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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
July l-i- 
the interioralso, Southern Guiana and the Mascaren 
Islands. Martius describes them as perennial Lilies, 
“ with their trunks closely covered by the withered re¬ 
mains of leaves, branching by forks (dichotomous), and 
bearing at their points tufts of leaves in the manner of a 
Yucca or Draccena; some of them are from two to ten 
feet high, with a trunk sometimes as thick as a man’s 
body.” These Vellozias, with the Barbacenias, form a 
distinct section of Blood Boots (Hsemodoracese). Vel- 
lozia Candida might easily be had within two miles of 
the town of Bio; it grows on the steep sides of “ a small 
promontory, called Morro-do-Flamingo, that juts into 
the bay about two miles south of Bio.” The flowers of 
Vdlozia Candida are not unlike our white Lily (Lilinm 
candidum); plants of it have been raised from seeds, 
both in Dublin and in Glasgow; but surely some of the 
old plants on this promontory might be taken up and 
sent over to England without any very great risk; at 
any rate, there it is next to our door, where our vessels 
pass and repass every month in the year. Ten years 
ago it was thought next to impossible to introduce, or 
even cultivate, the great Indian Lily ( Lilinm Giganteinn), 
but now Mr. Veitch has it up to the mark as easily as 
any of the other Lilies ; and so it will be some day or 
other with these extremely curious tree Lilies from 
Brazil. It is only a question of time and perseverance. 
Again, Mr. Gardiner highly recommends the following 
plants from the Organ Mountains, where they grow at 
such an elevation as to entitle them to be considered 
greenhouse plants, if even not more hardy. There is 
really very little difficulty in reaching the Organs from 
Bio; they are only about sixty miles to the north of it, 
and one-third of the distance is by water up the bay, 
and this is a common high-way every day in the year to 
bring down the country produce to the market at Rio. j 
Air. March, an English gentleman, of whom all who 
reach him speak in the highest terms, has a large farm 
up half-way the Organ Mountains, whence he sends 
fruit and vegetables, and, probably, butter and eggs, 
every week to Bio; at this farm, the thermometer falls 
to the freezing point, and never rises higher than it 
does in England. Then, when we consider that all the 
following plants inhabit a zone of from two to three j 
thousand feet higher than the farm-house of Air. Alarcb, 
we need not fear much about the half-hardiness of these i 
plants, or about any very great difficulty in getting I 
them down to the farm, and hence to Rio, along with j 
the cabbages and other vegetables, in market-carts and j 
boats, and once at Bio, they ought to be as safe as if 
they were at Liverpool or Southampton. 
1 and 2. Prepusa connata and Hoolceriana. — The 
genus is by Alavtius, and the two species were named 
by Gardiner himself, and he sent them both alive to | 
England, but they did not get over the fatigue of the l 
journey, and they both died. “They are both beautiful ! 
plants, belonging to the natural order of Gentians. ! 
They will only succeed in the greenhouse in a peaty 
soil, kept moist, but at the same time well-drained.” 
Prepusa Hoolceriana is figured in the “Botanical Alaga- 
zine;” it is an herbaceous plant of the first water, and 
connata is “a magnificent, somewhat-shrubby plant.” 
8. Salvia Benthamiana. —A very handsome, scarlet- 
flowered species : “ a fine shrub, about three feet high.” 
4. Salvia rivularis. —“ Somewhat shrubby, and about 
four feet high. Flowers large and scarlet.” 
5. Escalonia Organensis. —“A very handsome shrub, 
about four feet high, producing dense panicles of rose- 
coloured flowers.” 
0. Boumannia verbascifolia. — “A fine herbaceous 
plant, about four feet high, with a large, loose panicle 
of orange flowers, belonging to the Mutisia group of 
Composites.” 
7. Lavomera imbricata. —“ This is one of the beau¬ 
tiful Alelastomaceous shrubs, with small leaves and 
large flowers, which are so common in the gold and 
diamond districts of Brazil; it grows in a moist, peaty 
soil.” And 
8. Sipliocampylos duploserratus. —“A fine, subscan- 
dent species, with large flowers ” 
The following plants are less hardy than the above, 
growing lower down :— 
9. Naposantlius Braziliensis. —“ A fine, little, suffru- j 
ticose plant, belonging to the Cyrtandreous division ot 
Gesnerads. In appearance, it is not unlike a Strepto- 
carpus. 
10. Citrosma obovata. —“A small shrub, worthy of 
being introduced, not only as a botanical curiosity, but 
for the rich lemon odour of all its parts.” 
11. Ta l a u m a fra gran tiss im a .—“A fine large tree, be¬ 
longing to the Natural Order of Alagnoliads, The 
, flowers are large, pale yellow, and powerfully odori- 
! ferous. A single tree may be discovered by the sense 
of smell alone at a distance of more than half a mile, 
when the wind blows in a direction from it.” It is one 
of the most striking trees Air. Gardiner ever met with. 
1 It grows naturally in moist, swampy places, and not 
unfrequently flowers when not more than ten or twelve 
feet high. 
12. Passiflora speciosa. —“ A climber, with large scar¬ 
let flowers from four to six inches in diameter.” This 
last, of itself, would pay for a journey from London to 
the very spot where it grows, taking it as a market spe¬ 
culation ; and there are hundreds of clever young gar¬ 
deners here who would jump at an offer of a run to Bio 
de Janeiro, remain there at head-quarters for nine or 
twelve months, and scour the country for miles along 
the coast, on both sides of the bay, and up through the 
whole of the Organ Mountains; and there are just as 
many half-hardy Pleromas on that same range, as would 
pay for the whole journey, plants, seeds, and all back to 
Loudon, to say nothing of Pignoniads, the finest climbers 
on the face of the earth, purple and violet-flowered 
Alamandas , with Ferns, Cinchonads, Composites, Myrtle- 
blooms, Orchids, and a thousand besides, and all of the 
most beautiful descriptions; but it is of no use to run 
across the country once or so for them as if the whole 
camp at Chobham w 7 as running after you. Nothing 
but a year’s rumbling is worth speaking of; and I would 
invest a few hundreds in the speculation sooner even 
than in shares in the Crystal Palace itself. 
D. Beaton. 
OBNAAIENTING ECONOAIICALLY A 
NEGLECTED GREENHOUSE. 
{Continued from }>oge 222.) 
Campanula pyeamidai.is. —Those who have a taste 
for the beautiful can scarcely visit any of our great 
Flower Shows without being alike gratified and bettered. 
The authoress of the “ Wide, Wide World,” spoke both j 
j eloquently and truly when she makes her hero say, j 
“ a bunch of flowers seems to bring me very near the j 
Hand that made them. They are the work of His fingers, 1 
and I cannot consider them without being joyfully as- , 
sured of the glory and the loveliness of their Creator. | 
It is written as plainly to me in their delicate painting, 
and sweet breath, and curious structure, as in the very ; 
pages of the Bible,” &c. I have heard expressions simi¬ 
lar to these breathed by many as they looked at and 
admired that noble novelty, the Lilium giganteinn. 
There is certainly something very striking in its ap¬ 
pearance, sending up a strong, tall, conical stem, with 
its large flowers coming out near the extremity of the 
pointed cone, bloom there taking the place of foliage 
below; this very habit fitting it peculiarly for orna¬ 
menting greenhouses, more esjiecially wherever it is 
