U THE GARDENER. [Jan. 



Gibbii — a Davallia, not yet named, from Borneo, a very handsome Fern. 

 Marattia Cooperii, a very distinct Fern. Davallia liemiptera, also pretty. 



Arancaria elcgans, a pretty plant and hardy. 



Hedaroma fimbriata, a pretty pink greenhouse plant. Thybordina 

 arcuniinata covers a greenhouse wall with pretty flowers like- Erica 

 aristata. A very neat-growing plant from Japan is Retinospora fili- 

 coides. 



^Uliantum Farleyensis is a Fern with beautifully-cut leaves. 



Amongst many beautiful Orchids the following struck us as worthy 

 of note : Catleya exonienses, flowers large, colours purple, yellow, 

 and white. A hybrid Cypripedium between villosum and barbatum, 

 very distinct. A hybrid between Calanthe vestita alba and Phagus 

 grandiflora, besides which we saw many other hybrids not yet bloomed. 

 ^'Erides Huttonii is pink, self-coloured, and very pretty. 



These are all noteworthy plants that may with advantage be added 

 to any collection. 



YELLOW PEACHES. 



In "Notes on New Varieties of Fruits" which appeared in last 

 month's ' Gardener,' Mr Sliortt includes Dr Hogg and a Bee among 

 yellow-fleshed Peaches, which is a mistake. I have grown both of 

 these ; the former I got from Mr Rivers, and they are both of them 

 white-fleshed. Dr Hogg is one of the handsomest Peaches I ever saw, 

 being very large and highly coloured, and the flesh sprightly and 

 deliciously flavoured j indeed, taking size and flavour into consider- 

 ation, I do not know any other sort to equal it. It ripens with me in 

 the beginning of August. 



I do not agree with Mr Shortt in his estimate of the Royal Ascot 

 Grape, which I have also grown. I think it a first-rate variety, and 

 a valuable addition to our collections. J. G. B. 



LIVERPOOL CHRYSATTTHBMUM AND FRUIT SHOW. 



This exhibition took place in St George's Hall on the 25th and 26th of Novem- 

 ber last, and was, by impartial and competent judges, considered the most splen- 

 didwinter display of fruit and flowers ever seen. The Chrysanthemums, whether 

 as regarded the size of the individual blooms or the magnificence of the specimens, 

 were quite unique. Liverpool has made Chrysanthemum-growing a perfect spe- 

 cialty — so much so, that Mr Broome, the celebrated Chrysanthemum-grower of 

 the Temple Gardens, London, pays an annual visit to Liverpool on the occasion 

 of these Shows to look after his .laurels. 



