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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, May 22, 1860. 
present^ said, ‘ Give the sylph a butterfly’s wing, and then you 
hare it.’ ‘ That I will,’ exclaimed Stothard ; ‘ and, to be correct, 
I will paint the wing from the butterfly itself.’ He sallied forth, 
extended his walk to the fields, some miles distant, and caught 
one of those beautiful insects; it was of the species called the 
Peacock. Our artist brought it carefully home, and commenced 
sketching it, but not in the painting-room ; and leaving it on 
the table, a servant swept the pretty little creature away before 
its portrait was finished. On learning his loss, away went 
Stothard once more to the fields to seek another butterfly. But 
at this time one of the tortoise-shell tribe crossed his path, and 
was secured. 3le was astonished at the combination of colour 
t hat presented itself to him in this small but exquisite work of 
the Creator, and from that moment determined to enter on a 
new and difficult field—the study of the insect department of 
Natural History. He became a hunter of Butterflies. The 
more he caught the greater beauty did he trace in their infinite 
variety, and he would often say that no one knew what he owed 
to those insects—they had taught him the finest combinations in 
that difficult branch of art—colouring .”—British Butterflies, by 
IV. S. Coleman. 
HARDY ELOWERING HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 
( Continued from page 91.) 
CALCEOLARIA—Slifpekwort. 
Nat. ord., Scropliulariaceae. Linn. Diaudria Monogynia. 
Gexebic Character. — Calyx four-cleft, segments ovate. Corolla 
ringent, upper lip small, acute, lower lip slipper-shaped, with 
involute margins. Stamens filaments short ; anthers two- 
cellcd. Style short, stigma rather acute. Capsule two-celled, 
four-valved. 
Calceolaria amplexicaulis (stem-clasping). Branches suf- 
fruticose; leaves stem-clasping, ovatc-oblong, acuminated, 
cordate, crenately-serrated, pilose; corymbs terminal, flowers 
urabellately fascicled. II ft. Yellow. June. Peru. 
C. aeachxoides (cobweb-like). Stem herbaceous, branched, 
spreading, except the corolla, clothed with white cobwebbed- 
wool; leaves ligulately oblong, slightly toothed, narrowing 
into long winged petioles, connate at base; peduncles terminal, 
twin, elongated, dichotomous. 1 ft. Purple. June. Chili. 
C. COXXATA (base-jointed-leaved). Plant suffruticose; branches 
and pedicels clammy-haired ; leaves stem-clasping, lanceolate, 
acuminated, cordate, denticulated, hairy beneath; racemes bifid, 
panicled, or corymbose, flowers usually twin. 2 ft. Yellow. 
Chili. 
C. corymbosa (corymbose or flat-headed). Plant hairy; radical 
leaves broad, rosulate, white beneath ; stems leafless at bottom, 
but dichotomous and leafy at top; flowers corymbose. 1 ft. 
Yellow. May. Chili. 
C. crexatiflora (round-notch-lipped). Leaves obovate-oblong, 
unequally serrated, rather tomentose; corolla with lower lip 
crenated. II ft. Yellow-spotted. June. Chili. 
C. FLEXUOSA (zigzag). Plant shrubby, rough, covered with 
glandular villi; branches flexuous ; leaves cordate, unequally 
and bluntly crenated, petiolate, remote, rough above; peduncles 
axillary and terminal, many-flowered, pedicels umbellate. 3 ft. 
Yellow. Peruvian Mountains. 
C. Eotiieegilli (Dr. Fothergill’s). Leaves spatulate, entire, 
pilose above; peduncles scape-formed, one-flowered. 6 in. 
Orange. April. Falkland Isles. 
C. Heebektiaxa (Herbert’s). Plant shrubby, much branched ; 
leaves oblong, wrinkled, crenated, pubescent, petiolate, alike- 
coloured on both surfaces; peduncles terminal, corymbose, 
pilose. 6 in. Yellow. June. Chili. 
C. PLAXTAGIXEA (Plantain-leaved). Plant stemless, pubescent; 
leaves radical, ovate-rhomboid, rosulate, serrated, nerved ; 
scapes usually two or three-flowered, pilose ; corolla lower lip 
large, hemispherical, upper lip small, bifid. 1 ft. Yellow. 
August. Chili. 
