NEW GARDEN PLANTS. 
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P. denticulatum, radula, and several other varieties, as Blandfordianum and Quercifolium, are 
almost Fern-like; indeed, so varied and pretty is the foliage of the different species and varieties 
of the Pelargonium, that by a judicious admixture of the variegated kinds, an exceedingly neat and 
pretty bouquet may he formed in the winter season, without using any flowers at all, and certainly a 
much sweetei bouquet than if the flowers were used without the foliage. The use of variegated and 
fancy foliage in the formation of bouquets, or for mixing with plants for decorative purposes generally, 
moie especially by artificial light, is not sufficiently understood, neither is the use of plants remarkable 
for their foliage only. But we are progressing; and the gay and tawdry will soon, among persons of 
taste and refinement, give way to the chaste and beautiful. Annexed is a very suitable stand for 
showing cut Pelargoniums, and a very fit ornament for the drawing-room.—A. 
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Mm (fnrbtt plants. 
Nymphjea Devoniensis, Paxton. Duke of Devonshire’s Hybrid Water-Lily. Order Nymphseacese (Water- 
Lily tribe). One of the very finest of this fine race of aquatic plants now engaging so much attention. It has 
been raised at Chatsworth by Sir J. Paxton, between JS. rubra and N. Lotus. Both the leaves and flowers are 
much larger than in the parents; the former have a strongly dentate margin ; and are sometimes a foot and a half 
in diameter; the latter rich crimson, produced without intermission through the whole season, and measuring 
eight inches in diameter. The colour is not quite so deep as in its parent. 
Berberis trieurca, Lindley. Three-forked Berberis. Order Berberaceae (Berberid tribe).—A noble ever¬ 
green shrub, with pinnated leaves a foot and a half long, with broad and very coriaceous leaflets four or five inches 
long, deep green, with a few spines at the base, and about three forming a trident quite at the aoex. The flowers 
are not known. It is expected to prove nearly, or quite hardy. Introduced from China by Mr. Fortune, and 
cultivated by Messrs. Standish and Noble. 
Guichenotia macrantha, Turczaninow. Large-flowered Guichenotia. Order Byttneriacese § Lasiopetalese 
(Byttneriad tribe).—A curious greenhouse evergreen shrub, of hoary aspect, growing two to three feet high, bear¬ 
ing whorls of linear-oblong downy leaves in threes; and from their axils are produced the one to three flowered 
peduncles. The flowers consist of a somewhat rotate pale purple downy calyx, within which are five small scale¬ 
like deep purple petals. It comes from Swan Fiver, and was sent by Mr. Drummond to Kew. 
Spireralcea nutans, Scheidweiler. Nodding Spheeralcea. Order Malvaceae (Mallowwort tribe)._A fine 
shrubby malvaceous greenhouse plant, with large cordate five-lobed leaves, and axillary peduncles longer than 
the leaves, bearing usually three large nodding crimson flowers, from which the column of yellow anthers project. 
It is a useful plant, of the same class as the larger Abutilons, and, like them, very showy, where there is space 
foi its developement. It is cultivated by M. Van Houtte, of Ghent, and is well figured in the Flore des Serres. 
Supposed to be a native of Guatemala. 
Tropasolum digitatum, Karsten. Digitate Indian Cress. Order Tropseolacese (Indian Cress tribe).—This is 
a handsome climbing plant; and as it is not stated to be annual, it is more probably one of the fibrous-rooted 
perennial kinds. The leaves are peltate, five to seven lobed, the lobes rounded and entire. The flowers have the 
calyx and spur brick red, inclining to carmine, and running into pale green, the former at its base, the latter at 
its point, the petals are yellow and ciliate -dentate. It is from the Carracas, and has been raised and flowered 
by M. Decker, of Jena, from seed sent by Dr. Karsten. 
Impatiens macrophylla, Gardner. Large-leaved Balsam. Order Balsaminacea? (Balsam tribe).—This is a 
coarse-leaved soft-stemmed stove plant, introduced from Ceylon to the Eoyal Garden at Kew, where it flowered 
in the early part of the summer after the seeds were sown. It grows two to three feet high, has large ovate-acuminate, 
deeply serrated, long-stalked leaves, mostly at the top of the stem, and producing from axillary buds, numerous 
crowded flowers on very short stalks. The flowers are small, but being deep orange-coloured, stained with red, 
and having a red upper sepal, they are rather pretty. The spur is curiously incurved, spiny, and inflated, and 
didymous at the apex. The stems are stout, and the leaves ample, with red petioles. 
Ilex leptacantha, Lindley. — Slender-spined Holly. Order Aquifoliaceae (Hollywort tribe).—A hardy ever¬ 
green shrub, a good deal like the Nepal L. dipyrena , and believed to be a Holly, from its being readily grafted on 
the common Holly ; its flowers and fruit are not known. The leaves are six inches long, by two wide, of a uni¬ 
form oval figuie, bordered with distant slender spiny teeth, and of the texture of Portugul laurel leaves. Intro¬ 
duced by Mr. Fortune from the north of China. 
Gastrolobium velutinum, Lindley. Velvety Gastrolobe.—Order Fabacese, § Papilionacete (Leguminous 
plants). A very handsome greenhouse shrub, having a remarkably soft velvety surface. The leaves are in whorls 
of three, sub-sessile, oblong-wedge-shaped, almost bilobed at the apex. The racemes are terminal, elongate, and 
bear numerous peculiarly rich orange-coloured flowers. It is from Swan Biver, whence it was sent by Mr. 
Drummond, and has been raised by Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place. 
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