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email, deep green, sharply serrated. Ileada large, girth 

 11 iucheB. Outer leafstalks narrow. Hearts eomewhat loose, 

 blanohing to about 12 inches. The Btalks rather soft but of 

 fine flavour. Rather tender. 



15. DixoN'g Mammotu White. — Plant of close compact 

 robust growth. Height 2 feet 3 inches. Leaflets broad. Heads 

 large, girth 11 inches; outer leafstalks very broad, about 

 2 inches. Hearts very large, blanching about 11 inches, some- 

 what soft, but excellent. It stands the winter well. 



10. Gkeai Eastern. — Plant of loose spreading habit, so 

 much so that it is difficult to keep the heads together, and 

 much addicted to throwing-up side shoots. Height 2 feet 

 9 inches. Leaflets small pointed, very pale green. Heads 

 small, girth 10 inches. Hearts loose and small. A very worth- 

 less sort, and decays early. 



17. Haywood's White Queen [syn., Stuart & Mein's Giant 

 White; Goodall's Flat-atalked ; Webster's White] .—Plant of 

 robust growth. Leaves spreading. Height 2 feet 'J inches. 

 Heads large, 13 inches iu girth ; outer leafstalks very broad 

 (about 2 inches), much ribbed, and coarse. Hearts solid, 

 blanching to about 14 inches. The stalks very large, broad, 

 thick, and fleshy; but without much flavour. An excellent 

 sort to stand the winter. 



18. Veitch's Solid White [syn., Danesbury]. — Plant of 

 close compact growth. Height 2 feet G inches. Leaflets 

 broad, very deeply toothed or serrated, giving it quite a dis- 

 tinct appearance. Heads compact, girth 11 inches; outer leaf- 

 stalks rather broad, deeply ribbed, pale green. Hearts very 

 firm and solid, blanching for about 12 inches. The stalks 

 broad, thick, crisp, and tender. A very excellent variety, and 

 stands the winter well. 



19. Boston Maeket. — Plant dwarf, from 18 to 20 inches 

 high. Leaflets small pointed and sharply serrated. This va- 

 riety is not used to produce a single head as the ordinary 

 Celeries, but having the peculiarity of forming a number of 

 side shoots or small heads which are blanched. It is suited 



for early work, and it begins to run to seed almost as soon as 

 planted out. 



20. Feise, Ciirlcd or Garnishing. — Plant of loose growth. 

 Height about 2 feet. Leaves very pale green, and deeply out 

 or curled almost like Parsley. It is very ornamental. The 

 leaves may be used for garnishing, but it is of no other use. 

 It is very tender, and runs early to seed. 



21. TuENip-RooTED [.<(/«., Celeri navct ; Eave; Eaved'Erfurt ; 

 Soup Celery; . — This is quite a distinct vegetable, the plant 

 forming a large bulb at the base of leafstalks like a Turnip. 

 This bulb is used in soups much in the same way as Turnips, 

 and not the leafstalks as in other Celeries, and requires no 

 blanching. It is not much cultivated in this country. — 

 A. F. Baeron. 



BOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



January 19th. 



Fruit Committee.— Henry Webb, Esq., iu the chair. Mr. 

 Walker of Thame sent bulbs of his Model Long-keeping Ouion, 

 which is identical with White Spanish, except that the skin is 

 tinged with brown. A dish of Witloof or Hearting Chicory was 

 exhibited from the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society 

 from seed supplied by Messrs. James Carter & Co. This excel- 

 lent salad vegetable had been blanched in the way of Seakale, 

 and was awarded a iirst-class certificate. Mr. William Taylor, 

 the Gardens, Longleat, sent a dish of Orangefleld Tomato which 

 was much commended. Messrs. Stuart & Mtin sent a collection 

 of Chilian Beet of various colours, to which a letter of thanks 

 was awarded. The same gentlemen also sent specimens of a 

 proliferous Scotch Kale which formed secondary curled blades 

 on the leaves, to which a letter of thanks wos awarded. 



Mr. Chambers, Westlake Nursery, Sj)riugrove, sent a box of 

 Blenheim Pippin Apples, to which a letter of thanks was awarded. 

 Mr. Cox exhibited a dish of Eedleaf Russet, which received a 

 first-class certificate last year, and these quite confirmed the 

 good opinion formed of it by the Committee. A dish of BeurrcJ 

 de Jonghe Pear was received from the garden at Chiswick, and 

 was found to be of exquisite flavour. Josephine de Malines was 

 also very well flavoured. Benrre Sterckmans and Belle de Noel 

 were not so well flavoured, some of them not being quite ripe. 

 Glou Mor<;eau and St. Germain were of good but not high flavour. 



Mr. William Paul having offered a prize for the best banch of 

 Waltham Cross Grape exhibited before the Society in January, 

 1876, two competitors exhibited, and the prize of flO was awarded 

 to Mr. James Douglas, Loxford Hall. 



Floral Committee.— B. B. Postans, Esq., in the chair. At 

 this the opening meeting of the year there was a considerable 

 attendance of horticulturists. The day being mild also per- 



mitted the removal of tender plants from their homes, and 

 Messrs. Veitch consequently made a most attractive exhibition. 

