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the winter season, which did not admit of their getting enough rest to long maintain 

 a healthy condition. 



Like P. Sumatrana in the shape of its light yellow sepals and petals, with numerous cinnamon bars. Lateral 

 divisions of the lip retuse, sulphur coloured, keel blunt with a knob parallel to the anterior margin. Between 

 both on the disk is a number of retrorse-toothletted orange plates, and two conical papulas terminating in bristles 

 stand before the base of the median partition. The latter is oblong ligulate, keel membranous. Anterior part 

 light purple, the superior orange. — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xviii. p. 134. 



Pernettya mucronata, varieties of. In 1879 or 1880 (we write from memory), 

 Mr. L. J. Davis, of the well-known Ogle's Grove Nursery, Hillsborough, Co. Down, 

 exhibited at one of the Royal Horticultural Society's fortnightly meetings some new 

 varieties, raised from seed, of Pernettya mucronata : and again at the October meeting 

 of 1882 he sent a number of seedlings raised, we understand, from the plants above 

 alluded to, but very much superior to them. Nothing in their way could be more 

 charming ; they were shown in pots, but evidently had been taken up from the open 

 ground ; dwarf and compact, ranging from a foot to eighteen inches high, and profusely 

 clothed with most beautiful berries in different colours, from creamy white, through the 

 various shades of pink and deep red to almost black; so densely were the shoots in many 

 cases furnished with their pretty fruit that they were not in appearance unlike large 

 heads of maize, with the corn in them closely packed. Some half dozen of the most 

 distinct, bearing the following names, received First Class Certificates : P. alia, 

 berries white ; P. sanguinea, dark crimson ; P. purpurea, pale purple ; P. carnea nana, 

 flesh colour; P. macrocarpa, a distinct shade of crimson; P. nigra major, berries almost 

 black. All these are quite equal in their way to Crataegus Pyracaniha, the well-known 

 scarlet-berried shrub, so often used for covering walls, with the additional advantage 

 that the subjects of our notice carry a profuse crop of berries in so dwarfed a state. 

 They deserve to be cultivated by every one who can appreciate handsome shrubs with 

 pretty deep green foliage. Independent of their berries, they are very effective when in 

 bloom ; the flowers are white. 



