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Frame ; for general use, Beck's Scarlet Short Top, Scarlet Olive-shaped, White 

 Olive-shaped. 



Rhubarb.— Dancer's Early Scarlet, Myatt's Victoria, Mitchell's Royal Albert. 



Spinach. — All the sorts in cultivation are good, but the most delicious for lovers 

 of spinach are Round-seeded, for sowing in spring, and Prickly-seeded, for sovvino- 

 in summer and autumn. Spinach Beet is very productive, and lasts the whole 

 season. New Zealand Spinach is a fine vegetable for hot dry soils. Lee's Giant 

 Orach is a coarse but useful kind. 



Turnip.— To sow in spring, Early White Strap-leaved, Short Top Six-weeks, 

 Polly's Nonsuch ; to sow in summer, American Stone, Beck's Golden Stone, and 

 White Dutch; to sow in autumn, jersey Navet, Green Top Six- weeks, Chirk 

 Castle. 



Potatoes. — Myatt's Ashleaf, Haigh's Kidney, Baron's Perfection, Flour-ball, 

 Milky White, Wellington, Paterson's Victoria, Sutton's Berkshire Kidney. 



Vegetable Marrow. — The most delicate and elegant is Hibberd's Prolific ; the 

 best for cottage gardens is Large Cream ; a good but ugly sort is Prince Albert. 



THE BEST FUCHSIAS OF 1868. 



Model (Banks).— The best single dark Fuchsia out. 



Striata Perfecta (Banks). — A fine striped flower, showy and vigorous. 



Try me (Banks). — A perfect little gem, and the best single dark for small 

 conservatories, for beds, and for market. 



Glowworm (Banks). — New colour, like Magenta satin, rather thin in texture. 



Lord Derby (Banks). — Surpasses Enoch Arden.. 



Starlight (Bull). — The best light Fuchsia in cultivation. 



Lustre (Bull). — White sepals, and vivid crimson corolla; a grand exhibition 

 variety. 



Favourite (Bull). — Cup-shaped white corolla, scarlet sepals ; a lovely stnslll- 

 growing variety. 



White Perfection (E. G. Henderson). — Sepals, white ; corolla, magenta-colouieJ. 

 The finest Fuchsia of its class. 



Blue Boy (Turner). — A truly gorgeous double flower, the corolla a true cobalt 

 blue. 



Jolly (Felton and Holliday). — An improvement on Fair Oriana. 



Striped Unique (G. Smith). — Bold and showy, with scarlet sepals, and double 

 purple corolla ; one of the finest of its class. 



NEW PLANTS. 



lllISTOLOCHIA FLORIBUNDA, Many -flowered Birihwort (Dlllust. 

 Mort., t. 568). — A beautiful Brazilian species, of comparatively small 

 growth. The leaves are cordate, the flowers have a pale green tube 

 and a two-lobed limb, richly blotched with maroon upon a ground of 

 deep pink. 



Triteleia porrifolia (Gard. Chron., 1868, p. 990).— Liliacea?. A pretty 

 little bulbous plant, lately re-introduced from Chili. The bulb is oblong, and the 

 leaves resemble those of the chives. The flower-stalks average a foot in height, 

 and the campanulate-shaped flowers are light blue. 



Odontoglossum cristatcm (Gard. Chron., 1868, p. 101-1).— Orchidaceae. 

 Several good varieties of this fine odontoglot have been lately introduced by M. 

 Linden. Canaria, sepals and petals canary yellow, with a blotch of purple on each, 

 and white lip. Argus, bright yellow, speckled with purple. Dayanum, has yellow 

 flowers, spotted with purple like the species, but rather different in shape. 



Lilium Wilsoni.— Liliaceae. This at first was considered a variety of Thun- 

 bergianum, but M. Leichtlin, who is a great authority on lilies, suggests that as it 

 differs so considerably from the true Thunberghnum, it should bear the name of 

 Wilsoni. It grows from three to four feet high, has smooth, lanceolate acute leaves, 

 and bears a great branched umbel of flowers, which are large, of a reddish-orange 

 colour, dotted with dark spots, and have a golden band down each segment. 



