Plate 187 . 
COCCOSYPSILON DISCOLOR* 
It is our province not merely to figure and describe such 
flowers as are new and popular, but also to endeavour to rescue 
from oblivion and to make popular those which though they 
may have been for a long while introduced into our gardens, 
are not as well known as we consider they ought to be; for it 
is surely unwise to cultivate worthless things because they are 
new, and reject valuable ones because they are old. 
Amongst the flowers now adopted for the ornamentation of 
the conservatory, etc., hanging baskets (first introduced by the 
Crystal Palace Company, under Sir Joseph Paxton’s guidance) 
are now become very much in vogue; and we were particularly 
struck, both at the Bishop of Winchester’s and Lady Dorothy 
Neville’s, with one filled with the plant which we now figure; 
and as we believe it to be comparatively unknown, we have 
thought it w r ell to give a figure of it in that condition in which 
it is most attractive, viz. when producing its exceedingly bril¬ 
liant ultramarine berries, which it does in profusion during the 
autumn and winter months. And as it was so successfully 
grown at Farnham Castle, we have been supplied, through the 
kindness of the Bishop of Winchester, with the following di¬ 
rections as to its cultivation by Mr. Lawrence, his Lordship’s 
intelligent gardener:— 
“ It is,” writes Mr. Lawrence, “ as most of our most beautiful 
things are, very easily cultivated. I find from experience that 
during the summer months it will do better in a close green¬ 
house, near the glass, and fully exposed to the light and sun’s 
rays than in a stove, as might be supposed from its being a 
* Syn. repens. 
