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JOUBNAL OF HORTICDLTURE AND COTTAGE GAKDENEB. 



f August 13, 1868. 



other subjects connected with that remarkable land ; and if 

 the measurements just given prove correct, what will our 

 consinB on the other side of the Atlantic say to their much and 

 deservedly-extolled Wellingtonia being obliged to take second 

 jdace in the list of vegetable giants ? If this should be the 

 case it will in no way diminish the value we place on the Mam- 

 moth Tree of the far west, which makes its home amongst ne, 

 and grows with all the vigour of an indigenous tree. The Aus- 

 tralian Eucalyptuses are, however, another class, and we have 

 no hope of their withstanding our winters excepting in a few 

 sheltered places, aa at Plymouth, and other parts of Devon 

 and Cornwall, where we are told some have withstood several 

 winters with impunity.— Eds.] 



NEW ROSE LA FRANCE. 

 The first two or three blooms of this variety were indifferent 

 and thin, doubtless owing to the severe trial Eoses and all 

 plants have had to endure this season, but I have just now cut a 

 perfect flower, and a very beautiful one it is. La France may 

 be described as a large and full Eose, the outer petals slightly 

 hai gracefully recurved, silvery white, tinged with pale pink, 

 and having a deeper centre. The whole flower is almost 

 spheroidal. The petals are of good substance, well coloured 

 thronghout, thus indicating endurance ; it is also powerfully 

 irsgraut. Other blooms will shortly be expanded, which will, 

 doubtless, folly verify the above. The plant grows vigorously, 

 and is freely remontant ; it bids fair, therefore, to be one of 

 the best Eoses of the year.. — Adolphos H. Kent. 



PEARS. 



14. Amiral. — Fruit large, a little uneven in its outline. Skin 

 7ery much covered with rough ashy grey russet, exhibiting here 



15. Ananas. — Fruit medium size. Excellent for dessert late 

 in September, but does not continue good long. 



The Passe Colmar is sometimes called by this name, but is 

 an entirely different variety, and so is that called by the Belgian 

 pomologists the Beurre Ananas. 



A NEW PEACH. 



We have just received from Mr. Pearson, of Chilwel], a 

 seedling yellow-fleshed Peach, ripened in one of his orchard 

 houses, which is deserving of notice. Yellow-fleshed Peaches, 

 which are so greatly esteemed in America, have not found 

 much favour in this country. They are much inferior as a rule 

 to the white-ileshed sorts, vet there is something very pleas- 

 ing and warm-looking about them quite in contrast to the 

 others. Mr. Pearson's seedling is one of the best we have 

 tasted, of large size, the flesh deep orange yellow, very melting, 

 juicy, and pleasantly flavoured, and the fruit is exceedingly 

 handsome in appearance. It is a variety of decided merit. 



Amiral. 

 and there small patches and mottles of the yellowish green 

 ground colour. Eye small and open, with short horny segments 

 set in a slight depression. Stalk three-quarters of an inch long, 

 Blender, brown, and woody, fleshy at the insertion. Flesh 

 lender, buttery, juicy and very melting, sweet and sugary, with 

 a fine anise aroma. 



A very fine Pear which ripens in the last week of September, 

 and then blets very rapidly. 



This is Amiral of the old pomologists, and is quite distinct 

 irom Arbre ConrbC', which is sometimes made synonymous. 



PORTRAITS OF PLANTS, FLOWERS, AND 

 FRUITS. 



Pleroma irACRANTHUji (Large-flowercd Pleroma). Nat. vrd., 

 Melastomacea^. Linn., Decandria Monogynia. — Very fine both 

 in flower and foliage. Native of St. Catherine, Brazil. Flowers 

 purple.— (Bo(. Mag., t. 5721.) 



Fkionidji Palmita (South African Palmita). \at.ord.,3iin- 

 cacere. Linn., Hexandria Monogynia. — Native of rivers in 

 South Africa.— (7/i/(i., (. 5722.) 



Nanodes MedoS/E (Medusa's-head Orchid). Nat. ord., Or- 

 chidacca-. JLinji., Gynandria Monandria. — Native of Ecuador. 

 Introduced by Messrs. Backhouse, of York. Flowers green, 

 lip dull reddish purple.— (TZ-n!., t. 5723.) 



MoNiziA EDCI.I3 (Eatable Monizia, Cenoula da Eocha, or 

 Eock Carrot). Nat. onl, Umbellifers;. Linn., Pentandria Di- 

 gynia. — Native of the Great Deserta, one of the Madeiran 

 Islands. Although the root is eatable when boiled, it is only 

 equal to a had stringy Parsnip. — {Itid., t. 5724.) 



Oncidiu.-m Marshallianusi (Mr. Marshall's Oncidium). Nat. 

 ord., Orchidacea'. Linn., Gynandria Monandria. — Native 

 place not stated. Introduced by Messrs. Low & Co., of Clap- 

 ton. Flo-rers yellow and crimson. — (Ihid., t. 5725.) 



Iresine Lindeni. — " Of the several species of the Amaran- 

 thaceous order which furnish highly-coloured leaves for flower- 

 garden decoration, the plant we now figure promises to be one 

 of the most useful. Its habit is dwarf and freely branched, 

 producing an abundance of twiggy shoots, which are clothed 



