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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
July 24. 
Oncidium pulvinatnm and flexuosum, and Epidendrinn 
leuchocJiilum. 
There was a fine specimen of Angrcecum caudatum, 
with two long spikes, without name of owner. An 
Epidendnm, new species, from Mr. Carson, with up- | 
right spikes of pale yellow flowers. Also the same 
Ornitliarium striatulum which he showed as a new j 
plant last season ; it is of no beauty, however. He had, j 
also, a fine specimen plant of Roupellia grata, a large 
stove climber, with bunches of light flowers, a Hoya j 
Leila, and a fine Dipladenia crassinoda. 
GLOXINIAS. 
The Messrs. Henderson, of Wellington Road Nur¬ 
series, and the Messrs. Rollison, showed a dozen 
hybrids each, chiefly of the upright sorts. The best of 
those from the Wellington Road Nursery were Princess 
of Prussia, Ernest de Tallyrand, Carthusiana, Alba 
aureaulata, Frances, and Violetta. 
The best from Tooting were Maria Paulownia, gran- 
dis Rex ignescens, Coronata, and Helen of Orleans, with a 
new hybrid Achimenes called Dr. Hoff; a light lilac, 
with a darker eye; and some others. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Mr. Ingram had his new cross from Achimenespicta, 
and four Kalo smithes, or Crassula, hybrids of the Miniata 
stamp, with different degrees of white in each. Mr. 
Wooly had six well-grown Gloxinias. M. Linden sent, 
from the Continent, but not in bloom, two kinds of 
Calatheas (not Calanthus), one called Pardina, meaning 
that it is marked with broad spots like a panther— 
these are two black rows of markings, one on each side 
the midrib. This will make a good addition to the 
variegated plants. The second Calathea is called Meta - 
lica, having a shining lip, with two shades of green; 
and a fine-looking Melastomad, called Calyptraria 
hcemantlia. This is by far the best plant that was shown 
at Chiswick for the last twenty years ; it was only 
six inches high, and had four pairs of leaves. As far as 
I could see, nobody took any notice of it all that day; 
and were it not for The Cottage Gardener, M. Linden, 
of Brussels, who sent it over as a gem of the first water, 
would gain nothing for his trouble. But I pledge my 
word that this Calyptraria hcemantlia is the newest 
name among Melastomads, and the best stove or mode¬ 
rate stove plant that ever was exhibited, not only in 
England, but in any part of Europe, not forgetting 
Amherstia nobilis and Medmilla magnifica. In all likeli¬ 
hood, it will come from cuttings as freely as a Scarlet 
Geranium, and about as easy to grow' into a good speci¬ 
men as a new Fuchsia. This plant exemplifies the 
difference in taste between us and our next door 
neighbours across the channel. Anywhere abroad, such | 
a plant as this would have received the first gold medal; 
in England, the Judges passed over it without giving the | 
slightest heed to it, and gave good medals to most 
trumpery things— new plants, I mean—on each side of 
it, because they were in flower. Verily, if public taste 
wants refinement in this country, public and private 
judgment amongst us wants a good deal of pricking 
from behind the garden-gate. But in all this I blame j 
no one. I know that Dr. Lindley has said that this is 
“ one of the most glorious of plants,” and that the 
Horticultural Society believe every word ho says about 
plants, therefore, public taste is the only thing which 
is at fault in these matters; why, therefore, would the 
Society fight against this taste with a low exchequer? 
As I have said above, I shall not lose sight of Calyp¬ 
traria hcemantlia until it is as common in our stoves as 
the Franciscas. 
Another excellent new plant was a dwarf, close, bushy 
Ixora, called jloribimda, from Java, by Mr. Yeitch. 
Here, again, I predict that this Ixora will become a 
universal favourite with amateurs, on account of its 
dwarf, compact habit, and for uniting in one head of 
bloom the “ properties ” of Ixora coccinea and crocata. 
There were six pots of a new annual from Mr. Veitcli, 
and from California, called Fenzlia dianthiflora. This 
is a little darling, for which many of us old gardeners 
have been anxiously looking lor the last twenty years. 
There was a private revolution here, in England, in the 
summer of 1833, which was “ put down ” by Mr. Ben- 
tham, in October of that year. He told us then that 
there was an amiable author, then publishing in Vienna, 
called Dr. Fenzl, and that a charming little annual, of 
which he had dried specimens from Mr. Douglas, was a 
fit and proper plant to represent the modest virtues of 
the German Doctor; that the flowers of this little 
charmer were the prettiest of all the Gileadads, as Sandy 
McPharlan would say; and that, for more security, he, 
the said Mr. Bentham, would place Dr, Fenzl’s name¬ 
sake just between Gilea and Leptosiphon, where it stands 
to this day. It is only a few inches high, and does not 
open its pretty delicate blossoms when it rains. You 
must pronounce it by putting the accent on the e, and 
sounding z like s — Feuslea. 
Mr. Yeitch had another new plant, from “ Vogel 
River,” in Africa, as the tally said; but they might just 
as well have said Spalding River, in Europe. This was 
a dull Pentstemon-looking blossom, on a plant of some 
Siphocampylus. It is closely related to the Pentstemons, 
and is called Phygelius Capensis, and will, probably, 
grow in the open borders in summer. 
The charming new tree Phlox ( Leptodacliylon CaUfor- 
nicum), the Phlox speciosum of Pursh, was there again, 
from Mr. Veitcli, and more full of flowers than it w r as 
in June. It is also likely to hold on some time yet, 
therefore, if it should not make a bed for the whole 
season, it will last long enough to make it worthy of 
the very best flower in the garden of a Queen or 
Empress: it is a lovely thiug to look at. He had, also, 
a new pinkish Lupin, from California, of the Poly- 
phyllus class. 
Mr. Anderson, the great cross-breeder, near Edin¬ 
burgh, sent three new botanical plants of no garden 
interest; two kinds of Gilias, and a kind of Salvia-like 
thiug; but none of them were like the types of Gilia or 
Salvia, 
The new Princess Royal Rhododendron was also there, 
from Mr. Veitcli, and fully as good as it was in June. 
Hemiandra pungens, from the Messrs. Henderson, of 
the Wellington Road Nursery, is not an old plant, and 
is another of those lady-like plants which you cannot 
help admiring. It is a dwarf, greenhouse species, with 
lilac flowers, and was sold three or four years by, I 
think, the Messrs. Frazer; at any rate, it is a very nice 
thing, as also another plant from the same firm, called 
Stoleclium scandens. This has a crowd of bright-pink 
flowers, which put you in mind of Oxalis rosea, which 
Oxalis, by-the-by, is a most excellent summer annual 
for the cold show house, if the seeds are sown in heat 
early in March, and the plants have a few short sticks 
to run about on. 
There was a new cross-breeder with a collection of 
Variegated Geraniums, Mr. Barter, gardener to T. 
Lenox, Esq., Chiswick. I believe they were of three 
strains, but being not in bloom, who can decide their 
merits? However, Mr. Barter had a prize for them. 
Mr. Gains had three good specimen plants of his Varie¬ 
gated Attraction, and three of Flower of the Day, in a 
collection, in very good order indeed; but the Attraction 
Geranium from the Messrs. Lee is a very different thing. 
Mrs. Conway, of Earl’s Court, Broiupton, had a more 
varied collection of these beautiful Variegated Gera¬ 
niums, in which was the best specimen of the Golden 
Chain, in Europe, as far as I know. Also, Flower of the 
Day, Mountain of Light, Lee's Attraction, Silver-striped 
