Syringa Emodi, Encyc. of Trees and Shrubs, p. 638. fig. 1244.; S. índica Wall. Quite hardy. Jasminacea. - Jasminum revolitum Ker, J. chrysanthemum Rord., Encyc. of Trees and Shrubs, p. 655. A pretty shrub. Jasminum odoratissimum, jonquil-scented. Remarkably fragrant, tender ; deserves a place in every greenhouse. Scrophulariacea. — Búddlea séssilis. A dwarf and tender shrub; has not yet flowered here. Pentstèmon Scoúleri. On sandy soil, a hardy evergreen shrub. Thymeleacea. - Daphne Cneorum strictum. An upright-growing variety ; raised from seed in France. Daphne Cneòrum grandiflòrum. A variety with broader leaves and larger flowers than the species. Raised from seed in France. Daphne lutetiana. A hybrid raised in Paris: very fragrant. Daphne Aucklandii, Encyc. of Trees and Shrubs, p. 1117. Of the D. Gnidium group; with broader lanceolate leaves and a more robust habit than D. Gnidium. India, but hardy. Daphne collina latifolia. A distinct broad-leaved variety of D. collìna; raised in France. More tender than the species. Eleagnacea. - Hippophae salicifolia, Encyc. of Trees and Shrubs, p. 669. fig. 1369. Elæágnus triflora, and E. argentea (Shepherdia argentea Nutt.). Shrubs; the first species scarcely half-hardy. E. refléxa. Belgium. Artocarpet.. Morus álba incisa Large serrated leaves. Céltis áspera. Very narrow round leaves. Both sorts are raised from seed from the South of France. Juglandacea. - Pterocarya caucasica. A fine free-growing ornamental tree. The vigour of the plants of this species in the Sawbridgeworth Nursery was so much greater than what we had seen anywhere else, that we were quite astonished at them. Salicàceæ.-Salix americàna péndula. A prostrate species [possibly S. purpùrea], with dark shoots and leaves glaucous on the under surface, forming a most elegant pendulous tree, when grafted on the broad-leaved willow with obtuse rugose leaves and purple shoots. Mr. Rivers does not know the species. It does not succeed on the narrow-leaved species of willow. It has been grafted on some species of Pópulus, but lives only one or two years at most. Populus laurifolia Booth. P. viminalis Booth. Betulacea.-A'lnus jorullénsis. A species from Mexico. Corylace or Cupulifera.- Quercus pedunculata fastigiata viridis. A variety of Q. p. fastigiata with green shoots and light vivid green foliage, selected from seedlings raised here. Quércus pedunculata Hodginsii, the Irish hybrid Oak. Retains its leaves, which are green, till the end of the year. Quercus pedunculata hýbrida H. S. Quercus pedunculata area. Bright yellow shoots. France, 1841. Quercus pedunculata macrophylla. Leaves very large and long. France, 1841. Quercus sessiliflòra ambigua H. S. Q. falkenbergensis Booth. Q. pannónica Booth. Quercus E'sculus, Encyc. of Trees and Shrubs, p. 853. ; syn. pubescens péndula. A pendulous and beautiful variety of Q. pubescens (E'sculus) received from France as Q. péndula nòva. Quercus Cérris laciniata. An elegant variety of Q. Cérris from H. S. Quercus Cérris fulhaménsis péndula. A weeping variety from seed here. Quercus 'gilops latifolia. From H. S. A distinct variety with larger leaves than the species. Quercus álba var. stricta. An upright and free-growing variety of Q. álba, selected from seed here, and grafted on Q. pedunculata. Quercus Prinus castaneafòlia Meyer. Half-hardy evergreen; leaves glaucous on the under surface. A beautiful species. Quércus macrocárpa. A North American species, with acorns as large as Orleans plums. Quercus macrophylla. species. Distinct, with small acorns. A North American Quercus Catesbæi sempervirens. An evergreen variety of Q. C. from seed here. Quercus lancifolia. A Mexican oak, approaching virens in habit. Evergreen. A distinct and beautiful species. Quercus glabra, apparently Q. imbricata. Large laurel-like leaves. An elegant species, but tender hitherto, perhaps owing to the plants being very young. Quercus heterophylla. Nearly evergreen, like Q. vìrens, but not so hardy ; scarcely hardy, but very beautiful. New Orleans. Quercus Flex latifolia (perhaps crassifòlia would be better). Very thick and broad leaves. A distinct variety. The original tree in the Hammersmith Nursery. Quercus Flex salicifòlia. Original tree at Pishiobury, Sawbridgeworth. Very distinct and deserving of its name. Quercus Ilex laurifòlia. Deep green, large foliage. Original tree at Pishiobury. Quercus Ilex fagifòlia. From H. S. From H. S. From H. S. Quercus Ilex rotundifòlia, with very round dark green foliage. Selected from seedlings here. Quercus Ilex integrifòlia H. S. Quercus coccifera glaúca. Very curious. Small round leaves, under surface glaucous; deciduous. From Cels, Paris, 1840. Probably a hybrid between Q. pedunculata and Q. coccifera. Quercus Fontanèsii, Encyc. of Trees and Shrubs, p. 885. Subevergreen. H. S. Quercus spicata (rugòsa of some). A Mexican oak, with thick rugose evergreen foliage, half-hardy; would probably thrive in Devonshire. Succeeds well grafted on Q. pedunculata. Quercus confertifolia. Mexico. Evergreen. Quercus petiolaris H. S. Quercus callosa H. S. Fagus ferruginea, syn. F. americàna, Encyc. of Trees and Shrubs, p. 909. Fagus castaneæfòlia. Leaves scarcely to be distinguished from those of the Spanish chestnut. Fagus castaneæfòlia hýbrida. Apparently a hybrid between the above and the common beech. Fagus sylvatica purpurea major. A variety of the purple beech, with large leaves; colour very dark. France. Fagus sylvatica argentea, the silver-striped common Beech. A distinct variety from France. Fagus sylvatica purpurea péndula. A fine pendulous variety of the purple beech. France. Conifera Táxina.