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that we only reproduce it in the assurance that 

 the original bearer of the name would have 

 smiled at the incongruity of the epithets : — 



"John Stuart J////;— Bright clear red, large, full 

 and beautiful form, of great substance; well 

 adapted for exhibition purposes, being also of 

 strong constitution and free habit. Quite dis- 

 tinct. 



" Last comes a clergyman, himself a distin- 

 guished rosarian, and we hope his parishioners 

 recognize the portrait : — 



''Rev. J. B. M. Cainm: — Very bright rosy pink, 

 most pleasing color, large, very full, and tine glo- 

 bular form ; very sweet, constant, and thoroughly 

 distinct; growth vigorous. 



" The moral touch, ' very sweet and constant,' 

 is peculiarly appropriate to a clergyman, and 

 will perhaps reconcile his admirers to the allu- 

 sion to what some might deem the physical de- 

 fects of a rosy pink complexion and a too globu- 

 lar form." 



White Bedding Pansies. — In my trial bed of 

 bedding pansies this year I find that Hooper's 

 Great Eastern and Dean's Snowflake carry off 

 the palm from all others, both in purity of color 

 and continuity of blooming. In the white sec- 

 tion a tendency to blue is very observable, espe- 

 cially amongst kinds that are qualified to rank 

 amongst show Pansies, and where this defect is 

 apparent the usefulness is greatly detracted from. 

 There is. too, a common notion prevalent that 

 any Pansy will do for a bedder if it be of the re- 

 quired color, but that is a greatly mistaken no- 

 tion. Bedding pansies are none the more useful 

 or effective for having large flowers. It is rather 

 the quantity that is desired, and plants that pro- 

 duce medium-sized blooms and maintain a con- 

 stant succession by continually throwing up 

 young growth from the base are best suited for 

 bedding purposes. The purest white flowers are 

 got out of the German strains ; but they are 

 very thin and uneven, and the growth is long 

 and straggling. I am, however, this year using 

 blooms of soine of the best of these to fertilize 

 Snowflake, in the hope of throwing even greater 

 purity into that variety, and should I succeed in 

 that respect, and still keep its excellent robust 

 habit, we shall then get a most valuable variety. 

 — D. B., in Gardener's Weekly. 



J^EW PLANTS. 



DOUBLE-FLO^\^RED LiLIUM AURATUM. — At a 



meeting of the Central Horticultural Society of 



France, held on the 11th of last September, M. 

 Duchartre read a letter from M. Boisgiraud, of 

 Tours, in which that gentleman stated that, 

 amongst the plants of Lilium auratum in his gar- 

 den, one had produced double flowers. This 

 makes the fourth species of Lily which has pro- 

 duced a double-ftowered variety, the others being 

 L tigrinum, L. candidum, and L. Thunber- 

 gianum. 



EuoxYMUs FLAVESCENS. — Introduced by Veitch 

 from Japan ; the best yellow bedding plant, har- 

 dy for winter gardening. 



Pell.ea orkithopus. — An interesting and dis- 

 tinct Fern from California. Fronds glaucous- 

 green, rigid, erect, from 9 to 12 inches high, 

 bipinnate ; the secondary pinna? all trifoliate, ex- 

 cept the ultimate ones, which are simple and 

 solitary. The pinnules are so formed and ar- 

 ranged in the trifoliate pinnae as to resemble the 

 claws of the foot of a small bird, each terminated 

 with a distinct mucro. Stipes and rachis dark 

 purplish. Received direct from collector, and 

 exhibited by us under the name of P. mucronata 

 before the Royal Horticultural Society, when it 

 was much admired, and was awarded a first- 

 class certificate. — Veitch. 



Mr. Lee's New Violet, Prince Consort, sur- 

 passes in size, depth of color, and fragrance, all 

 the varieties we are acquainted with in the valua- 

 ble section of violets it represents. A boxful of 

 the blooms were in our office a fortnight, and at 

 the end of the term were still recognizable as 

 noble violets, though time had robbed them of 

 their freshness. Their unusually large size and 

 great substance are strikingly characteristic, and 

 justify Mr. Lee's declaration that his Prince Con- 

 sort is " the finest violet out." — Gardener's Maga- 

 zine. 



Bambusa argentea striata. — This handsome 

 Japanese plant has been received from Dr. Regel, 

 of St. Petersburgh, under the name above quoted. 

 Like all the Bamboos, it is of an extremely 

 graceful habit, and, in this instance, the ele- 

 gance of the plant is very much augmented by 

 the fine silvery glaucous hue of the under side 

 of the foliage. It is of a moderately vigorous 

 habit, and the leaves, which are three to four 

 inches long, and about three-quarters of an inch 

 broad, are of a full green on the upper surface, 

 glaucous beneath, and striped in a varying de- 

 gree, but usually freely with white, forming an 

 elegant variegation. It is a strikingly ornamen- 

 tal hardy decorative plant.— W. Bull. 



