THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION, December 0, 1856. 163 
the library of the Horticultural Society; aud it strikes 
me that if this name was at all authentic it could not 
have escaped tire eagle eye of the author of that book; 
therefore, although a reporter might give the name as it 
stands, a reviewer ought certainly to look more under 
the surface, and not pass over things so easily, and for 
I the present I put it down as a nondescript, but a fine 
I plant; aud the best is Rhodolina Championi, a fine ever- 
{ green plant from the Camellia districts in China. It 
| has been here since 1850, and is to be seen in every 
' good collection ; but no one knows how to bloom it, or 
' if it has come to a flowering age yet, the plants being 
all from seedlings. Every one tells you that it is like a 
Camellia, and requires the same treatment, and that 
seems to me a bar to its right management. It is not 
like a Camellia more than Gloire de Rosamene Rose is 
1 like one, and its nature is as wide from that of a 
Camellia as the poles are asunder. It is of the 
Witch Hazel tribe (Hamamelidaceee); there are no 
petals to the flower; the guard-calyx is a double invo¬ 
lucre, the inner one being as fine a rose colour as any of 
the Roses. In size and shape it is much like a single 
Camellia, but the nature is quite different; and may 
not that be a hinderance to its flowering? I think it 
makes all the difference, and that the plant must be 
treated very differently before we know the right way of 
flowering it. February is the time it blooms in the 
south of China; therefore it must be one of those plants 
which form their flower-buds the previous autumn; 
and, like many of that class, the over-excitement of 
high summer growth may run the flower-buds into wood- 
buds, as often happens with Chinese Azaleas and many of 
our own hybrid Rhododendrons. If these were not checked 
at the proper moment, we all know how prone they are 
to make a second growth, which does away with the 
flowering next spring. I am very firm in the opinion 
that that is the way with this plant; people believe 
that it is like a Camellia in nature as it is in looks. That 
not being the case, however, it is as likely as not that we 
overdo it by too much summer growth ; and I would 
advise a change of system, say to watch it about the 
end of May, or early in June, when the first growth is 
nearly finished; then to prevent a Midsummer growth 
by turning it out of doors fully exposed, and to keep it 
short of water till the end of August. There is no ques¬ 
tion but the plant is as hardy as the double white 
Camellia, for it was found growing with wild Camellias 
by Captain Champion, after whom it is named. It would 
most probably graft on the old Witch Hazel of Virginia, 
Hamamelis Virginica, an old and much-neglected hardy 
shrub; and if so, that may be another means of getting 
it sooner into bloom. At all events, these or similar 
modes ought to be tried with it, for it is really a fine 
thing, and, no doubt, might be had in bloom here all 
the winter, like the Camellia. The Camellia-house 
ought to be the right place for it after it is up to a good 
size, if not from the seed-leaf; and the stove will be the 
very last place to bring it into flower. 
D. Beaton. 
PLANTS THAT MAY BE IN BLOOM IN 
OCTOBER. 
GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
Adesmia viscosa; Arctotis decumbens; Balsamina 
latifolia, latifolia alba; Balsams, garden; Bauera 
latifolia; Blandfordia intermedia; Browallia, various; 
Brugmansias ; Chironia linoides; Calceolarias, shrubby 
kinds ; Drimia altissima; Disporum fulvum ; Dumasia 
pubescens; Dyckia altissima; Echeveria coccinea and 
grandiflora; Erica pulchella, cerinthoides, acuminata, 
aurea, exsurgens carnea, exsurgens major, exsurgens 
grandiflora, vestita coccinea, sulphurea, pulverulenta, 
pyramidalis, and most of those of last month; Fuchsias, 
many; Ilabranthus Bagnoldi and pumilus; Ha- 
broth amnus elegans ; Hindsia longiflora; Leonotis 
leonurus ; Lightfootia subulata ; Leucocoryne odo- 
rata ; Malva campanuloides ; Manulea viscosa ; Me- 
sembryanthemum serrulatum, minutum, surrectum, 
tigrinum, and taurinum ; Nerine Sarniensis; Othonna 
virginea; Oxalis ambigua, carnosa, Bowiei, cruenta, 
hirta, macrostylis, pectinata, and purpurea; Passiflora 
Colvillii, cserulea, and racemosa caerulea ; Pelargoniums, 
of Unique and Nosegay varieties; Roella spicata; 
Salvia splendens; Statice Halfordii, &c.; Solanum 
Tweedianum, vestitum, and jasminoides; Stenochilus vis- 
cosus; Tacsonia mollissima; Thea Bohea ; Volkameria 
aculeata; Westringia triphylla; Witsenia corymbosa; 
Xanthoxylon piperitum ; Zygophyllum album, cordi- 
folium, and maculatum. 