C. polyfolia (Poly-leaved). Plant suffruticose, entirely clothed 
with white wool; leaves ovate or oblong, crenated, tapering 
into the petioles, connate at base; peduncles elongated, ter¬ 
minal, dichotomous; flowers corymbose. 1 ft. Yellow. June. 
Chili. 
C. purpurea (purple). Plant herbaceous ; steins numerous, 
erect, branched ; leaves wrinkled, hispid, radical ones cuneate- 
spatulatc, serrated, quite entire below, petiolate, acutish, stem 
ones cordate, decussate, superior ones smaller uud entire; 
corymbs terminal, many-flowered. 1ft. Purple. July. Chili. 
C. purpurea elegans (elegant). 1 ft. Pale purple. June. Chili. 
U. -picta (painted). 1 ft. White and purple. June. Chili. 
These true species of Calceolaria are, I fear, nearly all lost to 
the country. I remember at the time of their introduction they 
were highly valued ; but the hybrids have nearly superseded 
them in public estimation, which is a matter to he regretted, 
j They are nearly quite hardy, but a frame shelter will be advisable. 
To keep them true, propagate by cuttings in September, in a cold 
frame in sand, and keep the young plants in frames through 
j winter. Peat, loam, and sand, will grow them well. 
(To be continued.) T. Appleby. 
PROTECTING BROCCOLI IN WINTER, 
I FI XT) that Broccoli was injured by the frost last winter, and 
some of your writers or readers impute it to a peculiar season, as 
if we never had such a bad one before ; but I can prove that all 
who have taken my advice, and acted accordingly, have plenty 
of good Broccoli this peculiar season ; and I am not afraid to 
say that all who will try my simple rule will never have to com¬ 
plain of a bad season. 
Forty years’ experience has convinced me that the best way is 
always the cheapest: those who preserve their Broccoli will have 
plenty of stalks and leaves to dig in for Potatoes, which have 
been proved by me to be the very best manure, having produced 
abetter crop than I ever saw from anything else. 
When Broccoli plants are full grown dig a hole on the south 
side as near as possible to the plant; then press the plant down 
with the foot, and the earth that comes from the second plant 
place upon the stalk of the first. This will prevent the plant 
from rising, and when the frost sets in it will cover its own weak 
part, the heart. Those who wish to have a succession of heads, 
or who wish them to last for weeks, shoutd lay some at the 
beginning of November and others at the end. Those laid at the 
end of the month ought to he pulled up, and left in the sunshine 
or wind for several hours.— Wm. Johnsox Neal, Sweetbrier 
Farm , Warden, near Biggleswade. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
(IRam xi atomyllum Ellisii {Mr. Fills s Grammalophyllum). 
An Orchid brought from Madagascar by the Rev. W. Ellis. 
Flowers yellow, marked with purple.— {Botanical Magazine, 
t. 5179.) 
Cocos tlumosa {Feathery-flowered Cocoa-nut). 
A Brazilian Balm, first introduced many years since by Messrs. 
Loddiges. See an account of it in The Cottage Gardexee, 
page 7 of present volume, under Von Martius’s name of C. coro- 
nata.” — {Ibid., t. 5180.) 
Calliaxdka h.ematocephala {Bed-headed CaUiandra). 
“A most lovely shrub,” introduced from the Botanical Gardens 
of Calcutta and Mauritius ; but its native country unspecified. 
Its flowers are splendid, from the mass of scarlet filaments they 
produce.— {Ibid., t. 5181.) 
Begoxia Bowbingiaxa {Boivriny's Begonia). 
A native of Hong-Ivong, not very striking.— {Ibid., t. 5182.) 
Pteeis quadriaurita {Four-eared Brake). 
This and some of its very beautifully-coloured varieties are 
here depicted. They are found at Moulmein and various other 
localities within the tropics,— {Ibid., t. 5183.) 
NOTES ON HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA. 
Vixtage ix Transylyaxia. —After about an hour’s gallop 
across some rich green meadows, in which the beautiful Baroness 
W-accompanied us,—for the ladies of Transylvania almost 
rival our own as horsewomen — we arrived at the vineyard, 
situated on the slope of a small hill. There were about one 
hundred peasants employed in picking and carrying large baskets 
of the bright Grapes to a small pressing-house near by. Beautiful 
groups they formed as we caught sight of them every now and 
then, half hid among the tall Vines : there were young and old, 
men and women—the village seemed to have sent out all its 
