July 27. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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sport from seeds, and grows much closer and with 
smaller leaves than Oephalotaxus Fortuni, besides being 
a drooping plant. Every sport which appears in all 
Conifers is eagerly multiplied in the nurseries, aud as 
eagerly sought after by collectors of them to satisfy the 
public taste. 
Gaultheria organensis, a round leaved species, men¬ 
tioned by the lamented Gardiner, in his Brazilian 
Journal, as growing on the very summit of the Organ 
Mountains. A promising evergreen from Chili, like 
some Pernettya. A long willow-leaved plant from the 
north of India, looking like some Euphorbia. A new 
Saxgotliea, called gracilis, from Patagonia aud Valdinia, 
with much smaller leaves and of a closer growth than 
Saxgotliea eonspima, is supposed to be quite hardy. 
Two strong Ferns ( Lomaria ) from Chili, and two new 
wild Calceolarias from the same country, one of them, 
called ericoides, L would rather take to be A Iona ccelestis, 
from the same quarter. The other is called hysopifoUa ; a 
shrubby kind. Neither of them have yet flowered. Borne 
line evergreen Berberis, of which one called concinna 
is new since 1 gave a descriptive list of the evergreen 
ones in these pages. They were Japonica, Bealii, inter¬ 
media, trifarea, aud concinna, and all these will be found 
in the index to the last volume; concinna is as like 
Darivini as can be, except the underside of the leaves, 
which are silvery white. Mr. Veitch sent only three 
new plauts to the Regent’s Park Show, Ixora Lobbi, a 
line species in the way ot ' Javanica; his large specimen of 
Veronica variegata, aud a species of Cgcnoclies, with two 
long drooping spikes, full of greenish-yellow flowers, 
not worthy of the family name, except to those who 
register the genealogies of air plants. But at Chiswick 
he, the said Mr. Veitch, overwhelmed me with new and 
old, young and handsome, to the tune of full three 
hundred plants in all, aud the moment he had them 
staged, oil' he was, like the rest of them, to brush up for 
her Majesty. He had only one fault in all his things, 
aud that fault I tell all the world, as a punishment for 
not having had a single individual from him the whole 
day to tell me anything about the extra work. The 
large drawing of the Wellingtonia ought to have been 
up behind the plauts and specimens of wood, bark, and 
cones, which I mentioned last week; and this omission 
was pointed out to me by a lady, whose first acquaint¬ 
ance I made at the time. A large plant of Lomatia 
ferruginia, which is near, if not the very same plant as 
Embothrium ferruginium, and if so, it will be the most 
showy plant there that day, after Embothrium lanceo- 
latum, and Bejaria icstuans, the latter being the rarest 
thing in all Mr. Veitch’s varieties. This is a Peruvian 
Bejaria, with the growth and looks of a broad leaved 
Dryandria, or something that way. The flowers are 
nearly as large as those of a common Rhododendron, 
but not quite so open; they come in large heads at 
the ends of the branches, droop a little, and of a pale 
rose-colour, altogether a most charming flower, which 
puts one in mind of some of those untold gems in 
the genus Somalia. Bix plauts, in full bloom, of a 
now bedding annual from California, in 24-sized pots. 
The flowers are violet, or dark blue, in shape like a 
middle sized Campanula, with the stamens exerted, or 
ruuniug out beyond the edges of the bell like flowers; 
the growth of the plant is the same as that of Eutoca 
visciila, and the plant must belong to the same order, 
and come very near to Eutoca; but the genus is quite 
new, discovered by Harvey, and called Whitlaria. 
