Plate 93. 
NEW STARRED CONVOLVULUS. 
Convolvulus cantabricus , stellcitus novus . 
The requirements of modem gardening are of a very ex¬ 
acting character. Not only must conservatories and parterres 
look gay, or forced flowers during the dull and wintry months 
add their beauty to the drawing-room or boudoir, but hanging 
baskets and vases must be filled with suitable plants, which 
shall not merely fill them, but trail over their sides, and so 
add elegance to their appearance, the introduction of the hang¬ 
ing baskets in the Crystal Palace having led to their very general 
adoption. 
The plant which we now figure, is one w T e think likely to be 
useful for this purpose. Last season, a Blue Convolvulus ( mauri - 
tanicus) was introduced by Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, of 
the Wellington Road Nursery, and figured by them in their 4 Il¬ 
lustrated Bouquetand we imagine that the present will be a 
fitting adjunct to it, as it possesses the same free flowering pro¬ 
perties and the same trailing habit. It has been introduced 
by Messrs. Barr and Sugden, of King^Street, Covent Garden, 
who received it from the gentleman who has been known for 
some time as the 44 Sardinian Correspondent ” of some of the 
London seedsmen, (albeit, since the cession of Savoy and Nice 
to France, he is now a French correspondent) ; living in the 
neighbourhood of Nice, in a climate admirably adapted for the 
saving of seed, he grows annuals very extensively, and, having 
had long experience in horticulture, he is continually hybri¬ 
dizing, and has thus obtained some valuable varieties. 
There are few persons, who have ever grown annuals, who 
have not grown some of the many varieties of Convolvulus; 
(one of the easiest of culture of the vast number of seeds usually 
presented to the consideration of the flower-loving public every 
year); and we have only to say of this new variety, that it is 
