PLANTS WORTH IMPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 8, 13 November 1883, Page 3

PLANTS WORTH IMPORTING.

T«e 1 Melbourne Leader' contains a number of note* on "plants that ar* worth importing," from which we make the following selections Heliotrope Rio de Noirs is the darkest colored variety yet seen. Its dense head* of bloom are of intensely deep purple, and their perfume also seams to be intensified compared with paler kinds, It may be obtained from Messrs Veitch,

Hydrangea rosea, a naw Japanese species. Baid to bo undoubtedly one of the bast noveltiea in plants that have been exhibited in London this year, It resembles the common H. Hortensia, but is more slender in growth and has smaller foliage, The branchea are terminated by large dense heads of of flowers, all sterile, as in the ordinary form of H. Hortensia. These flowers are of a lovely rose.pink, so clear and pleasing an to win the admiration of everyone who sees them, Messrs Veitch were awarded a first class certificate for the plant by the Royal Horticultural Society of London. The Nectarine Peach la another variety of large else from Sawbridgeworth ; it Is said to do a first rate late variety, It has a smooth Nectarine like skin, and colors highly. The Sea Eagle Peach is one of the handsomest of peaches, somewhat in tho way of the Princess of Wales, another of the Sawbridgeworth seedlings of Messrs Rivers, It is very Urge, somewhat pule in color, of high flavor, and unquestionably one of tho best peachea grown. It is finding favor everywhere in Britain, and some of the best fruit growers esteem it highly. Bloomsdale Pearl Onion is a variety attaining an immense site. D. Landreth and Sone, Philadelphia, sent three bulbs to the American Gardener's Monthly, that had been grown in Mississippi from sets furnished by them, which were planted on Bth November, and the mature onions pulled on 12th April. Each of the bulbs measured 19 inches in circumference, and the three weighed 41b 14oz. They state that “no variety they have ever seen is so rapid in development. The flesh is pure white, translucent, very delicate, and eo free from astringent oil that the bulbs may be eaten uncooked as freely as apples. Owing to the precocious character of the sets, they cannot well be kept for spring planting.” They thrive in the warmer States of the Unionsouth of the Susquehanna—and therefore would be likely to succeed in this oilmate. The editor endorses all that was said of them.

Monoohctum enslferum iz a bright flower that deserves.the attention of cultivators. It always flowers at the beginning of the year when most wanted, and it is of easy culture in an ordinary greenhouse. It is of dwarf shrubby growth, and produces an abundance of reddish purple blossoms between one inch and two inches across. Another similar and quite as desirable species is M. serioeum, differing from the preceding ny its leaves being covered with a silky down. Both are largely grown in the Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea.