This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...health We are sorry for its long name. Why not call it at once Claggett's Variegated or the "Claggett." Latin names are bad enough for species, although we cannot do without them there, but they serve no useful purpose whatever in a garden variety.--Ed. New Bouvardias--Attention is being given in England to the improvement of these beautiful winter blooming flowers. The following are some that have just been introduced: Alba Odorata.--This is a valuable addition to the group, differing from B. longiflora in its more compact and vigorous, yet dwarf, habit, also in its greater profusion and longer continuance of bloom The flower trusses are large, with pure white petals of great substance, and very richly fragrant, the snowy whiteness of the lobes forming an elegant contrast with the rose-tinted trumpet like flower tubes. Bridal Wreath.--This fine hybrid Bouvardia is recognized from its allied forms by the peculiar greyish, or white-tinted stems, and obscurely hairy or pilose leaf margins; in other features it is free, vigorous and compact in growth, inter mediate between B. longiflora and B. jasmin-i flora. The bloom is produced freely in lare cymose clusters of snow-white flower-lobes, broader than any other in its section; delightfully fragrant, and fading off with a delicate carmine tint. The greater width of its petals and large racemes of bloom, render it a very effective plant for late autumn and winter flower groups. Queen of Rases.--A very beautiful variety in the colored group of Bouvardias, and the first known with fragrant colored flowers, producing large terminal branching clusters of pure bright rosy-pink trumpet-like blossoms, on crimson tinted flower tubes. Its neat, vigorous, and freely branched growth yields a long succession of bl...