The journal of the Horticultural Society of London . thuses prove to be hardy near London. It is only requisitethat they should not be placed in soil which keeps them growingtill late in the year, but that their wood should be well the Botanical Magazine Sir Wm. Hooker, in speaking , observes that— The North-west American Ceano-thuses are particularly deserving of cultivation in the openground; but it may require a Devonshire climate to bring themto the state in which they are at Bishopstowe, as just announcedto me in a letter, dated 27th May, 1852, of the Bishop of Exete
The journal of the Horticultural Society of London . thuses prove to be hardy near London. It is only requisitethat they should not be placed in soil which keeps them growingtill late in the year, but that their wood should be well the Botanical Magazine Sir Wm. Hooker, in speaking , observes that— The North-west American Ceano-thuses are particularly deserving of cultivation in the openground; but it may require a Devonshire climate to bring themto the state in which they are at Bishopstowe, as just announcedto me in a letter, dated 27th May, 1852, of the Bishop of Exeter. The Ceanothus divaricatus is now in its highest beauty: thelargest plant is eighteen feet high, eighteen feet wide, twelvefeet deep {i. e. from back to front), covered with thousands ofthe beautiful thyrsoid flowers, so that the leaves are hardly rigidus blossomed about six weeks ago ; C. dentatus is nowin full flower ; C. papillosus is just coming into flower ;C. azureus will not blossom before August. FROM THE SOCIKTYS GARDEN. 277. Ceanothus verrucosus. 278 NEW PLANTS, liTC , 11. LoPEZiA MACKOrHYLLA. Plu/ichou, in Flore des Serves, , t. 23, p. 177. Jehlia fuchsioides. Hort. Germ. Received from Messrs. Riuz, of Frankfort, in April, 1852. Tliis is a soft smooth pale green slirub, with a fleshy tuberousroot, like some Fuchsias. The leaves are stalked, almost whollysmooti), oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, nanowed to the base,where they terminate abruptly in a rounded manner, stronglyserrated, and furnished witli deep lateral diverging veins, whichgive the leaves tlie appearance of a Hornbeam trees ; at the basethey are furnished with a pair of red pyranndal short flowers stand on long slender stalks, singly in the axils ofleaves, are as laige as those of a Fuchsia globosa, and of a veryileep rose colour, which pervades every part except the anther,winch is blue. At first siglit this plant would not be taken for a Lopezia, thesepals being altogether
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