stood stiffly erect, about two thirds as large, and of the same form as that of Cèreus grandiflorus, the calyx and petals all of one color, which is a most delicate blush, like that of Lady Hume's camellia, shading off to a deeper tinge at the midribs; stamens white, as numerous and disposed as in the grandiflorus; the tube of the calyx showing also the same exquisite tinge of green, nearly scentless; opened about nine o'clockclosed forever at nine at night.

Sept. 1.-I have never observed, in reports of floral exhibitions, or in notices of visits to northern gardens, one of my decidedly favorite climbing plants, the Clitòria, or, as I believe it is now called, Vexillària ternàtra. Its very large, upside down papilionaceous flowers, of the richest mazarine blue, are exceedingly grateful to the eye at this season of the year. I have not yet seen Ipomæ a Léarii, but, until I do, I certainly shall doubt if it can compete with my beauty when gracefully trained. Vexillària virginica, and V. Mariàna are also well deserving a place in every garden. I believe they are all perennials, but may be treated as annuals. Ipomæ`a Bònanox is another magnificent climber, making a most exuberant growth, with singularly shaped leaves and flowers, having a tube six inches long, and the limb of the corolla curiously plaited, of the purest white. It would scarcely ripen its seeds at the north, but it would be well worth while to obtain them from the south every year.

Sept. 16.-The Guernsey Lily is now splendidly in flower with me. Some bulbs have been left neglected and forgotten in the ground for four or five years. Several of them now send up three naked scapes two and a half feet high, each with an umbel of six to eight flowers.

Sept. 18.-Chromatella is a better rose than Solfitaire,—a little better in color and in form, and, with us, a much more free bloomer. Both are rampant growers. A cutting of Solfitaire, put down about a year ago, is now ten feet high, and has probably another month to grow before checked by frost. They will certainly form most magnificent bushes for another year but I have seen half open buds of Rivers's Yellow Tea [Qy. Yellow Persian-Ed.] which to my taste must surpass what either of them can produce.

La Reine produces huge buds, but I am jealous they will

prove to be what we call hard-headed, that is, open badly, or not at all, like Smith's yellow Noisette, and Bourbon Tea. Athens, Ga., Sept. 20, 1847.

ART. III. Wendell's Mottled Bigarreau Cherry; with an Engraving of the Fruit. By Dr. HERMAN WENDELL, Academy Park, Albany, N. Y.

SOME time since, we noticed this new and fine cherry as having been exhibited before the Albany and Rensselaer Horticultural Society in June last, where it attracted much attention; and, in our September number, we announced that

Fig. 45. Wendell's Mottled
Bigarreau Cherry.

a description of it would soon appear in our pages. Owing, however, to some delay, the drawing did not come to hand in season, and we now have the pleasure of presenting it with a correct description by Dr. Wendell.

This new and beautiful variety is the produce of a seedling tree grown by Dr. Wendell, of Albany. The seed was of the large white Bigarreau, from a garden of that city which has in it a collection of the finer varieties of the cherry. The seed was sown in 1840, and the tree first bore a few cherries in 1845. Dr. Wendell's description is as follows:

The mottled Bigarreau, (fig. 45,) is of large size, regular, obtuse-heart-shaped, dark purplish red, and beautifully mottled with dark points, those points becoming quite indistinct, however, when the fruit is fully ripe; the suture is distinctly marked with a dark line extending about half way round the fruit. The stalk is about an inch and a half long, somewhat stout, and set in a round and regular depression. The flesh is firm and crisp, though not tough, but juicy, high-flavored and rich. The fruit is ripe from the tenth

to the fifteenth of July, about the time of Downer's Late Red. The tree is of upright growth, quite thrifty, and an early bearer, as the seed was sown only seven years since, and this is the third time it has borne. The first year, it bore three cherries last year, about a dozen!-and this year, (1847,) more than a quart! H. W.

Academy Park, Albany, September, 1847.

ART. IV. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of New and Beautiful Plants figured in Foreign Periodicals; with Descriptions of those recently introduced to, or originated in, American Gardens.

Mr. Beck's new Pelargoniums of 1847.-Last winter, (p. 41,) we presented our readers with an article on the Cultivation of the Pelargonium, and, at the same time, gave a full description of his seedlings, of 1845 and 1846, and which were the leading kinds exhibited the past season at the London exhibitions. We now present a full description of his newest seedlings, which have not yet been exhibited only by himself, and which attracted universal admiration at the May and June shows of the London Horticultural Society. They are offered for sale, young plants to be delivered in October 1847, at £1 11s. 6d. sterling each :

CENTURION. A flower of moderate size; deep rosy purple under petals, with a blotch on each; centre white, with richcolored top petals; prolific bloomer, and excellent habit.