 Only one first-class certificate was awarded on this occasion, 

 this honour going to an Australian Dendrobe exhibited by Mr. 

 Denning, gardener to Lord Londesborough — Dendrobium tere- 

 tifolium. This remarkable plant has straw-coloured flowers 

 individually small, but striking by their great profusion. The 

 plant is gro\^■ing on wood, the foliage having a curious resem- 

 blance to gigantic roots which hang perpendicularly from the 

 slender suffruticose stems. It is a very distinct species, and 

 has been appropriately alluded to as the Cobweb Orchid. 



Messrs. Veitch & Sons' splendid display consisted of about 

 fifty Orchids, a few Palms, hybrid Amaryllises, and other orna- 

 mental plants. Amongst the Orchids were Cypripediums Crossi- 

 anum, tessellatum, Argus, and Schlimmi album; Odontoglos- 

 sums were represented by U. Roezlii, Roezlii album, Rossii 

 majus, Alexaudrfc, Hallii, Pescatorei, Bictonense splendens, O. 

 Phalfenopsis and Andereouii. Amongst Cattleyaswere Skinuerii 

 in variety, and triana). Noticeable also were Oncidium cheiro- 

 phorum, Masdevallia tovarensis very fine, Angr;ocum sesqui- 

 pedale with six blooms, and Sophronites grandiliora extremely 

 bright. Besides the Orchids, Auojctochilus Dawsonii had eight 

 spikes of flowers, and Tillandsia Liudeni was remarkably robust, 

 one stout spike having flowers, and four other spikes were clear 

 of the axils. More vigorous still was T. Zahnii. Exceedingly 

 brilliant was Aphelandra aurantiaca Roezlii, the plants being 

 dwarf and very fine; it is difijcult to imagine a more fiery 

 colour than is possessed by the spikes of this fine plant. The 

 Amaryllises were in colours of cream, crimson, and scarlet, 

 striped, mottled, and flaked, some of the flowers being of good 

 form. Eranthemnm pulchellum was dwarf and good, and the 

 new Fern, Nephrolepis philippineneis, was in excellent con- 

 dition. 



Messrs. Veitch also sent a collection of fifty Cyclamens in 

 small pots. The plants were remarkably well grown, and the 

 colours rich and varied ; a few of the whites being especially 

 pure. Noticeable as towering above its fellows was a gigantic 

 plant named Model ; the flower stems of this variety are fully 

 18 inches in length and proportionately stout, the blooms also 

 being very large. 



Votes of thanks were most worthily awarded to Messrs. Veitch 

 for these collections, and the Committee further recominended 

 them as being worthy of a medal. 



Caltleya bulbosa was exhibited by Mr. Hill, gardener to Sir 

 W. Marriot, Bart., Down House, Blandford, and a cultural com- 

 mendation was awarded ; the plant was on wood and had fifteen 

 flowers, and was considered to be a very superior specimen. 

 MasdevaDia Davisii in splendid health, the dozen yellow flowers 

 being very effective, was exhibited by Mr. Murrell, gardener to 

 W.Burnley Hume, Esq., The HillHou6e,Winterton, Yarmouth. 

 This is one of the Chelsea seedlings which received a first-class 

 certificate last year; since then the plant has greatly improved 

 both in the size and colour of the flowers, and is a superior 

 variety. 



Mr. Green, the Botanical Nursery, Holmesdale Road, Reigate, 

 exhibited a collection of succulent plants, for which a vote of 

 thanks was awarded. Amongst these Mesembryanthemum 

 truncatellom received a botanical certificate. These are very 

 curious plants, as also were some miniature Masdevallias from 

 the same exhibitor. The collection included Echeveria metal- 

 lica crispa elegans, a promising variety with fimbriated leaves. 



Messrs. Stuart & Mein, Kelso, sent Rhipsalis pachyptera, its 

 Cactus-like leaves being fringed with flowers ; and Mr. Chambers, 

 Westlake Nursery, Isleworth, sent seedling planis of Hoya car- 

 nosa with marbled foliage. The plants were not in bloom. 



PAPYRUS ANTIQUORUM. 



I WAS much interested in reading your remarks on the 

 Papyrus antiqnorum, as I had no idea it would Uve out o£ 

 doors iu our climate even during the summer. I am extremely 

 fond of aquatic plants, and have a tank iu my garden where 

 several flourish well, and amongst them the beautiful Cyperus 

 alternifoUus, also the native Cyperus longus, of which famOy 

 I beheve we may claim also the diminutive C. fescus, but I 

 fear it is nearly if not quite extinct, unless Mr. Robert Parker 

 of Tooting succeeded in discovering a few plants iu a locality 

 of which I gave him intimation that it had been found. 



Some of the Panioums make striking and elegant additions 

 to the Bummer flower beds. P. plicatum flourished well with 

 me last year and flowered freely. 



If any of your correspondents can furnish me with any ad- 

 ditional names of aquatic plants I shall feel extremely obUged. 

 — M. A. Walker. 



Royal Horticultural Society. — The Council recommend 

 for the offices of President, Treasurer, Secretary, Committee- 

 men of the Expenses Committee, and Auditors of the Society, 



