When our English cousins find a new plant in the general order of things, they name it in honor of collector, the owner, or some well-known cultivator, botanist, or patron of gardening. When there is some more especial feature of admiration they look around for some military hero, like Wellington, or some member of a royal house, to give more honor, as they think, to the fortunate find. When the great water lily of the Amazon was discovered, only the name of Victoria could distinguish it; and Victoriae has been the specific name of a number of things supposed to be several degrees above their fellows. In introducing this plant Mr. Bull has again taken a liberty with the name of his sovereign, and given us the plant we now illustrate as Panax Victorian. How he feels justified in this appellation we may gather from his own description, which we here append :

"This is a distinct and very graceful stove plant, thickly furnished with leaves of a remarkably elegant character, forming a dense plumy gracefully recurving mass of pleasingly variegated foliage. The leaf-blade is ternate or almost pinnate. the lateral leaflets forked or trifid, the upper and terminal one larger, simple, ovate, tne edge lobed and spinosely toothed, and having the border prettily margined with white, which gives the plant a remarkably lively and pictorial character. It is a native of the South Pacific Islands, and is one of the most lovely and elegant variegated plants of modern introduction".

Panax Victoriae.

We may add that Panax belongs to the same family as the Aralia of our woods, of which the Angelica tree, Ginseng, and other plants, are members, all of which have very ornamental foliage, and are popular in some of the better specimens of landscape gardening. Where the winters are severe it will no doubt be classed as a cool greenhouse plant, but will be excellently well adapted for what is known as sub-tropical summer gardening.