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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



Pelargonium (Zonale) Adonis. — Mr. Hally, Blackkeath [F.C.O.].— A fine horseshoe 

 scarlet, favourably reported on in Vol. iii., page 75, as having been grown at Chiswick. It 

 is a fine bright scarlet of good form, with a white eye. 



Pelargonium Aristides. — G. W. Hoyle, Esq. [S.C.C.]-— A showy variety of the rosy 

 class, having some tolerably good properties. 



Pelargonium Maid oe Honour. — W. Beck, Esq., Isleworth [C.]. — One of the pleasing 

 because distinct-looking sorts, with a purplish or lilac tone of colour. This was rewarded 

 chiefly for its colour, which is that of Viola, on which it was considered to be an improvement. 



_ Petunia Mrs. Sherbrook. — Mr. Turner, Slough [0.]. — A large-flowered magenta-and- 

 white-striped sort, with angular reflexing lobes to the corolla. 



Pinanga, sp. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [C. and B.]. — A handsome pinnate Palm from the 

 Philippine Islands, with few broad pinnee incisely toothed at the end, and of a mottled 

 dark green colour. 



Rhynchospermum .tasminoides variegatum. — Messrs. A. Henderson & Co., Pine 

 Apple Nursery [0. and B.]. — A greenhouse evergreen shrub, which promises to assume a 

 very ornamental character. Its leaves are marbled with greyish-green, and freely edged 

 with cream colour, forrning a very irregular border, sometimes, indeed, occupying nearly 

 the whole of one side of the leaf. It had been imported from Japan. 



Sklliguea pothifolia.— Messrs. Veitch & Son [S.C.C. and S.B.]. — A handsome and 

 distinct Fern, introduced from Japan, and found also in India. It had a stoutish creeping 

 rhizome, from which rose up the erect pinnate fronds a couple of feet high, and divided into 

 long linear-lanceolate pinnas, which were a good deal attenuated at the point, and distinctly 

 decurrent at the base, so as to form a wing to the rachis, whence the plant has sometimes 

 been called 8. d.ecurrens. The fructification is in naked oblique lines. 



Taxus hibernica var. eastigiata. — Messrs. Fisher, Holmes, & Co., Sheffield [F.CC. 

 and S.K.].— This was exhibited as a perfectly hardy constant variety, obtained from seed of 

 the Irish Yew. It proved to be a very beautiful shrub, of close fastigiate habit ; the young 

 leaves golden with a green rib. This golden tinge was very regularly developed over the 

 several plants sent, and was a strongly-marked feature. 



Trichomanes crispum var. pilosum. — Messrs. Low & Co., Clapton [S.C.C. and S.B.]. — ■ 

 A beautiful Film-Fern with long, narrow, pinnate, translucent fronds, clothed with rufous 

 hairs : hence it is sometimes called Trichomanes rufum. 



Verbena Othello. — Mr. Wills [C.]. — A close-habited, dark, claret-coloured sort, con- 

 sidered to be an acquisition as a bedding variety. It was stated to be a seedling from 

 Robert Burns. 



Woodwardia japonica. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [S.C.C. and S.B.]. — A fine Japanese 

 Fern of the bold-habited class, quite dissimilar from W. orientalis recently introduced from 

 the same country. The fronds are ovate-pinnate, a couple of feet high ; the pinnas broadish, 

 notched Avith good-sized, shallow, roundish lobes. 



{To be continued.) 



REVIEW. 



The Rose Amateurs' Guide, containing Ample Descriptions of all the Fine Leading 

 Roses, Regularly Glassed in their Respective Families, their History and Mode of Culture. 

 By Thomas Rivers. Eighth Edition. London : Longmans. 



This is the eighth edition of a work which has now been for many years before the 

 public, and which we believe was among the first to disseminate instruction on the subject 

 of Eose-cultivation in this country. "We remember the early editions, thin and lanky as 

 they were, and we sometimes stumble over one now ; but what a contrast do they present to 

 the portable and substantial volume now before us, <( enlarged, corrected, and improved," as 

 it is with much new and practical matter ! 



Among the new matter we have a note on the old Double Apple-bearing Rose : — 



" The true tree Rose is the old variety called the Double Apple-bearing Rose, the ' Rosa 

 sylvestris pomifera major ' of Miller's 'Gardeners' Dictionary.' At the commencement of 

 the present century this kind was the only tree Rose of our gardens, with the exception of 

 the double Sweet Briar, which in strong soils often formed itself into a fine standard tree. 



In the 'front court' of my father's garden, I remember two fine tree Roses, one the 

 double Apple-bearing ; the other the Double Sweet Briar ; they had large heads many feet 

 through, and stems gnarled and knotted, measuring 2 feet in circumference : their beauty, 

 when their large heads were covered with flowers, was most striking, and the polite stage - 

 coachmen of those days used to pull up to allow their passengers to have a good look at 

 those glorious trees — one almost regrets that such pleasant times are gone for ever. The 

 trees were destroyed by a heavy fall of snow in the autumn before they had shed their 



