This is a plant about to make a sensation in the horticultural world. A scarlet larkspur! Rara avis, that is to say, the phoenix of the genus. Surely we need not despair of a blue rose.

The Delphinium cardinale, by its original color, being well worthy of its name, is, besides, very elegant in appearance and form. It is an annual. Its simple, straight stem, of the height of from two to three feet, ends in a long panicle of flowers, of the liveliest vermilion color. The. radical leaves are very large, and borne on long petioles, and deeply divided in five cuneiform segments, divided themselves into two or three narrow lobes. This fine species is one of the numerous happy discoveries of the collector, William Lobb, in his voyage to California. It is probable it is a native of the mountains in the interior of the country, where the members of the many scientific expeditions of the United States of America seem to have met with it. Cultivated in the first place by MM. Veitch, of Exeter, and Chelsea, it flourished perfectly in the open air, in August, 1855. - Flore des Serres.

Weigela Coraeensis

Weigela Coraeensis, Thunberg in Trans. Linn. Society, 77. 331; alias W. amabilis, Planchon in Fl. des Serres, VIII. t. 855. Bot. Mag., t. 4893; alias Diervilla grandiflora, Sieb, and Zucc. Fl. Japonica, I. t. 31 - Why this plant, perfectly well-figured in the Icones Kaempferianae, should have received the garden name of amabilis, we are unable to explain. Nor do we see how it is to be distinguished from the Diervilla grandiflora of Siebold and Zuccarini. In some respects it much resembles W. rosea, but differs from it, firstly, in its more reticulated leaves, crisp edge of the corolla, and brighter color; and, secondly, in the very important garden quality of flowering in the autumn, when we have nothing like it among hardy shrubs. We have now (Oct. 8) a specimen before us loaded with most brilliant, deep, rose-colored flowers, trailing (for it is not much of a bush) over a peat border among Rhododendrons, and uncommonly handsome it is. In our judgment, it is, beyond all comparison, the best autumnal shrub after the rose. - Gardener's Chronicle.