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specimen wlien trained over a trellis as a pot plant, or planted out so as to 

 furnish a pillar or a rafter in a hothouse. The Messrs. Veitch and Sons have 

 introduced it from Brazil. — T. Moore. 



EAELY BEATEICE PEACH. 



'HIS is such a really valuable peach that a few words in its favour to those 

 who are unacquainted with it may be acceptable. It is one of the seed- 

 lings of Mr. Elvers, from whom I got it direct amongst a lot of others in 

 pots, and it has turned out one of the most useful on account of its 

 earliness. This is the second year I have gathered from two trees before 

 April was out, it being this year the 25 th of April when I gathered the first three 

 ripe. The fact that it is, though small, such a rosy-cheeked variety makes it 

 valuable, and the flavour, moreover, is good for one so early. The Early Rivers^ 

 though quite as early, is not so desirable, on account of its sickly paleness, — 

 entirely void of colour, — while the Early Beatrice^ under the same conditions, is 

 all a-glowing. It is a good setter, a good grower, and one which, though perhaps 

 not proof against all diseases, is nevertheless cleanly inclined. I look on the 

 Early Beatrice Peach now as quite indispensable to our varied, though far too 

 limited, spring dishes of fruits ; and I think Mr. Eivers deserves special thanks 

 from all lovers of the peach — peach growers and peach eaters — for such a great 

 acquisition to our early forced fruits. One of the two trees referred to I planted 

 out in an early house, and this had two or three dishes of nice fruit on it. The 

 one in pot matured to perfection thirty-eight. Though apparently quite at home 

 in a pot, yet I look on the planted-out one for our future supply. — H. Knight, 

 Floors, Kelso. 



GARDEN LITERATURE. 



yNE of the most important of recent publications affecting the classification 

 of plants, and in this way bearing upon Garden Botany, is Mrs. Hooker's 

 translation of Le Maout's and Decaisne's General System of Botany,* 

 edited by Dr. Hooker. The reputation of the authors and of the editor 

 would be sufficient of itself to stamp it as a work of authority indispensable to 

 the work-table of every active botanist. The original French edition was issued 

 in 1868, and the present translation differs from it mainly in the sequence of 

 the Natural Orders, and in the introduction in the proper places of certain smaller 

 orders, some twenty-four in number, which were omitted in the original. It is in the 

 second part of the work that its great value consists. This portion comprises a 

 clear and precise account of the structure and morphology of each order, 

 accompanied by a sketch of its affinities, its geographical distribution, and its 

 principal uses in medicine and the arts, the whole being profusely illustrated by 



* A Oeiieral System of Botany, Descriptive and Analytical. In Two Parts. I. Outlines of Organography, 

 Anatomy, and Physiology. II. Descriptions and Illustrations of the Orders. By Emm. Le Maout and J. 

 Decaisne. With 5,500 Figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the Original by Mrs. 

 Hooker. With an Appendix by J. D. Hooker, C.B. London : Longmans. 1873. 



