This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
A large-flowered Orchid; green, with a yellowish-white lip. Peru Stove epiphyte. B. Hanbury, Esq.
A pretty and useful plant for the flower garden and for pots; flowers rosy, in dense racemes. Neilgherries. Half-hardy sub-shrub. Messrs. Osborn.
Finely variegated foliage, deep green, marbled with gray about the mid-rib, purple beneath; the flowers seem unknown. Central America. Stove perennial. M. Mathieu, Berlin.
Neat; flowers, pink. Venezuela. Stove dwarf shrub. M. Linden, Brussels.
A robust climber, with fine thick foliage, and dingy purple flowers. Himalaya. Hardy in Ireland. Glasnevin Bot. Garden.
The Gloriosa Plantii of English gardens. Showy and curious; flowers orange colored. Natal. Warm green-house tuberous perennial. Messrs. Henderson & Co., and others.
This fine showy stove climber, with yellow blossoms, has been recently re-introduced from the French gardens, under the name of Echites Pellieri.
Pretty; flowers in a corymb, white, with a deep yellow eye. Cape of Good Hope. Green-house annual of dwarf spreading habit. Horticultural Society.
Showy; flowers yellow, the sepals and petals spotted with brown; they have a delightful odor of violets. History not stated. Stove epiphyte. A. Kenrick, Esq.
A glaucous-leaved variety of 0. reflexum, named 0. casium in the German gardens.
Very ornamental; flowers bright orange, very profuse. New Holland. Green-house evergreen shrub. Messrs. Osborn.
An imported variety of the well known P. cornea, having much deeper-colored flowers, of a rosy tint. Messrs. Osborn.
A stemless plant, with dark green leaves having a central longitudinal streak of whitish red, dull brown red beneath; flowers white, with rosy bracts. Pern. Stove perennial. M. Mathieu, Berlin.
Said to be a fine species, with dark violet flowers and a purple calyx divided so as to resemble a stalked petaloid leaf. New Grenada. Stove shrub. M. Linden, Brussels.
Hardy California Pines, of which nothing further is known. Messrs. Law & Co.
A new Indian Pine with small cones, belonging to the two-leaved group. Supposed to be quite hardy from growing 8-10,000 feet elevation in Nepal. Horticultural Society.
A fine species, of ornamental habit, with an erect, elongated stem, and branched panicle of scarlet flowers. Lima. Stove shrub. Kew Bot. Garden.
Pretty and lively as a winter bloomer; flowers red. Brazil. Stove perennial. Hew Bot. Garden.
A fine evergreen shrub, with dull leathery crimson flowers. New Zealand. Green-house evergreen shrub. Claremont.
A fine, showy species; flowers large, yellow, in large corymbs. East Australia. Green-house evergreen shrub. Kew Bot. Garden.
A handsome hardy or half-hardy perennial; flowers deep rose-colored; habit like P. cortusoides. Mountains of Bootan. Mr. Nuttall.
Handsome in foliage and brilliant in blossom; flowers vermilion and yellowish-green; near Thibaudia. Venezuela. Cool stove shrub. M. Linden.
Curious, the flowers resembling a single Camellia; white. Bootan Alps, 9-12,000 feet elevation. Messrs. E. G. Henderson.
An elegant variety of one of the pretty Sikkim species; flowers rose-pink. Himalaya. Hardy evergreen shrub. Kew Bot. Garden.
An interesting Javanese species, with neat primrose-colored flowers. Java, at from 5,000 to 9,700 feet elevation. Green-house evergreen shrub. Messrs. Rollison.
"A hardy distinct shrub; flowers below the summit of the branch ;" color unknown. Bootan Alps, at 9-10,000 feet elevation. Messrs. E. G. Henderson.
"A fine shrub, hardy, or nearly so; flowers supposed, from the examination of the buds, to be yellow." Mountains of Bootan, at 6-7,000 feet elevation. Messrs. E. G. Henderson.
"A magnificent foliaged plant;" flowers unknown. "To all appearance nearly hardy." Mountains of Bootan, at 6,500-7,500 feet elevation. Messrs. E. G. Henderson.
"A magnificent green-house species; the largest-flowered Rhododendron known; flowers white, with tint of rose, and yellow at the base; delightfully fragrant" Bootan, at 4-5,000 feet elevation. Messrs. E. G. Henderson.
"A fine hardy species; flowers deep crimson scarlet; dwarf habit, and large truss." Mountains of Bootan. Messrs. E. G. Henderson.
Beautiful; flowers deep rose, with a yellowish-green star-shaped eye. Southern United States. Green-house perennial herb. Frogmore.
Showy, without coarseness; flowers brilliant scarlet, in erect racemes. History not stated. Green-house soft-wooded shrub. French gardens.
Ornamental, of erect herbaceous habit; flowers scarlet, with an orange spotted throat, Gesnera-like. Santa Martha. Stove perennial. M. Van Houtte.
A coarse-leaved plant, but having brilliant scarlet flowers. Andes of Peru. Stove soft-wooded shrub. Kew Bot. Garden.
A tree groundsel, coarse in foliage, but really showy in spring; flowers yellow. Mexico. Green-house shrub. Kew Bot. Garden.
A beautiful little variegated herb with deep green leaves, marked with white oval spots, " as if sown with pearls;" flowers bright rose color. India. Stove perennial. Messrs Veiteh.
A splendid shrub;. flowers deep rose color, in broad flat heads. Northern China. Hardy shrub. Messrs. Standish & Noble.
An ornamental shrubbery plant sent by Mr. Fortune as an Ame-lanchier; flowers large, white. Northern China. Hardy shrub. Messrs. Standish & Noble.
Showy; the flowers large and bright yellow, in terminal clusters. New Grenada. Cool stove shrub or small tree. M. Linden, Brussels.
A garden name for some unrecognized, and possibly new, hardy coniferous plant, reported to come from the north of India. Mr. Pontey.
A noble evergreen tree, with flattened branches like Thuja. Japan. Probably hardy. Leyden Bot. Garden.
A noble evergreen tree, the branches " resembling some of the more graceful species of Lyoopodium." California. Hardy evergreen tree. It is also called Thuja Menziesti, T.Craigiana, and Libocedrus decurrens. Messrs.Law & Co.
The California Nutmeg, a beautiful evergreen tree, with the aspect of Csphalotaxus, From the Sierra Nevada of California, and probably a hardy plant Messrs. Fetich.
Botanically interesting; flowers yellowish-white. Venezuela. Greenhouse annual. M. Linden, Brussels.
Two small and unimportant epiphytes, the first from Bio, with cinnamon, the second from Demerara, with olive-green flowers. Stove epiphytes. Messrs. Fetich.
Pretty; the flowers large white, the lip involute Gloxinia-like, deeply bordered with red. Central America. Stove perennial. Messrs. Jackson.
One of the most noble of evergreen trees, having, in fact, an imperial aspect, and attaining almost fabulous size. California. It is believed to be quite hardy. Messrs. Veitch.
A beautiful annual with the habit of Eutoca viscida ; flowers large, bell-shaped, deep purple. California. Hardy annual. Messrs. Vetich.
 
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