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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



[ February 



requires to be kept moderately moist, using rain-water which has been standing 

 in a water-pot near the hot-water pipes, or on them if possible. The water used 

 ought always to be warmer than the atmosphere ; I use it at about 75° or 80°, 

 but an experienced cultivator only requires to dip his finger in the water to know 

 whether it is of the required temperature. 



The plant has beautiful and effective dark green leaves, which can occasion- 

 ally, and without difficulty, be sponged over as the best means to free it from 

 dust. The brilliant scarlet spathes, with their curiously twisted worm-like 

 spadices, mark it out as a species which will long be retained in cultivation. 



Loxford Hall. J. Douglas. 



DKEDGE'S FAME APPLE. 



|EEDGE'S Fame, an Apple which I have closely watched for the last ten 

 or a dozen years, has proved with me such a constant and good cropper, 

 and is possessed of so many other excellent qualities, that I do not hesi- 

 tate thus prominently to recommend it. 

 In habit the tree has a neat, bushy, compact, tree-like appearance, when 

 grown with a single stem. The growth is dense, and the young wood stiff, 



strong, and very short-jointed. The flowers are borne upon very short stalks in 

 dense bunches, always plentifully, and generally a few days later than such sorts 

 as Waltham Abbey Seedling, and Cox's Orange Pippin. The tree has one very 

 distinct and commendable peculiarity, which is, that it very rarely fails to set a 

 superabundant crop of healthy fruit, and always succeeds in " thinning out " its 

 own crop to the required number. The fruits are uniformly large, clear-skinned, 

 and firm, keeping well up to March. 