CRUENTA. A high-colored flower, with broad under petals of a rich crimson salmon color; top petals deeper in tone, with a large blotch terminating abruptly in the centre, which is white; particularly stout habit.

CAVALIER. A remarkably bright flower; lower petals of a delicate salmon color; a scarlet hue pervades the top petals, which have a deep blotch, and are velvety in texture; a very constant and prolific bloomer, very distinct, and an excellent flower for exhibiting, though of feeble habit, and with parsleyshaped foliage.

CASSANDRA.-Dark maroon upper petals one mass of color, except a narrow clean bright margin; lower petals light pink; free bloomer, and good habit.

GULIELMA.-A very smooth, constant, and well-shaped variety; a deep lilac purple spot shades off to the margin of the upper petals; the lower ones are of a lighter color, with a clean white eye; excellent habit and bloomer.

GUSTAVUS.-Striking flower; upper petals very dark maroon blotch, with deep rose edge; lower ones rose ground, with whitish eye deeply veined down to the centre; good habit, free bloomer, and constant.

HONORA. A round, moderate-sized flower, very clean pinkish white lower petals, with steady purple maroon spot upon the upper ones, leaving a well-defined margin; not a free bloomer or strong habit.

ROSAMUND.-A novel variety, of a general rich rosy purple, with striking white eye, fine dark spot terminating well at the base of the petals, and shading gradually off to the margin; good habit, free bloomer, and constant.

BLANCHE.-Large pinkish white flower, with well-defined dark spot, broad petals, but not smooth on the edges; abundant bloomer, and good habit.

GRANDIFLORA.—A thin, large, good-shaped, constant variety, rosy-scarlet lower petals, the upper ones of a deeper color, with dark crimson spot veining off to the edge and throat.

Anemone japónica.-This very beautiful plant is now in bloom in our collection, and it is a fine acquisition to our stock of late flowering perennials. A young plant imported last February, has grown so rapidly as to fill a pot ten inches in diameter, and, during the whole of October, it has been one of the finest objects of the conservatory. It grows about fifteen inches high, with a neat anemone-like foliage, and the pale rosy flowers, which are semi-double, and rise on tall stems, are exceedingly showy. Throughout the summer, it has been placed in the open air.

Céstrum aurantiacum is also now flowering in the stove, where its panicles of deep yellow, tubular blossoms are highly ornamental, especially at this season of the year, when there are but few yellow flowers. The plants have been kept in the greenhouse all summer, and, now brought into a little

higher temperature, the flowers are developed in all their beauty.

Calystègia pubescens.-This beautiful plant, which wer have already described, (p. 358,) and which has recently flowered in our collection, will probably prove a most valuable summer flowering plant. M. Van Houtte states that the mere figure of the plant does not give scarcely any idea of the "floral luxury which is developed under good culture. The little roots or rhizomes were left in the open ground, only protected with a good covering of leaves, and this year they flourished in a most remarkable inanner. The branches were more than six feet long, and much ramified, gracefully twining round the branches of trees which had been placed in the form of a hedge, and entirely covering them with their leaves. They flowered splendidly all summer, and were, as late as Sept. 15th, covered with a multitude of blossoms, much larger in size, and more brilliant in coloring, than the English figure. The flowers are quite full and double, of a beautiful rose, and, in their form, resemble large, irregular roses, which have been fixed upon the stem of a Convolvulus. Experience proves that it will be a fine acquisition to summer flowering plants in the open air." From the success which has attended the culture of Ipomæas in the open ground, we suspected that the Calystègia would thrive well; but it has hitherto been rather too rare to spare the plants for this purpose. Another year, we shall try M. Van Houtte's plan.-Ed.

33. THIBAU'DIA PULCHERRIMA Wallich Beautiful Thibaudia. (Vacciniaceae)

A greenhouse shrub ; growing four to six feet high; with yellow and scarlet flowers ; appearing in winter; a native of India; increased by cuttings; grown in heath soil and loam. Flore des Berres, pl 243. 1847.

A very showy and beautiful shrub, attaining the height of four or five feet, with branches clothed with immense clusters of yellow and scarlet tubular flowers, somewhat resembling the larger heaths. The flowers appear only on the two year old wood, in pendent fascicles of from twelve to twenty each, in all the stages of development, and, from their peculiar striated aspect, present a remarkably gay appearance. It was found in the north of India, by Dr. Wallich, and it has recently been introduced to England by Messrs. Luconibe,