24 THE FLORIST. 
Apollo (Turner), a dense well-formed and remarkably symmetrical variety of 
the fancy class, purplish crimson, distinctly and regularly tipped with 
white 
Mrs. Wellesley Pigott (Keynes), a neatly cupped and even well-filled flower of 
cea proportions, white, slightly tinged with yellow at the base of the 
orets 
Mrs. Bailhasche (Keynes), full size, close, with full high centre, palt peach 
blossoms or deep flesh colour 
Neville Keynes (Keynes), buff yellow, faintly tipped with pale purple; it proves 
to be a remarkably constant and useful fiower 
Beauty (Turner), an evenly built and compact flower of a distinct peachy 
blush colour, paler towards the centre, and yellowish at the base of the 
florets ; 
The following were commended :— 
Rev. John Dix (Keynes), a fancy flower of large size and good outline, with a 
prominent high centre, blush striped and spotted wiih dark crimson 
Sir George Douglass (Dodds), a very effective and ornamental variety for the 
flower garden, of moderate properties, colour orange yellow tipped with 
bright red 
Mrs. Col. Vyse (Turner), large, deep, and regular. with admirably arranged 
florets, but rather low and deficient in the centre, blush white tipped with 
purplish lake; 
Splendid (Green), a fancy variety of good average form and well filled. pale lilac 
blush, striped and spotted with bright deep crimson 
George Grapes (Turner), a flower of good properties, yellowish buff or maize 
colour suffused with salmony red ; 
Pluto (Turner), a richly coloured fancy flower in the style of Jupiter, crimson 
maroon passing to crimson, and unequally tipped with white 
George Eliot (Turner), a distinct bright rosy purple, the flower being in other 
respects of average properties 
Compacta (Rawlings), lilac blush tipped with purple 
. NEW PLANTS OF 1859. 
THE following list, abridged from ‘‘ Hogg’s Year Book for 1860,” 
enumerates some of the more important new plants which haye come 
particularly under notice during the past year :— | 
ACER POLYMORPHUM PAMATUM ATRO-PURPUREUM. (Mlore de Serres, 1273). 
Aceracee. Hardy tree; leaves deeply palmate-lobed; dark rurplish red. 
Introduced to the Belgian gardens from Japan by Dr. Siebold. 
HOLLANTHUS Livinastoni1. Labiate. Stove plant, with the habit of Ange- 
lonia, and related to Plectranthus; flowers chocolate-coloured, borne freely 
in terminal spikes. Collected in Eastern Africa by Dr. Livingstone. 
Messrs. Rollisson & Sons. 
AESCHYNANTHUS CORDIFOLIUS. (Bot. May. 5131.) Cyrtandracee. A beau- 
tiful stove epiphyte, resembling Ai. tricolor; branches pendent; leaves 
glabrous, cordate-ovate ; flowers axillary, short, broad, crimson scarlet, 
marked on the face with streaks of black, and stained about the throat with 
yellow. Java. Messrs. Veitch & Son. 
AEscuLus inpIca. (Bot. Mag. 5117). Hippocastanee. An ornamental hardy 
tree, of the Pavia group; leaflets broad, lanceolate, serrated; flowers in 
large terminal thyrsoid panicles, white, the two lateral petals pink-stained 
at the base, the two upper ones marked there with yellow and crimson. 
Mountains of Northern India. The tree is quite hardy in our climate, and 
has been flowered by Sir H. E. Bunbury, Bart., at Mildenhall. 
ALLAMANDA VIOLACEA. Apocynacee. A beautiful climbing stove shrub, which 
has not, we believe, flowered in England; but Dr. Gardner, who found it 
