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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ October 3, 1872. 



will, next year, hold an International Horticultural Exhibi- 

 tion in that town. The site of it is to be upon the winter garden 

 of the Casino ; and it will be open from the 30th of March to 

 the 6th of April. 



The past summer has been eccentrically favourable to 



certain natural productions — the Camberwell Beauty, one of 

 the rarest of our butterflies, has been comparatively abundant ; 

 Tomatoes have borne profusely ; and the Agave americana has 

 not only bloomed in the Royal Horticultural Society's con- 

 servatory, but at Miss Elliotson's, Clapham, and two other 

 places. 



Eucalyptus globulus is at present being planted in 



great numbers throughout Spain. Along the sides of the roads 

 and in the public promenades it is often now to be seen ; and 

 the railway companies are rearing young plants to a consider- 

 able extent. 



- — A remarkable sport of the May Duke Cherry has been 

 produced in the grounds of M. Ferdinand Massange, of Baillon- 

 ville. The leaves become narrow at the end, so as to resem- 

 ble those of the Peach, or even the Willow. Some are 8 inches 

 in length, and an inch in width ; others are 4 inches in length, 

 and about the third of an inch in breadth. — (Belgique 

 Horticole.) 



Parks at Newcastle-on-Tyke and Leeds. — The park 



at Newcastle is about to be formed by the Corporation on the 

 Town Moor. It is proposed they shall pay £75,000 to the 

 freemen for the right of herbage which they will lose by the 

 enclosure — that is, the right to pasture their horses, cows, and 

 sheep upon the Moor. The Roundhay Park at Leeds is now 

 opened to the public. It occupies almost 800 acres, and has a 

 lake nearly three-quarters of a mile in length. 



M. J. Sisley, of Lyons, has raised a new variety of 



Pelargonium, with double white flowers. It is the progeny of 

 a plain white fertilised by a double red, and seems to be very 

 floriferous. 



Radishes. — Most of our readers if asked how many 



varieties of Radishes there are, would reply six — the Long, the 

 Turnip, the Oval, and the red and white of each, and they will 

 be surprised to hear that more than thirty varieties were shown 

 in one collection at the last Lyons Horticultural Exhibition. 



— — The Willow which grew by the "waters of Babylon," 

 and whereon the mournful children of Judah hung up their 

 harps, was not, as Linnteus and others have supposed, the 

 Salix babylonica. It is now thought to be a kind of Poplar, 

 incapable of being grown even in the northern parts of Syria, 

 and, therefore, not likely to be able to endure our climate. 

 The ordinary Weeping Willow has been brought from China 

 and Japan. 



A new Tea Rose, Perle de Lyon, has been raised in 



France. It is much like Mareehal Kiel, only more beautiful, 

 aud it is thought probable that it will supplant both this and 

 Madame Falcot. 



PORTRAITS OP PLANTS, FLOWERS, AND 

 FRUITS. 



Amohum meleoueta. Nat. ord., Zinziberacea?. Linn, arr., 

 Monandria Monogynia. — A native of Western Tropical Africa, 

 supposed by Dr. Hooker to be the natural condition of the 

 plant cultivated in French Guiana and Demerara, and which 

 produces the Grains of Paradise. Leaves from i to 6 inches 

 long, 1 inch broad ; ligule very short, sheath slender. Scape 

 densely clothed with imbricate bracts, which are coriaceous 

 and dull green, with red margins and tips. Flower very pale 

 pink, suffused with yellow towards the centre. — (Bot. Mag., 

 t. 5987.) 



Monanthes muralis. Nat. ord., Crassulacea 1 . Linn, an:, 

 Dodecandria Dodecagynia. — The genus Monanthes, which con- 

 sists of six species, was supposed to be confined to the Canary 

 Islands until Mr. Ball found a specimen of the present species 

 on Mount Tezi, in Marocco. Stems branched from the base : 

 branches prostrate, 1 to 3 inches long, cylindric, naked below, 

 bearing a densely imbricate rosette of twenty to thirty leaves 

 towards the apex. Petals six, elliptic-ovate, acuminate, 

 golden yellow, speckled with red on the back beneath the tip, 

 which is keeled, twice as long as the calyx, recurved. — (Ibid., t. 

 5988.) 



Brodi.ea multielora. Nat. ord., Liliaceas. Linn, arr., 

 Hexandria Monogynia. — A native of California. Flowers in 

 a subglobose head, crowded, subsessile or on pedicels one-sixth 



to half an inch loug. Perianth bright blue ; tube ventricose 

 and obscurely lobed, half an inch long ; lobes rather shorter 

 than the tube, oblong, subacute ; tips slightly incurved, spread- 

 ing, nearly flat.— (Ibid., t. 5989.) 



