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.
WE take from the National Garden Almanac, (London,) the following concise descriptions of the more important new plants introduced into England in 1854, some of which have already been noticed in previous numbers of this journal:
A beautiful tree of deciduous habit; supposed to be quite hardy, having been found in the central, northern, and eastern provinces of China. Mr. Glendinning.
Showy and of neat habit; flowers yellow, in large oblong heads. Swan river. Greenhouse evergreen shrub. Messrs. Veiteh.
A beautiful new annual, bearing "everlasting" flowers, which are of a lively rose color. South-west Australia. Greenhouse, or half-hardy annual with greenhouse cultivation. Kew Bot. Gard.
Probably a fine showy species; flowers golden yellow, with a red velvety calyx, the leaves glossy velvet-like purple beneath. Columbia. Stove perennial, if. Linden, Brussels.
Curious; one of the Mellagetta Peppers; flowers red and whitish, tinged with rose and yellow. Western tropical Africa. Stove perennial. Kew. Bot. Oar.
One of the variegated-leaved dwarf terrestrial Orchids; requires a hot damp stove. Messrs. Jackson.
A fine variety of a fine and well known Orchid; flowers uniform rich chocolate brown. History not stated. Stove perennial. Messrs. Rollisson.
Handsome; flowers dull scarlet, with yellowish tube, arranged in a cone-like head. Guatemala. Stove shrub. Messrs. Weeks & Co. \
A bold and showy variegated-leaved shrub, bearing handsome spikes of yellow flowers; the deep green leaves are marked by well defined broad whitish veins. Brazil.' Stove soft-wooded shrub. M. Van Houtte, Ghent; and Messrs. Veiteh. \
A noble Palm, which has flowered at Kew; it has leaves 6 - 8 feet long; flowers whitish. Brazil: Stove tree. Kew Bot. Gard.
A very showy native variety from China; flowers striped with bright vermilion on a white ground. Greenhouse evergreen shrub. Standish & Noble.
Singular as well as handsome; flowers white, double. From China. Green-house evergreen shrub. Messrs. Standish A Noble.
Said to be an ornamental plant; flowers pure white, with golden stamens, in heads resembling the Gueldres Rose. New Grenada. Stove soft-wooded sub-flhrnb. M. Linden, Brussels.
A variety of this fine hybrid scarlet-flowered Begonia, bearing the name of superba, has been exhibited during the summer. Like the original, it is a very showy plant Mr. Epps.
A gay dwarf shrub; flowers lively rose pink. West Australia. Green-house evergreen shrub. Messrs. Low & Co., and others.
An interesting and fragrant plant; flowers pale purple. Western Himalaya. Half-hardy shrub suitable for a wall. Glasnevin Bot. Gard.
Very handsome, the wood fragrant as in the allied Carolina Allspice; flowers large, dull purplish red. California. Introduced in 1881, but little known. Hardy shrub. Horticultural Society.
Splendid both in foliage and flower, the latter of which are said to be not fugitive as is common among Melastomads; flowers large, rich purple crimson. New Grenada. Stove shrub. M. Linden, Brussels.
Curious and interesting; flowers cell-shaped, greenish out-side, purplish and mottled within. Japan. Green-house climber, M. Van Houtte, Ghent.
A charming little evergreen shrub, with the leaves closely imbricated in four rows, and with drooping white bell-shaped flowers. Himalaya. Hardy evergreen shrub, requiring a cool moist peat bed. Glasnevin Bot. Gard.
Beautiful, and of neat habit; flowers rich deep blue, in dense globular heads, which are thickly studded over the branches and branchlets. California. Hardy evergreen shrub. Messrs. Veitch.
Distinct and showy; flowers deep blue, in stalked oblong or roundish heads. California. Hardy evergreen shrub. Messrs. Veitch.
A very fine new night-blooming Cactus; flowers very large, twelve inches long and nine in breadth, outside yellow, tinged with red, inside white. Supposed to be a native of Antigua. Dry stove shrub of straggling habit Kew Bot Gard.
Exceedingly ornamental, rivaling the well-known C. qurantiaeum; flowers bright orange. Central America. Cool stove or green-house shrub. It belongs to the Habrothamnus group, and has the habit of H. elegans. Zurich Bot. Gard.
A fine ornamental species; flowers large, blackish-purple. Alpine districts of the Columbian Andes. Cool stove or green-house shrub. M. Linden, Brus'ls.
A shrub with white sweet-soented flowers. China. Probably hardy or nearly so. Messrs. Standish & Noble.
A rather pretty species; flowers large, chocolate, bordered with cream color. Western Himalaya. Hardy climber. Glasnevin Bot Gard.
A fine Clematis in the way of C. patent (coerulea). The species has ©cerulean-blue flowers; the variety much paler, grayish, almost white. North China. Hardy climber. Messrs. Standish el Noble.
C. patent is the proper name of what is called in England C. coerulea. The plant named Sophia is a fine large-flowered variety of it, having a broad green band down the sepal. M. Van Houtte, Ghent.
Showy under good management; in the way of the single-flowered C. fragrant; flowers rose-colored. Northern China. Shrub, hardy at the root. Messrs. Standish & Noble.
 
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