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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, February 9, 1858. 
j over the coals, for merely saying of two nurserymen, 
that both of them came into this world with silver 
spoons in their mouths, because one of the spoons was 
deeper than the other spoon, and could take up more 
| of the porridge. 
But about the newest plant. It is one of Linden’s 
! new imports from the highlands of Colombia, and, 
therefore, a warm greenhouse plant, according to the 
lecturer; but 50° of heat are about the right tem¬ 
perature in winter. The name is Monochadmn ensi- 
ferum, by De Candolle ; and Arthrostemma , of Pavon. 
A Melastomad, belonging to the Osbeckia section of 
the Order. It is a small-leaved bush, with soft-wooded 
branches, and blooms very freely. The flowers are 
middle-sized, for that section, and of a most beauti¬ 
fully bright deep rosy colour, with sword - shaped, 
! crimson - coloured processes on the stamens, which 
deepen the shade of the flowers, and render them 
very brilliant. The name ensiferum is derived from 
these appendages on the stamens. 
From the same firm came a large pot-plant of Cy¬ 
clamen Atkinsii, a cross intermediate between the 
hardy Cyclamen coum, and the tender Persicum. The 
leaves and habit after coum; and the colour more after 
Persicum, but with the hardy constitution of coum. 
Also, two plants of fine Carnation-striped Camellias, 
called Targioni. 
Mr. Cutbush, of Highgate, sent a dozen of his best, 
forced Hyacinths, single and double— Prince Albert, 
the darkest, and William the First, a bluish dark 
purple single flower, which I have not seen before; 
Paun Van Tuyll, fine, deep, single blue; Grand 
Vidette, a very large and strong pale blue, single; 
Orondates , a shade of deeper blue than the last; 
Tour dl Auvergne, the best double white; Nonna, a 
single peach blush; and Mrs. Needier Stoioe, the 
j finest scarlet, with lighter shades. The value of such 
collections was represented, in the lecture, to be, that 
those who saw them, or heard the names, could safely 
trust to them as the best kinds, for them, to force 
another year. 
Mr. Glendenning, of the Chiswick Nursery, sent 
two kinds of Camellias, which Mr. Fortune brought 
home from China. These, I believe, are the imported 
plants, which tell that the Chinese work their Camellias 
j just like the French and Germans, and as we have done 
for the last twenty or twenty-five years—that is, graft 
1 single buds with a slice of the wood. One of them is 
very much like Albertus, in the flower, and is named 
Princess William of Prussia. The other is a large 
cupped white llower, with a tinge of blush', “ which 
has a tendency to come in crimson stripes.” This is 
named Cup of Beauty. 
The Messrs. Jackson and Son, of Kingston, sent a 
collection of fine plants in bloom. A ground Orchid, 
from India, with the rarest colour of the race, between 
cream and orange, and called Calanthe curculigoides ; 
also, Pendrobium monoliforme, from Java, or Japan, 
but why it was called moniliforme (neckless-shape), I 
never heard till then. When the plant was introduced, 
the joints of the stems were so reduced at each end, 
by drying on the passage, as to look like oblong beads, 
narrowing at each end : hence the fanciful name. In 
cultivation, however, the name is inapplicable; the 
shoots are always full and fresh-like, and the whole 
plant looks much like Pendrobium nobile. They 
showed, also, two large double Chinese Primroses, the 
double white, and double pink, each from twenty 
inches to two feet across ; and two kinds of Epacris, 
Atleeana, and Impressa alba. 
j Mr. Chandler, of the Vauxhall Nursery, sent three 
kinds of excellent Camellias. Saccooi Nova, an Italian 
j seedling, is the best of them ever raised beyond the 
i Alps. We heard of it first from Germany, in 1836 
or 1837; and between that and 1840, it was the lion of 
their novelties in London. It is of a rosy colour, and 
is as closely imbricated as if it were made in a mould. 
Messrs. Chandler’s next Camellia was an immense 
large dark crimson flower, called Mathoteana, named 
after M. Mathote, a continental amateur of the family. 
This a noble Camellia, when well done; its only fault 
is, that it is a rambling grower, and, therefore, better 
for training against a back wall, than as a bnsh or 
standard, in the bed of a Camellia house. Messrs. 
Chandler’s third Camellia was Jubilee, a small, white, 
and Carnation-striped kind, which is one of the best 
pot plants among them. 
There was a collection of Camellias from E. A. 
Brand, Esq., Turnham Green. A tall standard red of 
the Waratah breed; a Lady Hume's Blush, with 
most of the flowers hexangular. One of them in the 
Experimental Garden has every other flower in this 
angular condition. Imbricata, with the first flowers 
regularly variegated Woodsii, a most difficult kind 
to open well; another Mathoteana and a Marchioness 
of Exeter, a noble rosy bloom, and a most excellently- 
habited plant. 
There was a considerable collection from the garden 
of the Society. Fine Peutzia gracilis; Er anthem wn pul - 
chellum ; Acacia lophantha ; a half-shrubby Gesnera- 
looking plant called Sciodocalyx Warscewiezii; the 
large kind of Mignonette, much the best for winter; 
several Epacrises ; many small pot plants of Chinese 
Primroses ; a fine dwarf plant of Berberis Nepaulensis, 
coming into bloom, with flow r ers like deep orange 
tassels ; and we were told that the kindred Berberis, 
from Japan and China, had much paler flowers ; also, 
that all this breed of the family require shaded situa¬ 
tions from the sun—such as one would choose to bring 
out the beauties of the old Aucuba Japonica. There¬ 
fore, make a special memorandum of this ; and when 
you buy Berberis Japonica, Nepaulensis, tr if urea, 
Bealiana, and intermedia, or any other large-leaved 
Berberis from the East, recollect and plant them out 
in the deepest recesses of the wilderness, or under 
huge trees, whose shade and shelter will alike save 
them from the sun by day, and the frost by night. 
Let neither the sun, nor the moon, nor any of the 
stars, blink upon your eastern evergreen Berberis ; and 
let all your Aucubas be banished from the light, or 
from much of it; and all these plants will shine and 
glitter, grow, bloom, and ripen seed, as none of their 
family has ever done before in these islands. 
Fruit. —Best-keeping Pears by the score or dozen. 
Which is the best February Pear after all P Is there 
a better than the Ne Plus Meuris (Ne Pin Muri)? 
Perhaps not: but is there a more ugly-looking one 
amongst all the fruit? No, certainly not. Well, we 
had full two dozen of it from one grower, Mr. Tillyard, 
gardener to the late Speaker, now "Lord Eversley. Also, 
as many Beurre Pance, of the finest sample ; also, 
Black Hamburgh Grapes, not well coloured, and a 
fine dish of White Walnut-leaved Potatoes, and a 
similar dish of the Purple variety of the same. 
Mr. Hill, from Keele Hall, Staffordshire, the re¬ 
sidence of R. Sneyd, Esq., sent the finest preserved 
Muscats of Alexandria we had ever seen—a large 
basket of them ; also, Black Hamburghs equally good; 
and the true Tokay, looking far more fresh and plump 
than the others. But the Barbarossa , medium-sized 
bunches, were as fresh-looking, and as full of bloom 
as if they were new Grapes. They were sent from 
Escrick Hall, Yorkshire, by Mr. Mitchel, gardener 
to Lord Wenloek. Mr. Tillyard sent also two match 
fruit of the Antigua Queen Pine, without giving the 
weight; also, a dish of American Cranberries; and 
there were a brace of Cucumbers, from the Society, a 
useful-looking winter kind, called Lady Antrobus, and 