Another new hardy annual from California will soon 
become a great favourite in every flower-garden, is called 
Eschscholtzia tenuifolia. This is a smaller plant in all 
the parts than the older Eschscholtzias —of a more rigid 
and upright growth, aud the flowers are of a sulphur- 
yellow. It would make an excellent edging to a bed of 
the old Esckuholtzia, or a distinct bed by itself. A 
very showy new species of Escalonia, “ from the snow 
line of the Patagonian Andes,” will be quite hardy, and 
will look in the borders exactly like some of the light- 
blush seedlings of Epacris. This was a small plant, 
but it was literally smothered with flowers, just like an 
Epacris. A new Ceropegia, from the east, I believe, 
with greenish flowers, a strong stove climber trained 
round sticks. Two plauts of a hardy Patagonian 
Myrtle, with flowers like our own Myrtles, and the leaf 1 
not unlike that of Vaccinium ovatum ; and cut-flowers 
of a very gay Dipladenia, near to Crassinoda. All these j 
stood by the Welding tonia, and were supported by the 
very best pot Ferns, in specimen plants, just as Ferns 
ought to be exhibited and grown for private use, and all 
from Mr. Veitch. 
The selection and size of the plants were on this 
wise. Adiantwm Braziliensis, four feet in diameter, aud 
twenty inches high; A.trapeziforme, ditto; A pentadac- 
tylon, four feet by three feet; A. pubescens, four feet 
through, aud one high ; A. formosum, four feet by three 
feet; A. cuneatum, three feet by two feet—this is the 
best of al 1 the Ferns for mixing iu nosegays, aud is 
largely grown in every good garden for that very pur¬ 
pose ; A. concinnum, two feet by one foot; Darea diver- 
sifolia, four feet by three feet; Blechnum coraovadensis, 
a splendid Fern; Asplenium vuliravis, with broad shining 
leaves, more like a young Banana than an ordinary 
Fern. Then the gold aud silver Ferns ( Gymnogramma ), 
as thick, and close, aud high, as any of the Adianlums, 
or Maiden hair Ferns. After these, Mr. Veitch had 
another collection of Lycopodiums, in the same style of 
growth ; and a Pleroma elegans, five feet through—a 
perfect globe. 
Among the rare plants iu flower, from the Messrs. 
Rollinsou, the best was their Nidularia fulgens, a close- 
growing Bromelwort, throwing up crimson leaves iu the 
centre, round a flat head of blush lilac flowers. It is 
impossible to conceive anything more rich in colour 
than those crimsou leaves. 
A beautiful plant of AEcmea discolor with three stout, 
flowing stems. A new Pentas rosea, from Mr. Osborne, 
of Fulham nursery, just as the old Pentas, but iu the 
colour; Veronica alba marginata, from Mr. Salter, of 
Hammersmith; Abeliaunijlora, with white flowers, from 
the Messrs. Rollinsou ; Achimenes gigantea, from Mr. 
Henderson, of the Wellington Nursery, which will make 
a useful plant, being a monster size of picta, and very 
distinct; and his Gloxinia, Duke of Wellington, looked 
to me about the best of all the red ones. A white 
Burling tonia,, from Mr. Carsou, gardener to W. T. G. 
Farmer, Esq., had eighteen large flowers, with a yellow 
mark on the lip, was new to me. An Aerides-looking 
Orchid, from Mr. Carson, and called Ornithochilus stria- 
tulus, is not worth growing for show. A very pretty yellow 
Stylidium, from the Pine-Apple Place Nursery, callecf 
mucronifolium, I never saw before, and a kind of Fuschsia, 
variegated in the flowers, from the same collection, and 
called Souvenir de la Peine, and which I noticed at the 
Regent’s Park, is, indeed, one of the very prettiest of all 
the late seedlings. 
Relliania squarrosa, in a collection of tweuty stove and 
greenhouse plants, from the Messrs. Fraser, of Lea Bridge, 
is a Daisy, or composite yellow flower, as old as the hills, 
and as useful as a Polygala; but no one grows it save 
themselves for exhibition. They had also Burtonia 
conferta, which was a relief to my old eyes, to which 
most of the collections “large” and “small” are as 
familiar as the bridge of my nose. 
Mr. Carson was the only other competitor who broke 
in on the old dishes with a very old plant called Exos- 
ternma aquaticum, alias Posoqueria longiflora (a different 
thing). The growth is more like that of Franciscea 
uniflora, with larger and longer leaves and terminal 
heads of long-tubed white flowers—the exact miniature 
