144 THE FLORIST AND 
NEW PLANTS OF 1854. 
The new plants of the year just past have been numerous, and include 
several of importance in an ornamental point of view, though they are on 
the whole, perhaps, less striking than the introductions of former years. As 
of yore, the Messrs. Veitch have taken the lead in the work of introduction ; 
but the lovers of gardens and of floral novelties have also to acknowledge 
the instrumentality in this matter of various other cultivators, among whom 
Messrs. Standish and Noble, Low, Henderson, Osborn, Rollisson, and Back- 
house, and the botanical establishments of Kew and Glasnevin, may be 
specially noted. 
Of hardy plants, the scarlet and yellow flowered Holly-like Desfontainea 
spinosa is probably the most interesting ; and this, together with two bril- 
liant blue-flowered Ceanoths — C. Lobbi and C. floribundus — will be very 
valuable additions to select flowering shrubs ; the latter are probably better 
adapted for walls than for open borders. Torreya Myristice, the Californian 
Nutmeg, is also a striking and valuable plant, having very much the aspect 
of Cephalotaxus Fortuni, and probably hardy. Other interesting Conifers 
brouo-ht into notice are the free-growing Thuja gigantea, a very promising 
evergreen ; and Abies Kssmpferi, a deciduous tree, like the Larch. Thuiop- 
sis dolabrata and borealis, and Pinus Royleana, Jeff"reyana, and Parryana, 
of which less seems known, are also additions to this class. Among hardy 
perrenials, the most remarkable, of which we have any knowledge, is the 
blue Gentiana Fortuni, from Northern China, a real gem of its class. Prim- 
ula mollis, a gay, rosy-flowered plant, is probably better adapted for frame 
culture than for the open borders, though no doubt hardy in sheltered situa- 
tions. 
As hardy or half-hardy annnals we have added Whitlavia grandifiora, a 
Sne, blue-flowered plant, with the habit of Eutoca ; a dwarf, small-flowered 
Eschscholtzia, called tenuifolia ; a deep orange variety of the beautiful 
Leptosiphon luteus, or, as it is sometimes called, Gilia lutea ; and last, 
though not least, the brilliant crimson annual Flax, Linum grandiflorum, of 
which a spurious red kind is in cultivation, and which is also impersonated 
in some collections by a large variety of the common blue Flax. The gen- 
uine kind is a very brilliant plant, and should be sought for, if not already 
obtained. Another promising annual of the half-hardy class, or probably 
best suited for greenhouse pot culture, is the Acrolinium roseum, an exceed- 
ingly gay, pink-flowered " Everlastng," introduced from Swan River. 
Of half-hardy perennials the most prominent which has appeared is Lysi- 