- Táxus microphýlla. From Yorkshire. A pretty fastigiate variety of the common yew. Conifera Cupressinæ.—Taxodium dístichum intermèdium. An upright variety of T. chinénse. Juniperus communis péndula. An elegant pendulous variety. Original tree at Pishiobury, Sawbridgeworth. Juniperus communis hibernica, the Irish Juniper. A beautiful fastigiate variety, distinct from the Swedish juniper, which is also fastigiate, and grows on soils unfavourable to the genus. Juniperus virginiana nàna. Original plant ten years old, and but 1 ft. high; from seed here. Juniperus virginiàna horizontális. Of remarkable horizontal growth; from seed here. Juniperus virginiàna péndula. A beautiful pendulous variety. Original tree at Parndon, Essex. A tree at Leveson Gower's, Esq., Clapham Common, approaches to this in habit. Juniperus Oxýcedrus Encyc. of Trees and Shrubs, p. 1083. Juniperus tetragona H. S. Juniperus bermudiana, grafted on the red cedar. Thuja filiformis, grafted on Thùja orientalis. The most remarkable of the Cupréssinæ, and not to be forgotten by any one who has ever seen the parent plant in the arboretum at Kew. Quite unique and quite hardy. Thuja hýbrida. This has been in the nurseries of Mr. Pearson of Chilwell, Nottingham, for forty years, under the name of the Sweet-scented Arbor Vitæ, received also from France. Conifera Abiétinæ.-Pinus Pináster Lemoniànus, Encyc. of Trees and Shrubs, p. 963. This variety is occasionally, in this nursery, selected from seedlings raised here of the pinaster. Abies excelsa nigra. A large tree at Burleigh bears numerous cones, and forms a fine object. Picea Pinsapo. A large stock of plants of this species, and also of P. cephalónica. Picea pectinata stricta. Seedlings from a remarkable fastigiate tree near Beccles, Suffolk, retaining the habit of the parent, which was destroyed in 1839 by wind. Perforated earthenware covers to seed-pans facilitate vegetation in seeds. Peat-earth seeds are raised in pans and boxes on the shady side of hedges and other screens, supported from the ground on boards to prevent the entrance of worms, and to facilitate protection in severe weather by mats suspended from the hedge, and reaching over the pots and pans on the shelf, like a cloak. KENT. Dartford Nursery; J. D. Parks. — Cýtisus alpinus intermèdius. Intermediate between the weeping and the common alpine or Scotch laburnum; a vigorous grower with a pendent habit; flowers deep yellow; racemes very long, sometimes 15 inches. A well-marked variety, deserving general cultivation. A new white and a new purple cineraria have been raised by Mr. Parks, which he has not yet "given out." MIDDLESEX. Horticultural Society's Garden. - Berberàccæ. - Bérberis umbellata Wallich. Bot. Reg., 1842, Monthly Chron., No. 42. A specimen of this new hardy shrub has flowered in the garden of W. Wells, Esq., of Redleaf, where it has been raised from Nepal seeds. It is something like B. aristàta, but has much narrower leaves, very decidedly glaucous underneath. From B. Coriària it differs in the same character, and in the flowers being much smaller, and in long-stalked clusters. The branches and spines are remarkably slender. The leaves are narrow, obovate, mucronate, slightly toothed, with very distant veins on a glaucous ground upon the under surface.” (Bot. Reg., 1842, Monthly Chron., No. 42.) G. G. Leguminosa.-Indigofera Dósua Dec., and Don's Miller. A straggling bush, a native of Nepal, with bright deep rose-coloured blossoms, highly ornamental. Raised in the Hort. Soc. Garden, where it flowered in May, 1840. "It appears to be a shrub sufficiently hardy to stand an ordinary winter in the open border, and growing vigorously in any good rich garden soil. It flowers 3d Ser.-1843. II. F freely during the months of July and August in the open border, but earlier if kept in the greenhouse. It is easily increased from cuttings of the young wood, treated in the ordinary way, or by seeds." (Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 57.) — G. G. Deeringia indica Spr., syn. Celòsia baccàta Retz. — G. Gordon. September 17. 