Masdevallia Lindeni. Nat ord., Orehidacea?. Linn, arr., 

 Gynandria Monandria. — " M. Lindeni was flowered at the 

 Glasnevin Gardens by Dr. Moore, F.L.S., It was supposed 

 to have been received by him amongst a batch of Central 

 American Orchids, collected by Roezel; but Andre states that 

 it was introduced by G. Wallis from New Grenada in 1869. 

 Scape 1 foot long and upwards, flexuous, with three or four 

 distant appressed sheaths an inch long, green variegated with 

 dull red ; upper sheath or bract distant from the flower. 

 Flower 3 inches long. Ovary short, straight, deeply grooved. 

 Perianth blood red ; sepals connate below into a decurved 

 yellow tube, which is rounded and hardly gibbous at the base." 

 —(Ibid., t. 5990.) 



Salvia taraxacifolia. Nat. ord., Labiata?. Linn, arr., 

 Diandria Monogynia. — A native of the lower slopes of the 

 Greater Atlas, and discovered there by M. Balansa in 1867. It 

 has been seen by Dr. Hooker growing in broad patches along 

 the base of the Great Atlas, and presenting a very beautiful 

 appearance. Calyx half an inch long, tubular-campanulate ; 

 tube densely appressed, tomentose, and clothed with spreading 

 hairs ; lips nearly straight, upper three, lower two-lobed. 

 Corolla nearly twice as long as the calyx, pale pink, with a 

 yellowish disk to the lower lip, and purple-speckled prominent 

 pilose palate ; tube ventricose, villous near the faux and on the 

 short galeate compressed upper lip ; and with a ring of brown 

 hairs near the base within. — (Ibid., t. 5991.) 



Lachenalia tricolor. Nat. ord., Liliacea?. Linn, arr., 

 Hexandria Monogynia. — L. tricolor, according to Mr. Baker's 

 determination, is a very variable plant, and includes as forms 

 L. quadricolor, L. luteola, Jacq., and L. aurea, Lindl., of 

 which the last, that now figured, is by far the most elegant, 

 and is further remarkable for its bright colour and the waxy 

 texture of its flower. It flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 

 March of the present year from bulbs. Leaves dark green, 

 uniformly coloured, or speckled or spotted with darker spots. 

 Scape 6 to 10 inches high, reddish, variegated with darker red 

 or purple. Perianth golden yellow, waxy, 1 inch long, tubular; 

 base rounded, rather gibbous; outer segments connate to or 

 below the middle, obtuse, with a gibbous dorsal boss below the 

 tip ; inner almost twice as long as the outer, pale yellow, 

 spathulate, slightly spreading ; tip rounded or obtuse. — (Ibid., t. 

 5992.) 



Galloway Pippin or Croft-en-Reich Apple. — Of this excel- 

 lent kitchen Apple we gave an engraving and description in 

 our twentieth volume, page 236. The editor of the "Florist 

 and Pomologist " adds, " This fine culinary Apple was ex- 

 hibited last season before the Fruit Committee of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, and was awarded a first-class certifi- 

 cate by that body. It is regarded as an excellent late variety, 

 succeeding well in the north. The fruit is above the middle size, 

 roundish, somewhat flattened, and having a slight tendency to 

 angularity around the eye. The skin is a greenish yellow, 

 taking on a pale glow on the exposed side, strewed with russet 

 dots, and having here and there traces of russet. The stalk 

 is short and stout, seated in a deep cavity, and the eye is 

 medium-sized and partially closed. The flesh is firm, but 

 tender, and of a yellowish colour, with a greenish tinge, juicy, 

 with a pleasant brisk acidity. It is in use till the end of 

 January, and may be had even much later." — (Florist and 

 Pomologist, 3 s., vol. v., p. 193.) 



GLOXINIA CULTURE. 



It may with propriety be said of the Gloxinia, " A good old 

 plant of the good old times ; " venerable for its antiquity, and 

 admired for the unsurpassed richness of its handsome flowers, 

 besides other striking characteristics — namely, its large massive 

 lanceolate leaves of velvet texture, many of which are beauti- 

 fully veined, while others are plain, but all furnished with 

 foliage of the most pleasing shades of green. 



G. maculata and speciosa, the progenitors of a now number- 

 less progeny, were both introduced into Europe in 1739 from 

 South America. Since that period Gloxinias have always held 

 their own in the esteem of the cultivator. 



In the warm rather close shade, where the sun's glare is 

 softened by the glass being shaded by means of light scrim or 

 other thin shading, the Gloxinia will luxuriate. Cold draughts, 

 and the habit often practised of dashing water over them out 



