January 16.J 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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was “ the church of my forefathers, and, I trust, of my 
children’s children.” 
Now, when our readers visit London in June next, for 
the purpose of being amazed and edified by “ The Exhi¬ 
bition of all Nations," we would recommend one day of 
mingled delight and profit to be secured by a visit to 
Mr. Rivers’s Sawbridgeworth Nurseries. If they will 
proceed by the Eastern Counties Railway to the Harlow 
Station, they will he within a pleasant walk of a mile 
Irom those nurseries, where they will see, among other 
things, all the host Roses and all the best Rears in full 
perfection, and cultivated upon the dwarfing system. 
I They will see his mode of protected trellis culture, and, 
pervading all, they will perceive a constant attention to 
demonstrate how everything may he effected most econo¬ 
mically. They will find, too, in Mr. Rivers, that spirit 
which, though justly proud of the sixty acres now under 
liis spades, yet retains, and is pleased to point out, the 
nook ot ground on which a grandfather began the humble 
foundation of the family’s prosperity. They will be 
enabled, at the same time, to forward the charity in 
question by buying on the spot a copy of The Orchard 
House. 
NEW PLANTS. 
THEIll PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES. 
Large Flower-headed Pimelea (Pimelea macro- 
cephaln).—Botanical Magazine, t. 4543.—This favourite 
genus of ornamental shrubs, abounding in New Hol¬ 
land, and now containing about fifty species, was named 
by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander, who first disco¬ 
vered P. linifolia, on which the genus was founded, when 
on Cook's circumnavigation voyage. The word is from 
pimele, fat, alluding to a viscid secretion of the plant; 
and macroceplialus means large head, referring to the 
terminal heads of flowers. 
The Natural Order under which Pimeleas are placed 
is that of Daplmads, founded on the Daphne (Tliyme- 
laceie); and having hut two stamens and one pistil they 
fall into Linnaeus’s 2-Dianclria \-Monogynia. 
Although this genus has long been a favourite one 
with cultivators, if we except P. rosea and the variety of 
it called Hendersonii, we shall find Pimelea spectdbilis 
engrossing the attention of competitors at our metro¬ 
politan exhibitions. How far the present subject of our 
biography may encroach on the province of the older 
favourites, is not within the jurisdiction of the chronicler 
to say; but, in passing, let us remark that young seed¬ 
lings, or plants a year or two old from spring cuttings of 
the old Pimelea decussata, are the best stocks to graft 
the weaker and more scarce species on ; and that such 
grafted plants are more easy to manage than if they were 
growing on their own root, and we believe they will live 
all the longer if so grafted; but those who have more 
acquaintance with spade and grafting tools than we can 
claim to, can best tell the tale. 
Pimelea macrocephala is a greeuhouse shrub, introduced 
by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter, direct from 
Swan River. It is about three feet high, branches erect, 
round, smooth, reddish underneath, green above, leaved 
quite up to the flowers. Leaves opposite, leaning to one 
side, stalkless, smooth, rather leathery, shaped like that of 
the willow, hut broader in proportion to the length, milky 
green. Involucre, or outer flower envelope, of four or six 
leaves, like those of the stem, but larger. Flowers many, 
crowded together, very pale pink. It thrives best in turfy 
peat, mixed with a little loam, and well drained. 
Smooth-leaved Spathodea (Spathodea laris). — Bota¬ 
nical Magazine, t. 4537. The derivation of this stove 
plant’s name is from Spathc, the flowers being terminal 
with a spatbaceous calyx. It belongs to the Natural 
