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being the Priory Globe, of perfect shape, excel- 
lent quality, and a good keeper. Some fine 
Tripolis are also grown, and last until the middle 
or end of August. 
There are thirteen glass-houses in the kitchen 
garden, mostly in two ranges, the upper range 
consisting of large Vinery, Peach-house, stove 
large conservatory. 
nished with healthy plants and good crops of fruit, 
the chief Grapes grown being Black Hamburgh, 
Alicantes, Lady Downes, Muscat of Alexandria, 
Mrs. Pince, Muscat Hamburgh, and Madresfield 
Court, the latter a special favourite here, being 
remarkably well grown, and free from cracking. 
early forcing, and the 
who so admirably manages this fine old place 
Fig, 5. 
„ OSYTH: FRONT OF HOUSE, 
with a staff of ten men, assured me that he can 
do the Madresfield Court best in pots, as the 
roots are more at command than when planted 
in a border. I have noted this also in other 
places, so that now it might almost be accepted 
as an axiom that the surest antidote to the crack- 
ing of the Madresfield Court Grape, is to grow it 
in pots 
Two very large Fig trees clothe an enormous 
area of the walls of the Priory, they are supposed 
to be about 300 years old, and seldom miss a 
crop; they used to be covered with glass, and 
warmed by a 3 of which some traces still 
remain. But for many years the glass and arti- 
ficial heat have disappeared, though the trees are 
carefully cultivated and protected in winter; 
they are in robust health and covered with fruit. 
The varieties are different, one being probably 
the Brunswick, and the other the brown Turkey. 
There is also a Mulberry-tree, much older than 
the Figs, and which bears enormous crops every 
year. The lawns and pleasure grounds are well 
furnished with trees and shrubs, flower-beds, her- 
baceous borders, &c., fine collections of the latter 
being grown, 
A very fine Tulip-tree of great age and height 
is found here, also one of the oldest Acacias in the 
kingdom, said to be the oldest but one in England ; 
also Lombardy Poplars, bought and planted by 
Lord Rochford from France sheet he was Ambas- 
sador in the time of Queen Ann 
The park, which is well clothed with Oaks, 
Limes, &c., above, and bracken below, covers 
323 acres, and here the East-end London children 
have swings and other amusements, and two days 
a week they are also taken in batches in carriages 
to the beach. Surely the best spirit of St. Osyth 
still lives in the present owner of the Priory, 
and his joys must be multiplied by twenty-five 
through every fresh batch of waifs and strays 
that he invites to share his pleasures with him 
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SHOWING ORIEL WINDOW, (SEE P, 37.) 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE CITRINUM 
- (Hort, Truffaut), 
1s name has been given on account of the bright 
lemon colour of the lip and petals, The upper sepal 
is broadly oval, with the lateral margins much revo- 
lute (nearly as much so as in C. Spicerianum), the 
apical area is pure white, the central area 
fe than in the type. 
Spots yellowish-brown, very pale. Petals spreading 
in slightly undulated, pale pege with apple- 
green shade towards the base and a few emerald-green 
veins, T helmet-shaped, than in the type, 
with 
Staminodo ne with an orange tubercle in 
the cen Scape e red-brown. 
This re ne variety, much in the way of the famous 
insigne Sanderæ, is more highly-coloured 
C. Dallemagneanum, presented at the last National 
in Paris, and was awarded at the last meeting of the 
same Society a First-class Certificate, Georges Truffaut, 
Q 
larger t 
er lateral lobes of a bright lemon colour, 
Cineraria ALnicaxs, N. E. Brown, n. ep. 
A specimen of this novelty was recently sent to 
Kew by Mr. Gumbleton of Belgrove, Queenstown, 
Ireland, who informs me that he received 3 pee 
Mr, Adlam of Natal; Kew also possesses a plant of 
it that was received from Mr, Thompson of I — 
horti- 
age, it may tu be a useful and desirable 
plant for bedding or decorative purposes. The 
following are its botanical characteristics :— 
A perennial with sateen sem to 14 foot 
a, 8 Ln eo hen Be h a white cottony 
as are a sides 125 the leaver, the 
peduncle pedicel, and e the latter is, how- 
ome s nearly gl 
auricled at the base, and with blades 4 to 1} i 
long and broad, somewhat reniform, or nearly cir- 
ny-toothed, 
0 2 ine ches in 
to 8 lines in diameter, and 
in 
of aclear yellow, — e 24 to 3 1 long, of 
＋ ar had E n -oblong acute scales, with 
scales at the 
Carolla ae Hi — 4 lines long, of the disk- 
florets 24 lines long. 
Although this was received from Natal by Mr. 
y perhaps be a native of the 
Rehmann hope —＋ at Standarton in the Transvaal. 
N. E. Brown, Kew 
Prergis (Lrronnochla) REGIA, Jenm, n. sp. 
St tipites stout, erect, etd aculeated, several feet 
long, the base dark, scaly; fronds aubdeltoid, tri- 
serrate-pointed lobes, 2 lines wide, } inch long, with 
an acute or rounded sinus between; veins very fine, 
freely areolated, outer branches free; sori continuous, 
in the sinus, not reaching the outer 
feet altitude, in damp 
Communicated by 
part. 
with broadly-spreading fronds, having the general 
aspect of gigantea, but differing by the larger pin- 
nules being regularly or irregularly ite pinnatifid, 
and by its paler colour, P. longi-bracteata, Ag., of 
which I have not seen hee wins is also near 
gigantea (indeed, Mr. Baker’s description in Annals 
of Botany, vol. v., No. xviii., p. 167, is exactly that 
of gigantea); but this differs ‘ak both by the pin- 
tance the identification of some of the larger 
iis of Litobrochia is dubious, in the absence of 
the root-stocks, which, as a rule, afford reliable 
specific features. G. S. Jenman, 
NOVELTIES OF 1894. 
Conciuded from 
