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NEW AND RAKE PLANTS. 
gardener to C. B. Warmer, Esq., of Hoddesdon, had a 
small plant of the curious Cypripedium caudatum, to 
Tvliich a certificate was assigned ; the rai-e and pretty 
Ccelogyne cristata, and some other orchids. 
Messrs. Jaclison and Son, of Kingston, contrihuted 
a seedling CameUia, called Comitess of Ellesmere, a 
pretty cupped white flower, slightly marked with pale 
rosy piu'ple ; the petals are tolerably fii'm, but rather 
seiTated on the edges, and the centre is a little confused ; 
the flower, however, is very superior to most of the 
same class, and having good foliage, ■naU prove an 
acquisition. From Mr. Glendinning, of Chiswiok, was 
a seedling Heath, of the aristata breed, for which a cer- 
tificate was awarded ; it is apparently a cross between 
E. ampullacea vittata, and aristata major, producing 
long slender flowers of the colour of aristata ; the plant 
appears of stubborn growth, and, though desirable, will 
doubtless be scarce for some years to come. Azalea 
Gladstanesii magniflca, a seedling, was sent by Mr. 
Ambrose, of Battersea, but being inferior to its parent, 
is, though pretty, not of much importance. From the 
garden of J. Dimsdale, Esq., Mr. Phunbley sent Erica 
Willmoreana, a largo plant almost in a state of nature, 
bu tfinely blossomed ; E. transparens in a similar state ; 
the rare and curious E. penicillata ; and the large white 
flowered E. triumphans. Messrs. Henderson sent an 
hybrid Gloxinia, a pale lilac variety, \vith richly 
pencilled throat, called Frederic Lenning ; and six 
small blooming plants, not more than thi-ee inches in 
height, of Cantua bicolor. 
The plants irom the Society's Garden comprised, 
among others, the Dielytra siiectabilis, a herbaceous 
perennial of great beauty, supposed to be hardy ; Nut- 
tallia cerasiformis, an inconspicuous shiiib fi'om Cali- 
fornia; the fragrant Ehynehospermum jasminoidcs; a 
large plant of Henfreya scandens ; Boronia teti'andi'a, 
called in nm-serics B. microphyUa — a species with pale 
colom'ed flowers, and pinnate leaves with linear seg- 
ments ; and Acacia ovata, a kind suitable for pot-culture. 
Several Cinerarias were also sent, among which Adola 
ViUiers and Coronet were the best; the others, Eoyal 
Crimson, Candidate, and Bellina, though new, being 
very coarse. 
Of Fruit, Black Hamburgh Grapes, beautifully 
ripened, were sent by Mr. Mitchell, of Kemp Town, 
Brighton ; and some Keens' Seedling Strawhen-ies, good 
for the season, came from Mr. Higgs, gardener to J. 
Barchard, Esq. Of inventions. Brown's Fumigator, a 
useful insb'ument, was exhibited ; and a scheme for 
the maturation of wall-fruit, by means of bell-glasses, 
was shown by a person from Kensington. 
NEW AND BARE PLANTS. 
Beeberis Walliohiana, Be Candolle. 'Wallich's 
Berberry. [Jom-n. Hort. Soc, v., 4.)— Nat. Ord., Ber- 
beracea?, § BerberideiE. — Syn., B. atrovii'ens, Don; B. 
macrophyUa, of c/ardcns. — A beautiful evergreen shrub, 
five to ten feet high, and hardy, or nearly so. The 
branches are armed with long, slender, thi-ee-parted 
spines. The leaves are dark green, growing in clusters, 
dense, three or four inches long, oblong-lance-shaped. 
with a sharp point. The flowers are clustered from the 
axils of the leaves, and are of a pale yellow colour. — 
From Java : mountains at an elevation of 9,000 feet ; in- 
troduced, in 1845, by Mr. T. Lobb. Flowers not yet pro- 
duced in England. Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter. 
NuTTAiLiA cEKAsiFOKMis, Torrey and Gray. Bird- 
Cherry-like NuttaUia. {Journ. Sort. Soc, iv., 222.)— 
Nat. Ord., Eosaceas, § Quillaia3. — A dwarf, deciduous. 
hardy shrub, growing two feet high, and bearing 
thin, half-transparent, oblong, or oblong-ovate leaves, 
pale green above, and rather glaucous beneath. The 
flowers — which are small, five-petaUed, greenish- white 
— grow in nodding racemes, which spring from the base 
of the young shoots, opposite one of the earliest leaves ; 
they are produced before the leaves are developed, and 
soon fall. — From Cahfomia : woods near Monterey ; in- 
troduced, in 1848, by Mr. Hartweg. Flowers iu Feb- 
ruary and March. Horticultural Society of London. 
Berberis Dakwlnii, SooTcer, Darwin's Berbeny. 
{Journ. Hort. Soc, v., 6.) — Nat. Ord., Berberacete, § 
Berberidese. — A beautiful, evergreen shi-ub, growing 
three to five feet high, and apparently quite hardy. The 
branches are of a rusty brown colour ; the leaves deep 
shining green, small but densely placed, about three- 
quarters of an inch long, with three large, spiny teeth 
at the end, and one or two on each side, neai' the middle. 
The flowers are deep orange, and grow in erect racemes. 
— From Cluloe and Patagonia : mountains near the 
summer limit of snow ; introduced in 1846. Flowers 
not yet produced in England. Messrs. Veitch and Son, 
of Exeter. 
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