The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . day plants. Though notso elegant as the Kossisea linophylla, noted veryrecently in these columns, the light green flat-wingedbranches studded with pea-shaped flowers, orange-yellow and dark red-brown, are not without a certainshare of beauty, apart from their strangeness. A appearance of the plant, give it a remarkable resem-blance to some of the Rosaceas but as a matter offact it is a member of the Saxifrage family. The White Hawthorn. — Unless some old traditions are next winter to receive a rudesho
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . day plants. Though notso elegant as the Kossisea linophylla, noted veryrecently in these columns, the light green flat-wingedbranches studded with pea-shaped flowers, orange-yellow and dark red-brown, are not without a certainshare of beauty, apart from their strangeness. A appearance of the plant, give it a remarkable resem-blance to some of the Rosaceas but as a matter offact it is a member of the Saxifrage family. The White Hawthorn. — Unless some old traditions are next winter to receive a rudeshock we ought in proper sequence to have one ofextreme cold. If it is not so to be, why all the vastpreparation being made by Nature for the provisionof food for the feathered tribe? Can the oldestinhabitant of these isles (a somewhat apocryphalbut not the less possible being) remember in any pastspring, however remote, a more luxuriant bloomupon the Hawthorn than is everywhere seen now ?The hedgerows that have, thanks to the survival ofsome good sense, not yet been levelled to the ground. Fig. 133.—hengrave hall, Suffolk, (see r. 723.) this species does not stand the winter in the open,but it makes a charming evergreen bush for coolconservatory decoration. Neviusa aladamensis.—a curious shrub is now in bloom in the Rosaceous bed at Kew. It isa Spir»a-like bush, with leafy, sharply-toothed sepalsand white stamens, but no petals. As a curiosity, itis worth a place in a wilderness walk. The American Crae Apple, Pyrus coro- naria, deserves special mention if only on account ofits being such a late flowerer. In the Kew Arboretumevery olhertrue Pyrus has long been out ofbloom, whilstthe subject of the present note is at this time in fullbeauty. It has large violet-scented, rose-colouredblossoms, which are followed by fragrant greenishfruits. LoupoN states that the decaying foliage in specimen is now flowering in the Winter Gardenat Kew. Stigmaphyllum ciliatum.—In the Palm-hou
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