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MISCELLANEOUS. 
Bignonia Charriberlaynii. In the Nursery of the 
gentlemen just alluded to, this beautiful old species 
has been in a fine state for several months past, 
completely covering the roof of a warm green- 
house or intermediate stove, where it is trained, 
and displaying its fine axillary panicles of orange- 
yellow flowers, in unrestricted profusion, forming a 
striking and pleasing contrast with its broad rich 
green foliage. 
Like many other old, neglected, and in too 
many instances, almost lost and forgotten plants, 
which it is alike our province and gratification to 
bring thus prominently before the notice of culti- 
vators ; the subject of our notice (a fine plate of 
which is given in the fourteenth volume of our 
“Magazine of Botany”) is a Brazilian species, 
introduced some thirty years ago, rarely to be met 
with, even in a condition of mediocrity ; still less 
frequently do we find it in the enjoyment of such 
luxuriant beauty, or so prolific of its lovely blos- 
soms, as it has appeared in the Exotic Nursery at 
different periods of our visiting there during the 
current season ; and now, after having flowered 
profusely a good portion of the summer, we find it 
in autumn, and even on the approach of winter, 
commencing a fresh display of its floral charms. 
It is a plant, the cultivation of which is attended 
with no difficulty whatever ; and like the majority 
of the genus, will flower freely enough, provided a 
temperature somewhat higher in winter than that 
of the ordinary greenhouse, and plenty of room 
to permit its rambling propensity, is accorded it, 
either on the rafters, ornamental columns or trel- 
liage of the structure, where it is grown. 
Anemone Japonica, var. A good variety of the 
above showy species has been obtained by hybri- 
dization, in the Horticultural Society’s Gardens, 
Turnham Green, a specimen of which was exhi- 
bited at the last meeting of the Society at the 
council rooms in Regent Street. Subsequently, 
we have been favoured with an opportunity of 
inspecting a large quantity together with some 
fine specimens in bloom in the Gardens of the 
Society, where it appeared to continue very true to 
the first appearances of improvement : in some 
respects it is undoubtedly superior, the flowers 
— though of a more pallid hue than the original 
{A. Japonica ) — being more regular in the disposi- 
tion and conformation of the petals, which before 
expansion, compose a more perfect globular 
arrangement, than is apparent in the old variety, 
with which it is on a par in other important 
respects, being equally as hardy, as conspicuous, 
and as proliferous of blossoms. 
Tea-scented Boses. In the large conservatory 
attached to these (Horticultural) gardens, the Tea- 
scented Roses are conspicuously beautiful and 
attractive objects a considerable portion of the 
year, and finer specimens we have rarely, if ever, 
met with ; on each occasion of our revisiting this 
establishment during the present season, these 
roses were exhibiting a profusion of their delight- 
fully scented, gay flowers, and even now that the 
“year is on the wane,” they give promise of a 
prolonged display. 
Their attracti veness and ornamental efficacy, to 
say nothing of the delicious perfume which they 
exhale, since they seldom attain to much perfection 
out of doors, cannot be over-estimated either for 
large or small conservatories, where the tempera- 
ture seldom ranges higher than that of a common 
greenhouse ; for notwithstanding that the speci- 
mens in the Horticultural Society’s large house have 
attained to an unusual condition of luxuriance (some 
of them being from six to ten feet high) ; by a con- 
stant attention to pruning, or dwarfing of Tea-scented 
Roses, by stopping and pinching back a few joints 
all the vigorously-inclined shoots, especially those 
produced towards the base, throughout the growing 
season, the plants will readily assimilate themselves 
to any reasonable space, and become more prolific 
in florescence. 
The following are the principal sorts employed 
in the conservatory at Chiswick : — 
Belle AUemande. A large, fine, rose cream, 
shaded blush. 
Bougere, pale, rosy bronze. 
Elise Sauvage, fine deep straw-colour, a splendid 
rose. 
Hardy , vivid rose-colour. 
Manuals, large buff, rosy centre. 
Silene, rose, changing to crimson. 
Triomphe de Luxembourg, buff and rose, very 
large and fine. 
Madame Goubault, salmon, globular, large and 
beautiful. 
Miranda. Jeanie Deans, &c. 
Considerable variety is comprised in the fore- 
going, which are not confined in pots, but planted 
in the principal bed or central space of the con- 
servatory, at intervals, amongst the specimens of 
New Holland plants, &c., where, trained out, and 
supported by two or three stout stakes, they pro- 
duce a fine effect when in bloom, and an excellent 
succession of flowers is maintained by foreshorten- 
ing a portion of their luxuriant shoots at intervals 
throughout the season of active growth. 
Abronia umbellata. As a bedding plant, this 
novelty has, generally speaking, afforded as yet but 
little satisfaction to those who have planted it out, 
but we are inclined to hope that the disappointing 
results of its employment for flower-garden pur- 
poses, must be attributed to the circumstance of its 
succulent stems being permitted to repose in con- 
tact with the soil, and by that means become sus- 
ceptible of “ damping off ” during a very humid 
state of the atmosphere and the ground. 
When trained erect, however, its succulence is no 
barrier to its employment, and if protected some- 
what, it will succeed very well in the open ground, 
and there is also every probability of its doing so, 
by the provision of small portions of rockwork, 
flints or scoria, for it to recline upon ; but appa- 
rently it is too delicate a plant for full exposure to 
rough weather, where the sweeping breezes of early 
autumn can pass over it, unbroken and unprotected 
by artificial precautions ; hence, if its culture in 
the open air be attempted at all, a sheltery site 
must be allotted it, and although this cannot 
well be accomplished in the fully exposed parterre, 
where the gay vervain and its more sturdy com- 
peers will flourish, heedless of the breeze that 
rushes o’er, or plays around them ; a situation 
might be found in some sheltered nook of the 
