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walls. Hitherto, after tlie season of flowering-plants was past, 

 we had nothing but the well-known Crataegus pyracantha to lend 

 an air of gaiety to the situations described ; but its rich clusters 

 of red berries are rarely to be seen after Christmas, nor are they 

 ever produced except in sunny situations and in warm seasons. 

 Cotoneaster Simmonsii, however (for such is the name of the plant 

 to which I am now aiming to direct your attention), while in 

 gaiety of appearance, rapidity of growth, and neatness of habit it 

 more than rivals the C. pyracantha, has the great advantage of 

 producing its bright vermilion fruit with the utmost profusion, 

 even in a season as unfavourable as that of 1863, and a climate as 

 inhospitable as that of North Staffordshire. It has stood quite 

 unaffected by the trying winter from which we seem yet to have 

 scarcely emerged, and it is now (March 4) a mass of glowing red, 

 although not a " hip or a haw " nor berry of any description could 

 be found within the confines of this parish. But the birds, though 

 they have made a complete clearance of everything else, have 

 spared the fruit of the new Cotoneaster. I should add, that it 

 succeeds perfectly as a standard, though when treated as such 

 it is only sub -evergreen ; nor do I think that, standing out singly, 

 it will form a handsome tree. The history of its introduction is 

 involved in some obscurity; but the seeds are believed to have 

 been gathered by Dr. Hooker on the Khasya Hills, and brought 

 by him to Kew. 



VII. Dendrobium Tiedyosmum (Sweet- smelling Dendrobium). 

 By J. Bateman, Esq., F.B.S. 

 Introduced from Moulmein by Messrs. Low, of the Clapton 

 Nursery, to whom it was sent by Mr. Parish under the name of 

 D. albo-viride, in allusion to the green and white hue of the 

 flowers at the time of their opening, and for a week afterwards. 

 Had Mr. Parish, however, waited a little longer, he would, like 

 myself, have seen with surprise the green tint disappear from the 

 tip, and a bright orange take its place. This change has now 

 been for three weeks an accomplished fact in the specimen exhi- 

 bited, and which is still as fresh as at the very first. 



As Mr. Parish's was only a MS. name, and was evidently given 

 under a misapprehension, I have ventured to change it for one 

 which alludes to the delicious perfume exhaled by the plant, and 

 which has a striking resemblance to that of the wallflower. 



D. hedyosmwn belongs to Dr. Lindley's nigro-hirsute section of 



