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yellow, hide-bound and moss-clotted ; 

 and then the ownere tell rae "the Apple 

 is one of the fruits which will not do in 

 Victoria"; but when you come to places 

 where the Apple h.ts all the ground to 

 itself, or having other things growing 

 with it, is still manured for both, then 

 you will see that the Apple will do as 

 W3ll as elsewhere. 



And what a country for the cooler- 

 loving fruits and vegetables ! The com- 

 mon Currant grows five feet high, and 

 beai*s fruit as large as the Cherry or 

 Versailles. And such Cabbage, Lettuce, 

 Peas, etc., few if any of our readers 

 ever saw. 



I almost felt that I could remain here; 

 bux; when I remembered the grapes 

 and watermelons and tomatoes, and 

 scores of other things which we have 

 and they may envy, I shall feel free to 

 return as hai)py as when T left home. 

 — Thomas Meehan, in Gardener's 

 Monthly. 



NEW PLANTS. 



Begonia, Prixce Albert Victor. — 

 A first class certificate was awarded to 

 this new Begonia which is described in 

 The Garden as an extremely fine double- 

 flowered variety of the tuberous rooted 

 Begonias, having large flowers whose 

 petals form a perfect rosette of bright 

 cherry crimson ; while the plant is a 

 sturdy grower and well furnished with 

 blossoms. 



Rose, Her Majesty. — The floral 

 event of the National Society's Rose 

 Show, was the winning by Mr. H. 

 Bennett, of Shepperton, the Society's 

 gold medal for the best Rose in the 

 show with his new Rose called Her 

 Majesty. It is instructive to find that 

 a homely English farmer, now retired 

 from the occupation of com growing, 

 should have beaten both home and con- 

 tinental raisers by producing, not only 

 for the year the finest new rose, but I 

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also one which will probably prove the 

 lest of a decade of years. We are 

 tliankful Her Majesty does not wear 

 those 1 ea\y habiliments of colour which 

 liM vc m i; k d so many of our new roses 

 of recen ntroduction ; on the contrary, 

 it is of a lovely soft flesh tint. Just as 

 A. K. Willliams has proved to be the 

 richest coloured and most beautiful 

 rose of its class so far, so will Her 

 Majesty occupy that distinguished 

 position amongst fair roses — in fact, 

 amongst regal flowers the queen. On 

 stands of many blooms there has been 

 such a ringing the changes upon the 

 Baroness de Rothschild and La France, 

 both very beautiful of their kind, that 

 another new rose belonging to their 

 section is indeed a treasure. Her Ma- 

 jesty, as becomes such a royal flower, 

 is large in size and beautiful in form ; 

 and it was noticeable, in spite of the 

 expansion caused by the heat, that she 

 maintained her good looks to the last. 

 — The Garden. 



Chrysanthemum Alexander Du- 

 FOUR. — A new early flowering variety 

 distinct from all the rest of the race, 

 inasmuch as it is a cross between the 

 Japanese section and one of the vari- 

 eties with short florets. The flowers 

 are larger than any other of the early 

 race, the florets being narrow, prettily 

 reflexed, and of a bright amaranth, a 

 colour peculiarly pleasing and cheerful, 

 particularly under artificial light. As 

 to its extreme floriferousness, the plants 

 shewn by Messrs. Cannell, of Swanley, 

 bore evident proof. 



Eucharis Sanderi. — A new bulbous 

 plant ftom Columbia, and quite dis- 

 tinct from either of the other two cul- 

 tivated species. It has large deeply 

 furrowed foliage of a pale gi'een colour. 

 The flower-sj)ikes overtop the foliage, 

 and bear umbels of pure white flowers 

 nearly as large as those of E. grandi- 

 flora (amaionica), but with the corona 



