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NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
Talauma). — Magnoliaceie § Magnoliese. — A 
fine shrub, growing six or eight feet high, 
with large elliptic leaves acute at both ends, 
and solitary drooping flowers growing at the 
ends of the branches ; these blossoms are 
pale green or greenish yellow tinged with red 
and purple, becoming at last brownish, and 
they consist of about nine almost equal petals. 
There are some varieties of this species dif- 
fering in the form of the leaves. Native of 
Java. Introduced about 1848. Flowers in 
May. Culture. — Requires a cool stove ; turfy 
loam, peat and sand ; propagated by layers, 
by inarching on the common magnolias, or by 
ripened cuttings planted in sand under a glass 
in bottom heat. 
Calochortus pallidus, Sckultes (pale 
Calochortus). — Liliacese § Tulipese. — A pretty 
hardy perennial plant with bulbous roots, 
growing up with numerous grass-like chan- 
nelled leaves, several from the roots and some 
from the flowering stem, which grows six or 
eight inches high ; little bulbils are formed in 
the axils of the upper leaves. The stem bears 
from two to four flowers, each on a rather 
long slender peduncle, arranged in an umbel- 
late manner ; these blossoms are somewhat 
drooping, and consist of six spreading peta- 
loid divisions, of which the three exterior 
are the smallest, ovate-oblong obtuse, the 
three interior much larger, obovate, rounded 
at the apex and attenuated at the base ; they 
are pale yellowish buff-coloured, with a broad 
angular blotch of dark reddish brown, in the 
centre, and three bearded with short hairs. 
Native of Mexico. Introduced to Belgium in 
1844. Flowers in September. Culture. — 
Requires to be grown in a cool dry frame ; 
sandy peat soil ; propagated readily by means 
of the bulbils borne on the stems. 
Metrostderos polymorpha, Gaudichaud 
(polymorphous Iron-wood). — Myrtacese § 
Leptospermese. — A pretty robust growing 
evergreen shrub, with opposite leaves assum- 
ing various forms, of leathery texture, and 
shining on both surfaces ; sometimes the 
leaves are roundish-elliptic, sometimes ovate, 
sometimes oblong, sometimes lance-shaped. 
The flowers, which grow in terminal and 
axillary corymbs, are of a crimson colour, and 
rather ornamental. The hard heavy dark- 
brown timber which furnishes the South Sea 
islanders with their clubs and other weapons, 
is said to be in part furnished by this plant. 
Native of the Sandwich Islands, at an elevation 
of from 900 to 1,800 feet. Introduced about 
1844. Flowers in July. Culture. — Requires 
a greenhouse ; suitable for planting in a 
greenhouse conservatory, or against a conser- 
vative wall ; turfy loam and peat ; propa- 
gated by cuttings planted in sand under bell- 
glasses, or by seeds. 
Escallonia macrantha. Hooker and Ar- 
nott (large-flowered Escallonia). — Escallonia- 
ceae. — A beautiful evergreen shrub, with nu- 
merous branches, which are covered with 
glandular pubescence and furnished with 
smallish ovate-elliptic rich green glossy leaves, 
which are bluntish at the apex, wedge shaped 
at the base, and bluntly crenate on the mar- 
gins ; these leaves are full of resinous dots 
beneath. The flowers grow in somewhat 
drooping clusters at the ends of the numerous 
twigs, the lower peduncles being simple and 
axillary, and the upper ones racemose ; they 
consist of five petals, which are connivent be- 
low, producing the appearanceof a short tubu- 
lar blossom having a short spreading limb ; 
they are of a glowing rosy-pink, nearly an 
inch in length. Native of Chiloe, aud also of 
Patagonia. Introduced by Messrs. Veitchl in 
1848-. Flowers during the summer mouths. 
Culture. — Apparently hardy in the climate of 
Devonshire, where it has stood three winters 
unprotected, according to the statement of 
Messrs. Veitch ; a beautiful plant for a con- 
servative wall in less favourable situations ; 
good free loamy soil ; propagated by layers, or 
by cuttings planted in sandy soil, under hand- 
glasses, without heat. 
HORTICULTURAL NOTES. 
Rhubarb Preserves. — Rheum Emodi 
makes a most deliciously flavoured preserve, 
nearly if not quite equal to that of the Wine- 
sour Plum. It may also be made so as to 
nearly resemble Tamarinds, being a y^Yj 
fine acid. This Rhubarb was many years 
since distributed to the Fellows of the Horti- 
cultural Society from Nepal, but owing to its 
lateness and great acidity, it was generally 
soon rooted out, and is now seldom seen in 
gardens. It is however well worthy of a place 
in all, merely for preserving. — Gardener'' s 
Chronicle. 
Lambs' Lettuce, or Corn Salad ( Valeri- 
anella olitoria). — The merits of this homely 
plant are not so well known as they should 
be. It forms a first-rate ingredient in a salad, 
and is, I believe, an excellent purifier of the 
blood. Being a native of Britain, it is very 
hardy, and, if sown in July, August, and 
September, an excellent succession of it will 
be kept up during the winter. Then sow 
again in spring. If a large frame can be 
spared, the best plants might be taken up with 
balls and planted thickly in it. The cultivator 
could then have it at command. I have never 
blanched it, and therefoi'e cannot say whether 
that would improve it or not. Sow in beds 
or rows six inches apart ; thin out afterwards 
to six inches in the row. It will afford many 
cuttings, if not cut down too closely. — Gar- 
\dener's Chronicle. 