STOVE PLANTS. 
iEchmea fulgens; Ardisia acuminata; Allamanda 
neriifolia; Abroma fastuosa; Aganosma caryophyl- 
loides and Roxburghii; Aspidistra elatior; Begonia 
nitida, parvifolia, fuchsioides, &c.; Billbergia purpu¬ 
rea; Bromelia bracteata; Centroclinium reflex urn ; Cle- 
rodendrum8; Clitoria Mexicana; Crinum humile and 
insigne; Cypripedium venustum; Dichorisandra thyr- 
siflora; Duranta Plumieri; Echeveria racemosa; Eu¬ 
phorbia Bojeri; Gesnera zebrina, elongata, Gerardiana, 
and sceptrum igneum; Gloxinias; Hamiltonia suavoo- 
lens; Ipomsea grandiflora; Justioia speciosa and flavi- 
coma ; Malvaviscus pilosus ; Melastoma sanguinea ; 
Niphaea rubra; Oldenlandias; Passiflora alata, prin- 
ceps, &c. ; Pilumna laxa; Pleroma Benthamiana; 
Ruellia formosa ; Siphocampylos macrostemma ; Taber- 
nsemontana odorata ; Teucrium inflatum; Thunbergias, 
of sorts; Torenia Asiatica; Stapelia anguina; Tilland- 
sia nitida; Tradescantia zebrina; Vernonia fruticosa, 
linearis, and odoratissima ; Vriesia glaucophylla ; Whit- 
fieldia lateritia; Xiphidium giganteum ; Xylophylla 
speciosa; Zygophyllum cordifolium. 
For general remarks, as applicable to small houses, 
see p. 128. Plant-houses hardly ever look better than 
during September and the first three weeks of October. 
If climbers are allowed to grow freely, such as the Passion¬ 
flowers, &c., they themselves would make a house look 
beautiful and interesting, with a few other plants, where 
j there are openings and sunlight for them. Balsams, 
from seed sown in a cold frame or pit towards the end 
of May, and grown on with abundance of air, make a fine 
show in a cool greenhouse in the beginning of this 
j month, and make less litter than at other times, from 
seeding less easily. Neat little plants of spring-struck 
Fuchsias are just in their element; and what could 
yield a prettier blue and white than bushy plants of the 
Browallia, from seed sown in a slight hotbed in April ? 
For yellows and browns nothing could exceed masses of 
shrubby Calceolarias, that were either grown in pots, or, 
better still, planted out in a border at the end of May, 
and raised towards the end of September, every flower 
being removed until the middle of August. Unless the 
house is kept cool and airy, Heaths and Epacrises 
will be best in airy, cold pits until the middle of the 
month, aud even until the end of it, and the first part 
of November, if the Chinese Chrysanthemums are to be 
introduced in great numbers. 
Unique Geraniums, and Scarlets, and all of the Nose¬ 
gay kinds, will just be in their element, if grown on 
during the summer, and the flower-bud3 removed until 
August. Salvia splendens will also be in fine trim from 
cuttings struck in April, and either grown on in pots or 
planted out in June, and raised carefully and potted in 
September. 
If the greenhouse is kept at all warm and close, 
Gesneras, Begonias, and Clerodendrums will just be at 
