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JOURNAL OP HORTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAKDENEB, 



[ June 19, 1878. 



therefore advise my brother gardeners to give it a fair trial | sider a most excellent Grape. — Thomas P. Tuknee, Gardener, 

 Lefore writing in disparagement of what I have reason to con- | Earl of Heath, Killruddcry Castle, Co. Wiclilow. 



CAEICA AUEANTIACA 



Thbough the kindness of Mr. William Bull, of the King's 

 Eoad, Chelsea, we are enabled to figure this newly-introduced 

 Papayad. It is described by him as having " stout, fleshy, 



erect stems, and long-stalked palmately-parted smooth leaves 

 of a soft herbaceous texture, the centre lobo of which is pin- 

 natifid ; the lobes appear, from the sketches of the plant, to 



Carica am-autiaca. 



be about IJ inch broad. The fruit is globose, a Uttle over 

 3 inches in diameter, orange-coloured, and Orange-like. The 

 plant is free in habit, and of ornamental growth." 



What this may prove to be in an economical or in an orna- 

 mental point of view we cannot venture to say. The Papaw- 

 tree, so ftenerally cultivated in the East, is also a native of 

 South America, but has dingy orange-coloured fruit of much 

 greater dimensions. In connection with this tree we may 

 mention its property of turning all meat tender ; it is even 



said, and we believe with truth, that fresh-killed meat placect 

 under its foliage will be similarly affected. Such, at least, has 

 been our experience in India, as well as that of many of oui' 

 friends ; but there, however, the climate does much in the 

 same direction. The Papaw is propagated by seeds in India ; 

 and Mr. Speed, in his " Indian Gardener," recommends that 

 the tree should be grown in rich mould, otherwise the fruit 

 wiU become even more tasteless than it naturally is. 



FLOWERS FOK OUR BORDERS.— No. 10. 



GEAMIIANTHES GENTIANOIDES.— Gentian-like Orammanthes. 



The Houseleek tribe inclndos within its limits so few plants 

 wliich are not perennial, that the present subject, an annual, 

 has some claim to be regarded as a novelty. 



The Grammanthes gentianoides is a native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, and is, we believe, a recent introduction. It grows 

 but a few inches high, and has smooth, rather brittle stems, 

 and bhiut, fleshy leaves, hke those of most Crassulaceous 

 plants. The flowers are of an orange-yellow tint, in terminal 

 clusters, each with five petals, five stamens, and five distinct 

 styles and carpels. The last feature is so eminently charac- 



teristic of the plants of this order, that, taken in conjunction 

 with their succulent habit, it affords an easy method of dis- 

 tinguishing them from all other tribes. 



The blossoms are remarkable for a dark stain at the base of 

 each lobe of the corolla, and which being continued along the 

 middle of each petal towards its extremity, partially divides 

 the ground colour, so as to give it an appearance which has 

 not been inaptly compared to that of the letter V ; and it is in 

 allusion to this circumstance that the genua has been named, 

 from orumma, a letter, and anthos, a flower. 



