Callicarpa Purpurea

A hardy greenhouse shrub, with sharply serrated leaves, in the axils of which appear bunches of insignificant flowers succeeded by small shiny purple berries resembling glass beads, which are very ornamental, and remain all the winter on the plant. China.

Calls Around Boston

Being closely occupied with the proceedings of the Pomological Society during our brief stay at Boston, we were compelled to deny ourselves the pleasure we had anticipated, in visiting many of the beautiful gardens of that city and its environs. The Society adjourned on Friday, at 2 o'clock, and we only had that afternoon and the forenoon of Saturday, to make our calls; consequently they are few and brief.

Calopogon Pulchallum, (Grass Pink.)

We must not leave the swamp until we have discovered other treasures. The grass pink has a slender stalk of a foot or more in height, and near the top several large purple flowers, which possess the curious forms belonging to the Orchis family.

Caltha Palustris, (Water-Cowslips.)

Marking the course of the stream as it winds along through the meadow, this plant appears with its gay and yellow flowers, too well known to need description.

Calycanthtu

A writer in the Farmer and Gardener states that he has a white flowering variety of the Calycanthus florida, or common Sweet-scented Shrub. He says: "I have had these plants under cultivation several years. They are decidedly more vigorous growers than the dark variety. The flowers, which are straw-colored, are also larger and more fragrant, and bloomed through the past dry summer until frost. I do not know that they will produce the same flowers from the seed, but why should they not do so when they have preserved their original characteristics, though surrounded by the dark flowering varieties, ever since they were first known here, more than thirty years ago?" If the above is true, and we have no reason to doubt it, this new variety of an old and very popular shrub will certainly be a valuable acquisition to our gardens.

Calypso

An extra fine variety, with noble racemes of flowers of a beautiful soft rose beautifully marked with carmine.

Calystegia Pubescens

This plant,a double, climbing rose convolvulus, continuing to flower through a large portion of summer, a perennial, and perfectly hardy, had much to recommend it, and may yet be continued in cultivation by those who admire variety. But, like the Campanula tra'chelium, introduced for ornament, it is likely to prove a very troublesome weed. We Inst year planted two or three fragments of the root of the Calystegia, an inch long, and as large as goose quills, which grew, and pro-duced a profusion of flowers. But this spring we found them coming up over the whole surface within a circle of ten feet, whither, like the Canada thistle, their roots had extended. They were destroyed with the hoe; but in a short time they sprang up again, nearly covering the whole surface, with some extension of the circle. The soil is light; and they may not extend quite so rapidly in heavy soil.