1842. On walking through this garden on the 31st of December, we were much gratified by the state in which we found the following trees and shrubs :Bigg's Everlasting Crab, laden with fruit, which remains on all the winter, a truly splendid sight; Hippophae Rhamnoides fo'mina, also covered with its orange-coloured berries, which change towards spring to a dark straw colour (there is a still more splendid specimen of this tree, covered with fruit, in the Abney Park Cemetery); Symphòria glomerata, covered with its fine purple fruit, and forming a highly ornamental bush; Cotoneaster frigida and affìnis, both covered with fruit, but much less so in the Hort. Soc. Garden than in the Abney Park Cemetery; Elæágnus argéntea (syn. Shepherdia argéntea), Córnus màs, and Hamamèlis virgínica, in full flower, the Glastonbury thorn coming into flower, The Abney Park Cemetery at Stoke Newington contains 31 acres, and a named arboretum has been planted in it by Messrs. Loddiges, which contains every hardy tree and shrub, varieties as well as species, that was in their collection a year ago. The names are on brick, the same as in the Hackney arboretum, and they are unfortunately already scaling off; but there will be no great expense incurred in naming them on cast iron, or on wood with castiron shanks, as in the conservatory of the Hort. Soc. Garden. The Fulham Nursery, Fulham; Messrs. Whitley and Osborn. — As usual, a number of new kinds have been added to the catalogue. Among these is a very curious variety of the common yew, with the leaves quite adpressed to the shoots. It was found in a bed of seedlings in the Chester Nursery by Messrs. Dickson, the proprietors of that establishment. The Dovaston variety of the common yew, of which a portrait is given in our Arboretum Britannicum, has also been added. There is a very handsome small plant of this variety in the Hort. Soc. Garden. Exotic Nursery, King's Road, Chelsea; Joseph Knight. The following names have been sent us, of the spelling of some of which we are doubtful, never having heard of them before. Ribes péndulum Rhamnus cucullatus Rh. rubelàris ferrugineum álbum Salix péndula nòva [? S. americàna péndula, p. 59.] 鼍響 Rhododendron pyramidàle Chélsoni punctàtum Tília argéntea péndula [? T. europæ`a U'lmus chinénsis NORFOLK. pyramidalis Great Yarmouth Nursery; Youell and Co. Araucaria imbricata in large quantities has stood within 500 or 600 yards of the sea, and fully exposed to the cutting winds from the north-east, for two years, without the slightest injury.-Y. & Co. SOMERSETSHire, Taunton Nursery; J. Young. - We visited this nursery on October 1. 1842, and found it very well laid out, with an excellent dwelling-house in the form of an old English cottage, built of solid blocks of stone, and thatched, combining every comfort expected in such a dwelling, and much of elegance and refinement. There is a veranda which has an excellent effect; and this, and also one of the living-rooms, open into a handsome conservatory. We do not recollect any nurseryman's house in England that can be placed on a par with this dwelling, except the house of Mr. Veitch, sen., in the Mount Radford Nursery, Exeter. Mr. Veitch and Mr. Young are unquestionably at the head of their profession, as far as commodious and tasteful dwellings are concerned. We could refer to one or two nurserymen's houses about London, for example, the late Mr. Wilmott's house at Lewisham, where there are commodious enough rooms within, perhaps as much so as those of the houses we have mentioned; but they form part of streets, or in some way or other are so circumstanced that they do not exhibit a single particle of taste without; houses, in short, that no man of taste would live in, if he could possibly help it. Along the walks in the Taunton Nursery there is a tolerable arboretum, exhibiting numerous fine specimens of the more rare trees and shrubs; and we were agreeably surprised to find the genus Cratæ`gus, with only one or two exceptions, correctly named. There are remarkably fine specimens of Crataegus trilobata and C. virgínica, covered with fruit. In a bed of seedlings of Sophora japónica a plant has appeared with pendent shoots, exactly like the old S. japónica péndula; but we do not think it worth keeping distinct, any more than are the numerous plants of Quercus pedunculata heterophylla, or Acer platanöìdes laciniàta, which frequently come up among seedlings of the species. There is an excellent stock of many articles, and particularly of Tilia europæ'a álba péndula, the weeping Hungarian lime, budded on the top of stems 12 ft. high. This splendid variety of lime deserves to be far more frequent than it is on lawns among curious or odd trees. We saw a new yellow Portugal broom; a new and valuable hardy variety of Lonicera sempervirens serótina; and Lonicera Góldü, which Mr. Young considers distinct from L. occidentàlis; Arbutus procèra budded on the common species in May last, and already producing shoots above a foot in length; Bignonia radicans supérba, quite a bush besides a number of other articles. In the lawn, which embraces the house on three sides, and contains some pretty pieces of rockwork, enclosing bright little basins of living water, there are many fine plants. We noticed particularly Bouvardia triphýlla splendens, forming a bush 24 ft. high; and a group of heaths, which Mr. Reed, the foreman, has planted out in a circular ; |
