The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Gaultheria (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 56, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

G. nummularioides (Moneywort-like). fl. resembling those of the Lily of the Valley, but frequently tinged rosy-pink, axillary. Summer. fr. scarlet. l. roundish, deep green, changing in autumn to dull rose, ciliated on the margins. Stems wiry, sub-prostrate. Himalayas, 1884. An ornamental, hardy evergreen, suitable for baskets. (G. C. n. s., xxii., p. 457.)

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