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Plus Ultra, Apollo, and Striatum, a varieerated form of Roseutu 
pictum, and very striking when true. There are many others 
omitted, such as Luteum Striatum, Fanny Boucharlet, La Frissure, 
Nuit d’Automne, and Tendresse, which are all good, but not so 
well known as many I have named in the fifty. Messrs. Veitch 
and Sons and other firms have several good varieties to introduce 
this forthcoming season, so that presently we may have a collec¬ 
tion of seventy-two varieties as with exhibiting Roses, and many 
of those varieties named in this collection have been introduced 
within the last few years ; whilst Wizard, To Kio, Abdel Kader, 
and other small-sized but beautiful dark flowers are now quite 
surpassed. 
Section IV. — Large Anemone-flowered varieties. — Fleur de 
Marie, Gluck, Lady Margaret, George Sand, Mrs. Pethers, Prince 
of Anemones, Acquisition, King of Anemones, Sunflower, Louis 
Bonamy, Empress, Madame Godereau, Bijou, Margaret of Norway, 
Queen Margaret, Princess Louise, Miss Margaret, and Princess 
Marguerite. 
Section V.—Small Anemone-flowered or Anemone Pompons.— 
Antonius, Firefly, Marie Stuart, Miss Nightingale, Zobeide, Perle, 
Calliope, Dick Turpin, Mr. Astie, Sidonia, Jean Hatchette, 
Madame Chalonge, Regulus, Reine des Anemones, Rose Margaret, 
Mrs. Wyness, Astarte, and Astrea. 
Section VI.—Pompons.—Mdlle. Marthe, Model of Perfection, 
Nelly, Rosinante, Bub, St. Thais, Salamon, Andromeda, Aurore 
Boreale, Lilac Cedo Nulli, Yellow Cedo Nulli, St. Michael, James 
Forsyth, Anna de Belocca, Fanny, Mustapha, Mrs. Hutt, La 
Fianc£, and Golden Madame Marthe. 
To the above may be added the following early-flowering varie¬ 
ties which are suitable for borders—Adrastis, Cassy, Chromatella, 
Delphine Caboche, Fred Pele, Golden Button, Golden Madame 
Domage, Hendersoni, Illustration, Jardin des Plantes, Madame 
Pecaul, Nanum, Precocity, Souvenir d’un Ami, and Madame 
Desgrange.—J. W. Moorman. 
NEW CHAPTER ON OLD PLANTS. 
Among- the beautifully illustrated horticultural periodicals of 
fifty years or so ago, Maund’s “ The Botanist ” is worth a perusal. 
The plates were engraved on copper and were eventually coloured 
by hand. Modern demands necessitate economy of time and 
labour, and in the race after “ much work for little money,” the 
old system of hand-coloured plates seems doomed. With the ces¬ 
sation of the “ Floral Magazine.” the “ Botanical Magazine,” ori¬ 
ginated nearly a century ago by Dr. Curtis, is now nearly the only 
botanical periodical which produces lithographic plates coloured 
by hand. The hand-colouring plan, if tedious, slow, and ex¬ 
pensive, had its own peculiar advantages, and the best examples 
of hand-coloured plates will bear comparison with anything the 
chromo-lithographer can produce so far as artistic excellence and 
finish is concerned. The Luculia plate in “ The Botanist ” (t. 40), 
is a fair example of what is meant. Bateman’s works on Orchids 
contain fine plates produced in this way, as also do Redoute’s 
“Liliacees” and Andrew’s work on Cape Heaths. Our main 
object, however, in now alluding to “The Botanist” is to draw 
attention to a few of the plants therein delineated and described, 
and to ask if they be lost to cultivation or whether change of 
name is the main cause of their having become unfamiliar. After 
a good or interesting plant once becomes fairly well distributed 
it is a rare occurrence for it to be entirely lost. I seldom visit 
an old country garden without discovering some rare old plant 
apparently quite “at home,” and generally the owner of it is 
quite unaware of its being in any way a rarity. It has often 
occurred to me that if some enterprising nurseryman, instead of 
sending all his collectors abroad, would employ a good man to 
search through our gardens at home, many a good and rare plant 
now neglected or extremely local in its distribution would 
be rescued and found worthy of being sent out with a good 
character. Many valuable hints and practical suggestions are 
obtained by carefully turning over old illustrated periodicals 
during the odd moments of leisure one now and then has to spare 
in a library. For example, I always thought of Nelumbium luteum 
as a recent introduction that had not as yet bloomed under culti¬ 
vation in England, when, on turning over the plates in “The 
Botanist,” I find that it was actually introduced half a century 
or more ago, and that it flowered in a stove at Bristol long ere I 
was born. This is a lesson for all of us. To rush forward quickly 
without a thought of the past is not all gain. No doubt as culti¬ 
vators we sometimes unconsciously enact the fable of the “ Dog 
and the Shadow ” by grasping at “ new plants ” too eagerly, and 
by letting go our grasp of the good old ones we previously had. 
