S38 
NEW TREES, SHRUBS AND PLANTS. 
California, Peru, Chili, Chiloe, Patagonia, in the 
West; and the Khasija hills, the provinces of 
Tenasserim, Java, Malacca, and the ghauts of 
Malabar, in the East, have been gleaned, and 
the result is gathered into hothouses, or trans¬ 
ferred to the open air in the fertile soil and happy 
climate of Devonshire. Let us record a few of 
the species which caught our eye on a recent 
visit to this wealthy establishment. 
“First among the new plants is to be mentioned 
Saxe-Gothccaconspicua , a most beautiful evergreen 
from the Andes of Patagonia, with the aspect 
of a Yew tree, which H. R. H. Prince Albert 
has permitted to bear one of his names. This 
tree has lived for four years in the open air, and 
has all the appearance of being as hardy as an 
Araucaria. From the same country comes Fitz- 
Roya Palagonica , another valuable Conifer, with 
drooping branches, and also the habit of a Yew; 
with the Libocedrus tetragona , an Arbor-vitse-like 
tree, having four-cornered shoots; all, we be¬ 
lieve, exclusively in the possession of Messrs. 
Yeitch. 
“Among other evergreens, the existence of 
which in England is unsuspected, is the great 
Oblique Beech Tree, from Patagonia (Fagus 
abliqua ;) Eucryphia cordata , with hard, heart- 
shaped leaves, and flowers line a Tea plant; 
Castanea ehrysopliylla, the Evergreen Californian 
Chestnut; great bushes of Philesia , just begin¬ 
ning to produce their crimson tubular flowers, 
2 inches long, in the midst of hard, stiff, deep, 
green leaves; Pernettya ciliaris , with its black- 
green broad leaves and heaps of dull purple 
berries, not to mention the other species mucro- 
ncita and anguslifolia , loaded with pale berries, 
gay with ruddy tints; Laurus aromatica , a Chil¬ 
ian evergreen, whose leaves are much more fra¬ 
grant than Sweet Bay ; Embothrium coccineum, 
long tufts of crimson blossoms; Eugenia apicu- 
lata and Myrtus Ugni , Chilian Myrtles, the 
latter with a fruit like a purple Guava; and, 
finally, the rare and curious Desfontainia spi- 
nosa, with the air of a Holly bush and the flower 
of a scarlet trumpet Honeysuckle. Of this one 
single flower had been produced upon a cutting 
in a pot. 
“Many are the new or little known evergreen 
Ber-berries collected here : B. Darwinii , growing 
into a round, glittering, exquisitely beautiful 
bush; B. flexuosa , a handsome shrub, with 
Straggling branches ; B. lutea , a pretty diminu¬ 
tive thing; and several other species, at present 
undetermined. Eurybia alpina , from New Zea¬ 
land, here vindicates its claim to hardiness, 
along with Escallonia Pceppigiana , a Peruvian 
bush, loaded with white flowers early m u lc 
summer, and a great stiff-leaved Dracsena, from 
New Zealand, which may be Dr. indivisa. 
“Nor are deciduous hardy plants less common 
here. An Indian palmated Rubus is loaded with 
yellow fruit as large as an Antwerp Raspberry; 
great masses of a North wall are covered with 
the scarlet perennial Tropceolum speciosum, which 
disregards frost but abhors the sun; the hairy- 
stemmed Tropccolum Lobbianum is curling round 
a rough stake, and decorating it with its ver- 
million-colored flowers; and Pavia California, 
the Californian Horse Chestnut, has established 
itself in the open quarters of the nursery. Quan¬ 
tities of huge Indian Liliumgiganteum are ha r n 
ing to prepare for flowering another ‘. ear, And 
heaps of rockwork are glittering with Oxalis 
speciosa. 
“Among plants of home origin, we ought to 
point out the Hedera Ragneriana, a kind of Ivy 
with monstrous heart-shaped leaves; Cotoneas- 
tersy and such plants worked half-standard high 
on the common Thorn; a noble looking Holly 
called Ilex atla-clerensis , which seems to have 
some of the blood of balearica in it; a handsome 
variety of Arbutus Andrachne, called pholinicefoliay 
and most beautiful specimens of that noble 
Fuchsia corallina, whose origin has lately been 
disputed, but which bears unmistakable evi¬ 
dence of having been derived in part from F> 
radicans or some allied species. 
“This sketch of the hardy plants that are already 
saleable in this establishment, renders an account 
of the tender plants less interesting for the mo¬ 
ment. To them we may return hereafter. For 
the present it is sufficient to name among the 
new plants Lapageria rosea , a climber from 
Chiloe, with very large crimson blossoms, a fine 
new Hoya, with long leathery leaves, some most 
elegant Indian Sonerilas with variegated foliage, 
a Peruvian Begonia, whose leaves are one con¬ 
fused stain of crimson, purple, green, and silver 
grey; Cinchona Condaminea, one of the true 
Peruvian bark trees, a plant with a most deli¬ 
cious perfume, now flowering for the first time in 
Europe; and quantities of Indian Orchids, 
among which the D. albosanguineum stands pre¬ 
eminent. As to the Orchids, no plants can ex¬ 
ceed their health and beauty, unless it be the 
choicest of Mr. Rucker’s collection. In short* 
turn where you will, the eye meets nothing but 
what is most fine and rare, in this surprising 
collection of Messrs. Yeitch.” 
Plow clay lands deep in the autumn and win 
ter, and sandy lands in the spring. 
