JANUARY. 25 



Rendle's Price Current. 

 Not long since it was the custom with seedsmen to issue long and 

 uninteresting lists of seeds, merely giving the names only, without 

 further assisting the purchaser by any information respecting them. 

 Mr. Rendle was, we believe, the first to step out of the beaten track, 

 and the " Price Current " has now become a complete garden book, 

 and that, too, of a very pleasing and instructive character. This season 

 it is published uniform with "The Florist,'' and contains 120 pages of 

 close letterpress, including an almanac, a descriptive catalogue of seeds, 

 in which will be found a mass of very useful information, particularly 

 to those who are not proficients at gardening ; some very useful hints 

 on the culture of annuals by Mr. Errington ; a monthly calendar of 

 operations that should be carried out in the kitchen garden for the 

 whole year ; an article on floriculture by Mr. John Edwards, and 

 information on various other subjects. The " Price Current " is a 

 multum in parm gardening book, and one we heartily commend to the 

 perusal of all who have a garden. 



DRYMONIA VILLOSA. 



This is a rather pretty new Gesneraceous plant, with good sized white 

 flowers stained in the throat with purple, and lined outside the tube with 

 the same colour. It is stated in the " Botanical Magazine " to have 

 been received from Mr. Low, of Clapton, under the above name. It is 

 reported to have been introduced by one of Mr. Van Houtte's collectors 

 fi-om Surinam. It appears a very distinct species, remarkable for the 

 thick woolly coat with which it is covered. It is a sub-herbaceous 

 rather leaty plant, which grows a foot or a foot and a half high. 



THE NEW DAHLIAS. 



In compliance with the request made in our last number, we have been 

 favoured with returns from eight gentlemen, who are well-known 

 growers of the Dahlia, and which is the result of their observations 

 made at the principal exhibitions during the last autumn. These lists 

 will be found both interesting and instructive ; and, to be more readily 

 understood, they are arranged in a tabular form. There are twenty 

 varieties enumerated, each having their admirers in a more or less 

 degree. 



It appears that seven kinds have been returned by each ; this alone 

 must place them very high. They must also have been seen pretty 

 frequently to be known by so many growers. Two have been returned 

 by seven, one has six votes, two five ; five has two, and four one vote 

 each only. 



As to those that are placed highest on the list, Bessie appears to 

 be greatly the favourite, having but one " No. 2 " placed against it. 



