106 THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. [May, 



James Richards. — Vigorous; leaves yellow with dark zone, effective ; flowers bold scarlet, 

 free. 1st class. 



Master Leonard. — Neat and moderately vigorous habit ; leaves painted, yellow-green, 

 flaked here and there with dark-green, and having a broad and well-defined zone of reddish 

 brown, shaded with darker brown ; flowers deep red. 1st class. 



***** Leaves with golden margin, more or less green in the disc. 



Lady Cullum. — Free and moderately vigorous ; leaves yellow-edged, with broad, deep-red 

 zone. 1st class. 



Mrs. E. S. Constable. — Free and moderately vigorous ; leaves with yellow margin and 

 dark-red zone. 1st class. 



Mis. Pollock. — Vigorous ; leaves bold, flat, yellow-edged, with dark-red zone, very effec- 

 tive ; flowers scarlet. 1st class confirmed. 



Mrs. Turner. — Vigorous ; leaves large, with broad yellow edge, and broad zone of bright 

 dark red ; telling. 1st class. 



Queen Victoria. — Moderately vigorous ; leaves large, flat, yellow-edged, with distinct red 

 zone ; flowers scarlet ; very effective. 1st class. 



****** Leaves with silver margin, more or less green in the disc. 



Glen Eyre Beauty. — Vigorous ; leaves with creamy margin, and broad showy red zone ; in 

 the early part of the season superior to Italia Unita. 1st class. 



Italia Unita. — Moderately vigorous spreading habit ; leaves creamy white, with distinct 

 rosy-pink zone ; flowers scarlet. 1st class. 



Velvet Cushion. — Moderately vigorous ; leaves flat, with green centre, creamy margin, 

 and well-marked deep rosy zone ; very pretty. 1st class. 



§ IV. — Leaves Angulate (P. peltatum, lateripes, &c). 

 VElegante. — A variegated ivy-leaved variety of trailing habit, and likely to form a pretty 

 edging or basket plant. 1st class. 



THE CALVILLE BLANC APPLE. 



)OUE correspondent "C. B. S.," in giving his opinion (p. 77) on the merits 

 of this favourite French Apple, seems to condemn it for getting discoloured 

 and rotten at the core sooner than other late-keeping sorts. This is- 

 not my experience with it this year, for it has kept with me very 



well, being at this date (April 10) quite sound, and likely to keep so for 



another month. " C. B. S." has another fault to chronicle about it, namely. 



that it is too dear in the market according to its merit ; but he may have 



heard of the distich, — 



" What is the worth of anything, 

 But just as much as it will bring ?" 



The French are quite right in sending us fine specimens of this apple, and if 

 they get 2s. a-piece for them at this time, what does it matter, if the public 

 will buy them and give the price ? I would rather give 2s. for a nice Calville 

 Blanc Apple, than a guinea for a monster Belle Angevine Pear, at this season. 

 There is something so delicious in the flavour of the White Calville Apple, and 

 its flesh is so soft and melting, that invalids, or people with bad teeth, can enjoy 

 eating it, as it seems to dissolve in the mouth without much mastication. I 

 grant that some of the fine dessert varieties of English and American Apples 

 have more flavour and aroma, but take the leathery skin and hard flesh of the 

 Eibstone Pippin, Sykehouse Russet, or Golden Harvey, and compare them with 



