NEW GARDEN PLANTS. 
and watered freely until they have made a tolerable growth. "We then begin to inure them gradually 
to a lower temperature by transferring them to the greenhouse, then to cold pits, and finally to the 
open air; and in the last week in May, or the first in June, we plant them in beds previously trenched 
and enriched with good strong decomposed manure. We give them abundance of water when they 
are planted, and afterwards treat them occasionally to a copious soaking of liquid manure. For the 
outsides of the beds we use Canna coccinea, which grows two feet; the next range is C. patens , from 
three to four feet; and in the centre C. gigantea, four to six feet.— John Cox, gardener to W. Wells, Esq. 
Iledleaf. 
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Camptosema rubicund um, Hooker and Arnott. Ruby-flowered Camptosema.—Order Fabacese (Leguminous 
plants).—The Kennedy a splendens of some. A luxuriant climbing stove shrub, with trifoliolate leaves, consisting 
of smooth petiolate oblong or oblong-elliptical retuse leaflets. The flowers produced in summer are in long 
drooping racemes, and are deep ruby-red, and about as large as those of Kennedya rubicunda. It is from 
Southern Brazil, and was introduced from the German gardens about 1848. It is a very showy plant for a 
warm house, where there is abundant space for its growth, but does not flower when restricted. See Botanical 
Magazine , t. 4608. 
Cedronella cana, Hooker. Hoary-leaved Cedronella.—Order Lamiacese (Labiate tribe).—A showy border 
flower, apparently quite hardy and free-growing. It is a branched hoary herb, two and a-half to three feet high. 
The leaves are cordate-ovate, or approaching to hastate in the lower parts of the plant, smaller and narrower 
above. The false whorls of flowers form a long and crowded spike at the ends of the numerous compactly 
branched stems ; the corollas have a long narrow tube, and a toothed middle-lobe to the lower lip, and are of a 
lively rose-colour. It is a native of Texas, and has been introduced in 1850 to Kew. It flowers through the 
summer months. See Botanical Magazine , t. 4618. 
Potentilea ambigua, Cambessedes. Three-toothed Himalayan Potentilla. Order Rosacese (Rosewort tribe). 
-—A very handsome hardy perennial plant, well figured in the Botanical Magazine , t. 4613. It is of suffruticose 
habit, with ascending purplish stems from a woody root; they grow six inches to a foot high, and bear ternate 
leaves on longish petioles, the leaflets are cuneate-obovate, trifid at the apex, and of a deep green colour, paler 
beneath. The large showy flowers consist of five obcordate spreading petals, and grow singly on terminal 
peduncles. It comes from Sikkim and other parts of the Himalayas, where it is found at 12,000 to 13,000 feet 
elevation. It was introduced by Dr. Hooker in 1850, to the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. It is a summer¬ 
flowering plant. 
Acer circinatum, Bursh. Circinate Maple.—Order Aceracese (Maple tribe).—A handsome moderate-sized 
hardy deciduous tree, with pendulous-crooked branches, and palmate leaves, which are of a delicate green when 
young, and change in autumn to a lovely rose-crimson. The leaves burst in spring from a case of crimson leaf- 
scales. The flowers are purple, with white petals. The wood is fine-grained, white, and very tough. This tree, 
or rather large bush, has been introduced by the Horticultural Society from Oregon, and its foliage is represented 
in Paxton’s Flower Garden , ii., 147. 
Pheladelphus Satsumi, Siebold. Japanese Mock Orange.—Order Philadelphacese (Syringa tribe).—An 
ornamental hardy deciduous summer-blooming shrub, nearly allied to P. laxus. It is a slender bush, with the 
lower leaves oval-lanceolate acuminate with a few sharp serratures, and the upper leaves lanceolate very much 
acuminated and entire ; the under surface is slightly hairy, the upper deep green. The flowers are large, white, 
four-petalled, growing either singly or in pairs at the end of slender lateral shoots, or, as Dr. Lindley suspects 
( Paxt . FI. Gard., ii. 102), from a dried specimen supposed to be of the same species, coming, in mature plants, in 
interrupted racemes with linear, almost filiform, bracts. It was introduced from Japan in 1850. 
Pernettva ciliaris, Bon. Ciliated Pemettya.—Order Ericaceae (Heathwort tribe).—A hardy evergreen 
low-growing bush, with hard dark green ovate serrated leaves, covered slightly with stiff brown hairs on the 
under side. The flowers grow in numerous erect dense racemes, and are succeeded by deep reddish brown 
depressed berries, which render the plant very ornamental for an American border. It is figured in the Horti¬ 
cultural Society’s Journal, vi. 268. From the mountains of South Brazil. Introduced in 1849, by Messrs. Yeitch 
of Exeter. 
Eucryphia cordifolia, Cavanilles. Heart-leaved Eucryphia.—Order Hypericacese (Tutsan tribe).—A fine 
evergreen shrub, supposed to be hardy or nearly so. It has a stiff hard-wooded habit. The leaves are sessile, 
leathery, two to three inches long, oblong heart-shaped, dark green, and downy beneath. The flowers appear to 
be white, about as large as a small Camellia, and grow singly in the axils of the upper leaves. Messrs. Yeitch of 
Exeter having imported it from Chiloe and Patagonia, whence it was sent in 1850 by Mr. Lobb. Its flowering 
season is not known. 
