July 19, 1888 ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTTCTTLTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER 
53 
OSTROWSKIA MAGNTFICA. 
Novelties so distinct in character as the beautiful plant recently 
exhibited under the above peculiar generic name by Messrs. J. Veitch 
upon the plant, and except to a few specialists amongst hardy flowers, 
who watch the continental works and catalogues closely for novelties, 
the name will, like the plant, be a total stranger at present. It is not 
Fig. fi.—OSTROWSKIA MAGNIFICA. 
■and Sons of Chelsea are rarely seen, and quite a little crowd of admirers 
■gathered round the box containing the specimens at the Westminster 
Drill Hall on thi 11th ir.st. Gardeners will search in vain in their 
Paxton’s or Johnson’s Dictionaries for the Russian-looking title bestowed 
likely to remain so long, as the gigantic campanulaceous flowers are 
followed by proportionately huge pods of seed, and stock will in a sea¬ 
son or two be abundant enough. Even now it seems that though the 
plant has only been in the hands of the nurserymen for a comparatively 