I shall be very interested to hear if any of the old plants here 
alluded to as being illustrated in “The Botanist” are now in 
cultivation in this country, and I am quite suie that some of the 
many readers of the Journal will be both able and willing to tell 
me of them. 
Enldantlius reticulatus (t. 1).—As a cool-house shrub this 
plant, never very common, and now, I fear, very rare, deserves 
some notice. The plant tesembles Arbutus or Kalmia in growth 
and leafage, its clusters of pearly white bell-shaped flowers being 
produced along with the young growth. In shape the blossoms 
are Lily of the Valley-like, but each bc*ll is fully half an inch in 
diameter, ten to twenty being produced in a cluster. China. 
Aristolochia trifida (t. 3).—A slender twining species, bearing 
trilobate leaves and solitary axillary flowers, the tube being of 
the characteristic syphon-like shape, and the principal lobe of the 
three into which it is divided at the mouth is of a cordate out¬ 
line, nearly 2 inches across, and exceeding that in length, tapering 
to a tail-like point, which forms a caudate appendage fully a foot 
long. The colour of the expanded heart-shape lobe is dark purple, 
the whole flower being very effective. 
Tecorna australis (t. 8).—A climbing species from New South 
Wales, with trifoliate leafage and axillary racemes of white cam- 
panulate flowers blotched with rosy purple inside. The individual 
flowers are shown an inch long, tapering Pentstemon-like to a 
five-lobed limb, which is half an inch across. 
Anemone vitifolia (t. 9).—A good figure of the true Himalayan 
plant originally introduced to England from India by Lady Am¬ 
herst by means of seeds in 1829. Flowers snow white, quite 
distinct from A. japonica alba, or “ Honorine Jobert,” and scarcely 
hardy without some slight protection. Now again cultivated. 
Nelumbium luteum (t. 13).—A lovely yellow-flowered form of 
N. speciosum, or “ Sacred Lotus,” found wdd in New Jersey, 
Florida, and Louisiana States of North America. Drawing made 
from a specimen “ which flowered splendidly in September, 1839, 
in the stove of Mr. Mdler of Durdham Down Nursery, near 
Bristol.” Cultivated at Kew and Oxford. 
Ceanotlius collinus (t. 15).—A slender-growing species, intro¬ 
duced by the unfortunate collector Douglas in 182G-7, from 
Noith America. The branch figured has oblong dark green leaves 
little over an inch in length, and slender axillary panicles of pure 
white flowers, very small individually, but their general effect is 
that of the finest of silvery filagree work, or the most delicate of 
lace. It is hardy, and flowers in May. 
Biantlim ferruginous (t. 21).—A most graceful plant with a 
Carnation-like habit, but bearing clusters of three to five flowers 
on the apex of a slender stem 15 to 18 inches high. The individual 
flowers are single, nearly an inch in diameter, each petal wedge- 
shaped with toothed margins, and their colour is a soft greenish 
yellow quite distinct from that of any Dianthus known to me. 
Native of Italy', perfectly hardy. 
Rluxia Mariana (t. 27).—A correct figure, showing the inferiority 
of this plant for garden uses as compared with R. virginica. 
Calochortus venustus (t. 29).—A good figure, by Mrs. Withers, 
of a lovely plant. It is now in cultivation. 
Gilia coronopifolia (t. 32). — A slender-growing plant with 
slender grass-like trilobate leaves, and clusters of bright red 
flowers, reminding one of those of some Phloxes. It is hardy, but 
worth frame culture. Introduced by Douglas from North-western 
America. 
ltiles speciosum (t. 37).—A excellent figure of the red Fuchsia- 
flowered Ribes of old Scotch and English gardens. It is now 
grown, but rarely as compared with its great merits, as a wall 
shrub. 
Luculia gratissima (t. 40).—A beautiful plate by Mrs. Withers. 
It is most delicate and exact in its life-life variations of colour 
and shade, and may be taken as a type of the excellence of hand- 
coloured plates when well done. Now in cultivation. 
Philibcrtia gracilis (t. 45).—This is “ Tweedie’s green-flowering 
Asclepias from St. Kathrens ; ” and Mr. N. Niven of the Glasneviu 
Botanical Gardens, having raised plants from Tweedie’s seeds 
collected near Buenos Ayres, was able to supply the specimen 
figured. It is said to root readily from cuttings, and it is thought 
to be hardy enough to succeed on a wall in the open air during 
summer. It is a slender twining plant, having oblong leaves of 
taper shape cordate at the base. From the axils the flowers are 
produced in clusters on slender stalks. The individual flower is 
pendant and bell-shaped, an inch in diameter, quite Hoya-like in 
appearance, of a soft yellow colour densely dotted with red inside. 
It is so pretty as to make us wish for its reintroduction supposing 
that it is really lost. 
Mimulus roseo-cardinalis (t. 48).—A far finer plant than the 
old M. cardinalis figured t. 2. It is a hybrid between M. roseus 
and M. cardinalis, the former being the seed parent. It was 
raised by Mr. Hudson in the Botanical Garden of Bury St. 
Edmunds. “ Many individuals resulted from this cross, which all 
resembled each other, and flowered for the first time during 1837.” 
