420 THE 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[OCTOBER 2, 1875, _ E 
species is a much approved beverage. e 
following recipe for making it is extracted 
5 pints of berries add 1 quart of water; suffer 
it to stand twenty-four hours, strain through a 
colander, then through a jelly-bag, and to every 
d one nutmeg 
o a small linen- bag 
After all are mixed, put it in 
a stone jug, filled up, and kept full with some of 
the same juice reserved for that purpose, until 
it is done working, which will be in two or three 
Cork it tightly, and keep it ina cold 
place for three or four months, then pour it off 
into bottles, with a little loaf-sugar in each 
bottle ; cork and sealclose. If the wine is kept 
for twelve months, it will be still better.” A 
jelly made from this species and the “ June- 
i is in ыч esteem as ап 
artic of both ha 
tainly tonic properties i 
ance, and their dried leaves have been recom- 
mended as substitutes for tea. B. M. 
New Garden Plants. 
PASSIFLORA BILOBATA, Fuss.* 
A d time since we received from Messrs. Veitch 
of this plant for identification, 
of it: 
dispara ute 
The flowers 
Lr Dome in a 
and pistil 
c ома (batir Lem 
points the correspon 
not hesitated to eee it to that species. 77. 7. М. 
MASDEVALLIA VELUTINA, 2. sf.+ 
This is a slénder, small, lovely gem, forming d 
tufts of leaves, 8 es high—I have only 
the inferior and have therefore to guess. The 
slender peduncle of dark violet colo le 
flower, rosy violet and white, as large as that of M. 
Estrad but with longer tails, surpassing the body 
the perigone times. The great charm of 
of 
the dae species consists in the interior surface being 
totally covered with velvet. The plant comes from 
assiffora bilobata, Juss. in Ann. Mus. Mg 107, t. $ 
Mask. in Flora Brasiliense ye eæ), 5 pig i 
bores flexuosi compressi glabri longitudinale sulcate ; 
lia membranacea ocellata basi cordat 
lunato: biloba, lobis oblongis acutis iv 
andulosi; stipulæ æque ac bracteæ minutissimæ caducæ ; 
se Past umb zequantes ; t 
umbilicatus ; sepala oblonga 
; coron ex eriore 
evio: 
rona 
margine Чаш айел: согопа 
um subglobosum glabrum ; styli 
. G. Rchb. f. Clausæ porrectze 
—— ore papilloso ; labello in urato; carinis gem 
a i i superiore ; carinis ternis seu seu quinis 
и hy ee gr nidis prona е utrinque deorsum 
= жей 
the puies scd 
T аба tors wi 
by hearing o 
New Granada, It was discovered several years ago 
by M. Wallis, pei a: by oezl, and finally 
imported by Vei who feel pleased to 
admit candidly that | it vil А by M. Wallis. 
hb, f. 
CROTON DISRAELI. 
THis is a most remarkable plant, and peculiarly 
distinct, We have been made acquainted within the 
with Crotons innumerable, several of 
which, though not perhaps really excelling in beauty 
the old favourites, C. ‚м; C. pictus, and С, 
нас to be е 
Fic. 88.— CROTON DISRAELI, VEITCH. 
crimson and gold are exceedingly rich when well laid 
on. Some twelve months TE or thereabout, 
m their propriety 
p rae otons with trifid, or or three cle leaves, 
and duri ast spring some of them have made 
their way fred the pub 
The b hoes Жз of ee so fay et know, is that 
represent the accompanyin fi ures (fi 88, 8 9), 
for which we Бате the M ng а-а Уе Acer Tek It fi га 
a stoutish, erect-growing bush, with leaves а 
abide a foot in length, marked а green gro 
ичтей with golden ribs and ve 
and throwing out two side lobes of moderate 
ae ae oe и middle аре which is contracted in 
C 
gardeners Pia M Bad. the pl а 
a welcome ar а) i wer decorative stores, г 
exhibitors with a new su ject w 
which to Persii hei r5 skill. 
DY MER od md 
great Soho firm of fi 
prising firm it would be difficult to say: Pe 
several thousands, at least, for *'picklers" are wel] - 
favoured, All the world over they are met with on — 
every shore and in every clime, and to the inevitable 4 
cold mutton—that standing monument of British 
—they are Ф essential as sugari 
i ni 
powerful relish, pow ally t 
refined" by a plentiful RE exc к: йа and 
атан Ап atte odou 
most d lightfal iat 
E^ ordinary edible Lea е = three crops in 
the year. Thus just now a market Yr 
pu 
ground available for a 
the crop of autumn-sown Tripolis, ripe an 
for market purposes is comparatively sm 
popular = all, and ful, is the main He 
winter use of S 
the крио wn White Sp 
Brown Globe kinds, and S ne a these, on 
coldest day of fee year, to eat with his hur т bit ta 
‘the has | ye ad s Я hot. 
, but 
i ended pr by d 
which will о сотов Bo abund 
lo 
р ant odour cu С 
Onion; and fair ladies and elegant gentlemen, who - 
would shudder at the tho ught af Taw “il pod even. 
though it a Banbury 1 
gloat over he pretty cms a ‘picker 
ing sp 
Mm » choite and барин. morsel—fit diet for go 
"зве: u Ө Popa Onion growers— 
essrs. Crosse & Blackwell, bus ni 
mo 
an 
rops during the ега 
үгә яба for pp Ta private g 
accustomed to s 
is v. 
panish, adapts 
form of edm required. of it, and lich « would se 
ee the he mesi етеп" 
to possess 
ness of xm fol — habit 
to be the best period 
permit. The ground to 
be well manured and ly worked M pre 
over the six 
e soil en masse, and they are piles 
uls and laid close 
haulm 
