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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[July 24. 
Society should carry out their system of management 
for pot culture, by having fruit shown in pots or tubs. 
Those who have seen the dwarf cherry trees that used to 
he grown in pots at Hampton Court, and know what is to be 
done with various fruit trees, will acknowledge that the 
market-looking assemblage of fruit at horticultural shows 
is so inferior as to inspire disgust. Let the pine be shown 
on its plant, foroed fruit on their trees, grapes on their 
vines, and strawberries in pots. Skill would be then fairly 
represented; and as to the effect, it will not bear a com¬ 
parison. E. Y. 
NEW PLANTS. 
THEIR PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES. 
Hairy Didymocarp (Didymocarpus crinita).—Botanical 
Magazine, t. 4554.—This genus belongs to a large 
group of plants (Cyrtandraceie) -which inhabit many 
parts of the world, but chiefly India and the Eastern 
Archipelago. For a long time they were regarded as 
a natural group, distinct from all others; hut Dr. Brown 
united them to Oesnencorts, of which they now form a 
section, distinguished chiefly by their double revolute 
or twisted seed-cords (placentae), a conformation which 
is well explained by the name of the genus Streptocarpus, 
which name signifles a twisted pod, and also by this, 
which furnishes the subject of our present biography, 
Didymocarpus, from didymos, double or twin, and carpos, 
a fruit or seed-pod, a name to which some objections 
have been made on account of its not expressing the real 
state of the seed-vessel; which is not double, but having 
double placentae, like the rest of the families in this 
section of Gesnerworts. The name originated with 
Dr. Wallieli. Its nearest affinity is with Cliirita, and, 
in the Linnaean system, it belongs to the second order 
of the fourth class —Didynamia Angiospermia. It is a 
native of Pulo Penang ; has been in cultivation here for 
five or six years, and, like many more of the low herba¬ 
ceous Gesnerworts, this and other Didymocarps is highly 
to be commended to the attention of the amateur of 
small means, and who can only secure head-room for a 
select few in his moist stove. 
It is not only a native of Pulo Penang, but of the neigh¬ 
bouring district of Singapore, whence it was sent by Mr. Lobb 
to Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, and exhibited by them in 1847. 
Stem about nine inches high, shaggy, with purplish hairs; 
leaves opposite, shaped like those of the Primrose, toothed, 
dark, rich velvety-green above, purplish carmine, and 
penni-nerved beneath; flowers on stalks shorter than the 
leaves, corolla shaped somewhat like that of Acliimenes, but 
with tube much larger in proportion to the lip, creamy-white, 
with yellow within the tube ; calyx, four segmented, red- 
tipped ; two of the stamens sterile. 
Smooth-flowered Bouvard (Bouvardia leiantha ).— 
Gardener's Magazine of Botany, ii. 97.—This genus was 
named in commemoration of Dr. Charles Bouvard, at 
one time superintendant of the Royal Gardens at Paris. 
The species, with but two exceptions, are scarlet-flowered, 
and all being natives of the temperate regions of South 
America, bear very well to be plunged in our borders 
during the summer, but require to be returned into the 
greenhouse early in September. They ought to be more 
cultivated, for when grouped together they look very 
rich, and bloom from July until the end of October. 
Bouvardia belongs to the Natural Order of Cinchonads, 
and to 4 -Tetrandria lMonogynia of the Linmean 
system. 
Bouvardia leiantha is a native of Guatemala, and bloomed 
for the first time in this country at Mr. Salter’s nursery, at 
Hammersmith, during the summer of 1850. Stem nearly 
three feet high, erect, robust, downy, branches terminating 
in very compound three-branclileted cymes of flowers ; leaves 
in threes, embracing the stem, dark green, pointed egg- 
shaped, wrinkled, and white-haired on both sides ; flowers 
with long tubed, 4-cornered, crimson corollas, with their 
mouth or limb divided into four triangular lobes ; style with 
a two-forked stigma. It is easily propagated both by cut¬ 
tings of the young shoots and of the roots. 
Three-coloured Vanda (Vanda tricolor).—Paxtons 
Flower Garden, ii. 19.—This stove orchid will be found 
noticed, and full directions given for the culture of the 
genus, at p. 254 of our fourth volume. A more un¬ 
meaning name than Vanda could not be devised. It is 
the Sanscrit name for one of the species in India, 
Sanscrit being a dead language used only among the 
Brahmins in their writings. As Lavoisier reformed the 
nomenclature of chemistry, so do we hope some botanical 
