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Pyrus crataegifolius.— Both in a wild state and under cultivation 
this is a rare plant. It is a distinctly ornamental and graceful small 
tree with white flowers, Botanically it seems to show connecting links 
with Crataegus, in which genus it e indeed been placed by some 
authors. A specimen in the Arboretum at Kew is now in fine flower ; 
vA was raised from seeds collected for Kew by the late H. Groves, of 
orence. 
Marantas.—A great deal of. confusion prevails in gardens in the 
nomenclature of the dwarf Scitaminea, with variegated leaves. The 
belong to three genera, Té neni Myrosma, and Calathea, which 
differ from one another in inflorescence, bracts, and the structure of the 
ovary, but which cannot be Magn sa till the plant reaches the 
flowering stage. We have flowered lately at Kew  Calathea 
massangeana, kerchoveana, devosiana, Piin and vi el and 
find all these to be true Marantas, nearly allie M. bico er. 
Bot. Reg., tab. 786. We have also flowered Calathea odiis and 
flavescens, and find these to be true Calatheas. 
mar Khayyam’s Rose.—Omar Khayyam is one of the classical 
Persian poets. He flourished about the time of William the Conqueror. 
Mis poems were translated into English a generation ago by Edward 
Fitzgerald, the friend of Tennyson, and he now numbers, both iu this 
country and the United States, a band of warm admirers. In 1884 
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ere presen nted to the Royal Gardens by Mr. Bernard Quaritch, 
ae ‘the bush which grew from them, of which cuttings were sent a 
centifolia, the sweetest scented of all the roses, from which the cabbage 
rose, the moss TOSe, and the pompon are derive The native country 
Haussknecht in a semi-double form at an ‘ligt n of 8,500 feet, 
amongst the mountains of Assyria. Omar Khayyam's plant has fully 
double flowers and evidently belongs to a long cultivated race. 
AS hea Plant” —The Rev. Dr. Warre, Head Master of Eton 
College, has sent a few fruits, rm E apparently living seeds, of a 
shrub inhabiting northern Central Australia, where vef were collected 
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