether a most desirable kind, and from its 
propensity to bloom so late in the season, is deserv- 
ing of extensive introduction into every collection 
of hardy American plants. 
Those who take interest in Hardy Ornamental 
Trees and Shrubs, would do well to pay the 
Exotic Nurseries of Chelsea and at Battersea a 
visit ; for at the latter, especially, Messrs. Knight 
and Perry have assembled in a short time a vast 
collection of interesting novelties and specimens, 
in the way of ornamental trees and shrubs. 
The Arboretum at Bicton, which is considered 
one of the richest and most extensive in Europe, 
has been mainly supplied with its rarest subjects 
from Messrs. Knight and Perry's establishments, 
from which we have only space here to enumerate 
a few of those to which our attention was directed ; 
nor is this material, as w^e contemplate embracing 
an early opportunity of introducing a formal 
article on this — one of the most interesting, and 
yet neglected departments of Gardening. 
TiLiA MississiPiENsis. This extraordinary fo- 
liaged lime we noticed in the Battersea Nursery, 
with leaves 14 inches in diameter upon plants 
only 2 or 3 feet high ! 
In the Chelsea Nursery we observed an extensive 
assortment of hardy ornamental Oaks, some of 
which were exceedingly interesting and distinct, 
including a fine plant of the rare Quercus Japonica, 
or Q. glabra. Also Berheris Fortuni. 
Ligustrum Japonica, Euonymus Jimbriata. — A 
very handsome growing shrub. Polygonum vaci- 
nafolia — admirably adapted for planting exten- 
sively among rockwork. 
Panax horrida, Osteosmales ferruginea. 
Daphne Japonica variegata. The name of 
which is scarcely expressive of the appearance of 
the plant, as much of the foliage is quite white, 
and many other equally rare and valuable hardy 
ornamental plants. 
Escallonia macrantlia. This ornamental Escal- 
loniad was produced at the June exhibition of the 
Horticultural Society, by Messrs. Veitch of Exeter, 
who have already been the fortunate introducers of 
so many rare plants in the hardy ornamental line. 
The plant exhibited being pot-grown, did not 
present its true luxuriant character to the extent 
that a cut branch from a specimen which had 
thrice experienced Devonshire winters in their 
nursery at Exeter, did. Messrs. Yeitch consider it 
will prove quite as hardy in North Britain as it is 
found to be in the south ; and should their expec- 
tations be ultimately realised, such a fine evergreen 
as this, will be an interesting addition to collections, 
either as a single specimen for the Arboretum, 
or on the lawn, or for planting en masse in broad 
shrubbery foregrounds. Altogether, it is a shrub 
of considerable beauty ; the inflorescence forming 
handsome terminal corymbs of large, tubular, ruby- 
coloured or purplish crimson flowers, which contrast 
strikingly with the rich verdure of its foliage. 
Introduced through their own collectors from 
Patagonia, by the above-mentioned enterprising 
gentlemen. Also from Messrs. Yeitch, at the 
Chiswick Meeting in June. 
Lisiantlius pidcher. A promising new plant, 
with bright scarlet tubular florescence, but neither 
sufficiently grown or flowered, to enable any just 
appreciation of its merits or demerits to be 
arrived at. Also, a new species of Ruellia with 
sub-Gloxinia-like, bluish flowers, to which similar 
observations are applicable. 
Cattleya marginata. Magnificent and beautiful 
as are many of the Cattleyas already in our col- 
lections of Orchidece, the present surpassingly 
beautiful one is unequalled in the richness of its 
labellum. It certainly resembles C. siiperba, but 
so far surpasses that really fine species in exquisite 
beauty, that it seems almost unjust to institute a 
comparison of their respective merits. Although 
the plant exhibited was small, and evidently not 
in a very luxuriant state, it nevertheless possessed 
sufficient attractions to enable an opinion to be 
formed of what may be ultimately expected of it 
under cultivation ; and especially as such fine 
objects as C. Mossice, bearing a score or more of 
its noble blossoms, are not now uncommon. Its 
sepals and petals are of a deep rosy crimson, of 
greater breadth than Cattleya superba, whilst the 
lip of the flower is intensely blotted with crimson- 
violet or stained with the richest dark maroon 
colour. This superb epiphyte is from Brazil, and 
was produced at the Horticultural Society's Chis- 
wick Meeting in June, by the Messrs. Loddiges' of 
Hackney. 
Odontoglossum, spe. nov. A handsome inew 
species in flower was exhibited at the above floral 
fete by Mr. Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., 
