Kniphofia, Ortritoma Uvaria

Dear Sir, - With this I send you a cut specimen of this plant, which has been so much praised in the English journals. I think you will say that the special premium awarded it by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society last month, is well merited. I believe it is very nearly or quite hardy. It is a very free bloomer in the open border. I have an idea that when more common, it will be as popular a summer and fall-blooming plant, as the Dielytra spectabilis is now for the spring. (If hardy, it is valuable, and certainly very beautiful. - Ed).

I also hand you a specimen of the Spires Billardii, with flowers as deep in color as S. cal-loea; with a piece of the white S. salicifolia, from which it was, I presume, raised.

Not to cloy you with sweets, however, I also send a bloom of the Clematis revoluta, a herbaceous species, rising about two feet, and flowering very freely. Thos. Meehan.

Germantoum.

L. S., Galesbury, ILL. Cassia Chamacrista

It does not often choose a wet soil. In a flower-garden, it would probably do well in a very poor ground. It usually grows in soil formed of rotten rocks.

La Bella Egame, Or Madame Damet

Rosy lilac, beautifully cupped. A neat, pleasing variety.

La Caucask Currant

Mr. Wilder informs us that this currant, referred to in our last issue, proves to be identical with La Versaillaise. Measurements of the size may be found in the 24th volume of Hovey's Magazine, p. 374. We regard these large berries, however, as exceptional, and not general. Under the ordinary treatment received by the currant, we must adopt a lower standard; but such cases are notwithstanding valuable, as showing what can be done under the best culture, which we should all aim at.

La Heine

Brilliant glossy rose color; very large; cupped and beautiful.

La Juive

The tree is handsome and vigorous, suitable for forming a pyramid.

Fruit-middle-sized turbinate. Stalk-nearly an inch in length inserted in a cavity.

Skin - smooth, yellowish-green, marbled with green and brown, red next the sun. Flesh - very fine, melting, sugary, and highly perfumed. Season - November. Bore for the first time in 1843. This first-rate Pear was obtained by Major Esperen.

Labels

Wooden labels for plants to be inserted in the ground, may, it is said, be preserved for an indefinite time by first dipping them into a solution of one part vitriol and twenty-four parts water, and subsequently immersing in lime water, or a solution of gypsum.

Labels For Trees

Zinc labels are prepared in the following manner: Take half a drachm of lampblack, one drachm of verdigris, one drachm of pulverized sal ammoniac, and dissolve them in ten drachms of water. This will form a permanent ink, which may be used for writing upon strips of zinc, and will last as long as the labels.

Lachenalia Aurea. Nat. Ord. Asphodeleae

The Horticultural Society purchased this beautiful species of a collector, who discovered it in Natal. It first bloomed in the greenhouse at Chiswick, last spring. It is remarkable for the length of time it remains in flower, a much longer period than any other of this much-neglected genus; although the Lachenalia is of as easy a culture as the Hyacinth and other spring bulbs, we very seldom meet with them in the greenhouse. The numerous broad flaccid leaves, which are a lively green, slightly mottled with purple, fall back upon the ground, and the scapes, which are of the same mottled colors, rise erect to the height of near two feet, profusely laden with its brilliant golden yellow tubular flowers. The individual blooms are much larger than those of L. tricolor (the most common species), and are of a firm waxy substance. This species deserves to be in every greenhouse. - Gard. Chron.