FEBRUARY. 
35 
and fraudulentum of some), grows 4% feet high in the first season; leaves, 
including the leafstalk, sometimes 24 feet long and 19 inches across; a hand¬ 
some species for planting as single specimens on lawns when two years old, 
when it attains 64 feet high. S. laciniatum attains the height of 10 feet at 
Hyeres; very ornamental by its habit of growth, its large leaves, 2 feet long 
and 15 inches across, and its numerous bluish lilac flowers nearly 2 inches 
across. S. macranthum grows 9^ feet high at Monceaux in a single year, and 
13 feet high at Hyeres; leaves, including the leafstalk, 3 feet long and 21 inches 
across; flowers 2 inches across, and M. Verlot saw one measuring 34, of 
a fine violet. S. marginatum, one of the most ornamental species, growing by 
the end of the season 64 feet high from seed sown in the preceding July, with 
leaves a foot long and 10 inches across ; these when young are edged with 
white. S. pyracanthos grows from 2 a to 3 feet high ; leaves a foot long and 
3 inches across, both these and the stems covered with numerous fiery red 
spines; the plant is of a light and elegant character. S. quitoense very orna¬ 
mental foliage of a bright green colour, with amaranth-coloured veins. 
S. robustum, a noble species, growing 4 feet high in the first season, and having 
leaves 30 inches long by about a foot across ; the shoots and under sides of the 
leaves covered with a yellowish ferruginous down, and the whole plant set with 
spines. S. Sieglingii, a very rapid-growing kind, attaining the height of 9 feet 
in a single season, making leaves 3 feet long, with a blade 26 inches long by 
19 or 20 across ; has a fine effect on a lawn or in the centre of large beds. 
S. Warscewiczii, one of the most ornamental of the whole genus, attaining the 
height of 64 feet in a single summer; leaves very large and handsome, with a 
very thick and spiny leafstalk 8 inches long, and a blade 24 feet long by 2 feet 
broad ; has the finest effect when planted singly on lawns ; requires a very warm 
situation and frequent watering. A cutting 6 inches long will by the September 
of the following year be a plant 6 feet or more higja. The best time for striking 
cuttings is from November to March. 
Such are the most remarkable of the Solanums described by Count de 
Lambertye, and each description is accompanied by concise cultural directions. 
The part contains representations of S. crinitum, robustum, and ¥/arscewiczii, 
and concludes with a comparative table of the species described, showing their 
various characters, and the particular claims of each to cultivation. The work 
when complete will doubtless be very useful to all requiring information on the 
plants employed in sub-tropical gardening, and which are but little known to 
the majority of cultivators. That such plants can be successfully grown in this 
country and are capable of producing great results has been abundantly proved 
at Battersea Park; they have already risen high in favour, and will rise higher 
still as they become better known. 
OUR CONTEMPORARIES. 
Of these a goodly pile has accumulated, but we have only room to notice a 
few this month. 
In LTleustratiou Horticole for November, the first plate is a repre¬ 
sentation of Aubrieiia Campbelli , raised by Mr. Campbell, of the late firm of 
Spary k, Campbell, Brighton, and sent out by Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, 
of the Wellington Nurseries. M. Lemaire, the editor, considers that it has 
sprung from the well-known A. deltoidea; but whatever may be its origin, its 
violet purple flowers with a white eye will render it very ornamental in the 
spring and early summer months for beds, edgings, and rockwork; and the 
plant altogether will be a fitting companion to Arabis albida, Draba aizoides, &c. 
