January 16, 1904. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
51 
Notes on the Illustrations in this Issue. 
Jacohinia chrysostephana. 
The above plant was originally -introduced from Mexico in 
1870, yet it must have been much neglected, considering its 
beauty and utility for the decoration of the stove or warm con¬ 
servatory in winter. It has been described in books under the 
name of Cyrtanthera, in allusion to the curved tube of the 
corolla. More recently a large number of garden and other 
plants belonging to the order Acanthacen© have -been over¬ 
hauled, and their names put into something like proper order. 
Many of them have: hitherto been known under the, name of 
Justicia., a. generic name that has been applied to hundreds 
of plants, and which may be called to mind by gardeners under 
the name of Justicia, earneai. That plant, however, is also a 
Jacobin ia. 
The plant under notice is a dwarf shrub, with oppo¬ 
site, oval, olive-green, glossy, and smooth leaves, so 
that no- difficulty should be occasioned in keeping it 
clean. The tubular flowers are produced in dense ter¬ 
minal compound cymes;, forming a mass not unlike the 
shape of a crown, as the specific name implies—namely, 
“ golden crown.” The tubular two-lipped flowers are 
often described as; golden-yellow, but, according to ordi¬ 
nary usage of the terms applied to colour, it. would be 
as correctly described as orange-yellow. This would 
apply to the plants which we have seen, at any rate, in¬ 
cluding those shown at the last Drill Hall meeting of 
the R.H.S. by Messrs. J. Yeitch and Sons, Ltd., Chelsea, 
whose exhibit was greatly brightened by a group of 
this species, and of the one which we describe below. 
Few people who visited the show failed to notice these 
flowers on account of their bright colour and distinct¬ 
ness from anything else in the hall. Most people ad¬ 
mitted that they had a. bright and cheerful effect on 
a dull winter’s day. 
All of the species of Jacobinia may be cultivated with 
success in a compost similar to that given to the well- 
known Jacobinia, magnifica, grown under the name of 
Justicia earnea. This would consist of fibrous loam and 
leaf mould in about equal proportions, with sufficient 
sand to keep the compost .open. 
Presuming that these plants are. raised from cuttings 
in the, early spring, they may be potted on. as they re¬ 
quire it into larger sizes until in 6-in. pots, which are 
quite- large enough for a. plant of one year’s growth at 
least. A plant of this, age, when matured and ready to 
push up its flower spikes in the autumn, would be about 
a foot in height, more or less, according to the vigour 
of the plant, and the treatment accorded it, by the culti¬ 
vator. Such plants are- extremely useful at, a time 
when anything but forced subjects is rather scarce. 
When flowering is over, these old plants may be cut 
down, a,nd after starting them in heat cuttings may be 
taken from them, and grown on in the same way as in 
the previous year. By cutting them back the old plants 
are kept dwarf, and may also- be grown -on again. These 
old specimens will give from tlrree to five or more stems, while 
the plants raised from cuttings give the finest heads when 
allowed to grow on with a single stem only, similar to, that 
represented in our illustration. By imagining that, dense mass 
of flowers t,o, be orange-yellow, readers wall be able, to form an 
idea of the plant. 
Jacobinia coccinea. 
The habit of this plant, is; very similar to that of the above 
named, a,s one, would naturally suspect. The leaves are oval 
and opposite, the latter character being very frequently found 
in the order. The form of the inflorescence is, how-eve,r, con¬ 
siderably different. It is made up of a cylindrical mass of 
ovate and closely-overlapping downy bracts of a bluish cast. 
From the axil of each of these bracts a tubular, two-lipped 
crimson flower arises;, commencing to expand at the base of 
the spike 1 , and continuing in, succession upwards. As the indi¬ 
vidual flowers last a considerable time, most of them will be 
expanded before the first dies away, so that we have a veiy dis¬ 
tinct and striking object in this plant for the decoration of a 
moderately warm stove or conservatory in winter. The 
anthers are orange, and therefore offer some contrast to the 
brilliant red or crimson, colour of the flowers. Both of the above 
may very well be grown in the same collection on account of 
their distinctness in, colour, .as well as in, the shape of the in¬ 
florescence. The culture of both is identical. 
Cypripedium insigne. 
Mr. E. Burrows,, gardener to the Venerable Archdeacon of 
Chichester, Woodbeding Rectory, Midhurst,, Sussex, writes to 
say: “ I am sending a, photo,graph of a very good plant of 
Cypripedium insigne that has been very much admired, not, 
altogether for the; number of blooms (fifteen), but for the size 
of the flowers and length of stem, only about two, of them being 
under a foot, long. I thought you might think it worth repro¬ 
ducing in The Gardening World.” 
We may also state that Mr. Burrows sent a pictorial post¬ 
card along with his letter and the photo, but as the latter was 
rather pale a,nd the postcard rather a, good one, we selected the 
latter for reproduction. The plant speaks for itself, as well as 
its cultivator, and the; reason why we selected the postcard in 
preference to, the photo was, on account of the. Maidenhair 
Ferns, which formed too light, a, background, thus obscuring the 
sharp outline of the Cypripedium, which we consider a very 
good specimen, for a pot of moderate dimensions. 
The Shasta Daisy. 
For some years past our readers have been occasionally 
hearing of a, plant called the Shasta Daisy, of which we now 
give an illustration to furnish some idea of its general appear¬ 
ance. It is one of the productions of Mr. Burbank, of Cali¬ 
fornia, who describes, it as a hybrid between Chrysanthemum 
maximum and a, native Oxeye Daisy of America. Contrary to 
