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the fruit lias proved to be so good that it is now 

 likelj to create a stir among berry raisers. We re- 

 ceived a basket of this fruit last week, from J. A. 

 Hall of Collamer, a few miles east of East Cleve- 

 land, in this county. The berry is of large size, 

 long cone-shape, firm flesh, high flavor and gamy 

 to the taste ; not so wooly and insipid as this fruit 

 is apt to be. Having a firm flesh the Naomi is a 

 good berry for shipping. As a bearer, Mr. Hall 

 says his canes are almost borne down by the weight 

 of the fruit. As to the superior quality of this 

 fruit, we can vouch without hesitation, that it is 

 fully equal to the Philadelphia, now so popular in 

 the eastern markets. Mr. Hall will have plants to 

 spare in the fall. — Ohio Farmer. 



Strawberry "Iron DiTke." — We have re- 

 ceived from Thomas H. Graydon, Esq., of St. 

 Catharines, C. W., a colored photograph of a new 

 seedling strawberry raised by him, which indicates 

 it to be of very large size — 71 inches in circumfer- 

 ence — berries are said to weigh If ounces. It 

 "cockscDmbs" like Triomphe de Grand, and has 

 the color of that popular variety. 



New Black Grape, the Muscat Champion. 

 — It was raised by Mr. Melville, of Delmeney Park, 

 ; from the Champion Hamburgh, crossed with the 

 i Canon Hall Muscat. It is a very free-setting va- 

 riety, and succeeds 'perfectly under the same treat- 

 ment as the Black Hamburgh. The bunches are 

 large, well shouldered, and the berries of great size, 

 resembling in every respect the Champion Ham- 

 burgh, but with a most exquisite and powerful 

 Muscat flavor. 



In the report of the Fruit Committee of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society for September 10th, 

 1861, it is thus mentioned : — "The bunch in size 

 and shape had all the appearance of one of the Mill 

 Hill Hamburgh. It was large and well set. The 

 berries were large, round, and oblate, shaped like 

 small oranges, and very much 'hammered.' The 

 flesh is firm, juicy, sweet, and richly flavored with 

 a marked Muscat flavor." The Committee were 

 of opinion tha,t it was a decided cross, a very ex- 

 cellent Grape, and well worthy of notice. 



Pear Princess OF Wales.— JYomi & Pomol, 

 1867, 93. A very handsome and valuable dessert 

 fruit, of full average size, variable in shape, ob- 

 tusely obovate, or sometimes with a contracted 

 waist, smooth, pale yellow, mottled over with thin 

 cinnamon russet ; eye open, set in a rather shallow 



basin, the segments erect acute ; stalk short, stout, 

 inserted in a deepish cavity ; flesh smooth, m.elt- 

 ing, juicy, with a highly-flavored aroma. Bipe in 

 November and December. Baised by the Bev. J. 

 Huyshe, Clysthydon, Devon. 



Desmodium penduliflorum. — The Dutch gar- 

 dens introduce to us Desmodium penduliflorum, in 

 which we have what appears to be a perfectly novel 

 and hardy flowering plant, producing free summer 

 growth, with graceful pendulous branches and abun- 

 dant lengthy racemes of reddish purple blossoms in 

 summer and dying back in winter to the older persis- 

 tent woody parts of the stem. — Gard. Chronicle. 



Myrsiphyllum asparagoides. — An elegant 

 greenhouse climber, native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. The leaves (flattened branches) are alter- 

 nate, and like those of Buscus, inserted in the axil 

 of a minute scale; flowers solitary, or in pairs or 

 threes, in the axils of the leaves ; segments of the 

 perianth linear, stamens erect with small orange- 

 red anthers. " One of the most elegant greenhouse 

 climbers that can well be found ; nothing, indeed, 

 can exceed the feathery lightness of the plant when 

 well grown and flowered ; and whether on account 

 of its graceful habit, its flowers in mid-winter, the 

 uniformity of its bright green foliage, and perfume 

 of its pearly flowers, it is one of the plants best 

 suited for table decoration and ornamentation gene- 

 rally hitherto introduced."— i^o^. Magazine. 



[This plant is grown abundantly by the Boston 

 florists for the purpose indicated. Ed. G. M.] 



Yitis hypoglauca, F Mueller, Plants of Vic- 

 toria, i. 94 ; Cissus hypoglauca, A. Gray, Bot. 

 American exploring expedition, i. 272 ; C. aiistral- 

 asica, F. Mueller, in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. , i. Si 

 AmpelidesD. — A native of Victoria and New South 

 Wales, growing on the banks of forest streams and 

 rivers. A climber destitute of tendrils, having di- 

 gitate and 5-foliate leaves of an oval or oblong 

 form, light green above, and when young beautifully 

 glaucous b eneath ; flowers small, yellow, in axillary 

 cymes. This interesting plant now flowering for 

 the first time in this country, may be seen in the 

 New Temperate House, where, planted against the 

 supports, it has reached the gallery, and is trained 

 along the balustrade, freely producing its pretty, 

 although minute flowers. — Gard. Chronicle. 



