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THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 
the best new plant, at Ghent last year, and has been 
awarded a first-class certificate by the Floral Committee 
of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
PYRUS MAULEI. 
All persons interested in the culture of flowers and 
fruits must have heard a good deal lately of this new 
and near ally of the Japan Quince. We have recently 
had an opportunity of seeing a flowering branch, and 
anything more rich and ornamental it is difficult to 
conceive; the branches are loaded with transparent scar- 
let flowers of considerable size, and somewhat after the 
manner of, but far handsomer than, Pyrus Japonica. 
The plant is believed to be quite hardy, atid it flowers 
late. It is an invaluable addition to our gardens as an 
ornamental shrub, and to our orchards as a fruit tree. 
It grafts best upon the thorn, and is sent out by 
Messrs. Maule, of Bristol. A full-size engraving of a 
flower-laden branch is given in the Gardeners’ Chronicle 
for June 13th last. 
THE HOLLYHOCK DISEASE. 
This fungus (Puccinia Malvacearum) is proving a most 
destructive pest among hollyhocks, and is clearly as 
terrible a plague amongst them as the potato disease is 
amongst potatoes. In gardens it seems to break out 
suddenly, and only ends in the total disfigurement and 
destruction of every Hollyhock in the beds. Mr. D. J. 
Fish sent some plants in a fearful state for inspection to 
the last meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
We believe the only remedy (if it can be so called) is 
the hopeless one indeed, of taking up every plant, root 
and branch, and burning it. 
CROTUM YOLUTUM. 
This plant wffll specially commend itself to all lovers of 
singular and eccentric forms amongst plants. In habit 
it is most distinct and showy, and the leaves have the 
singular and constant property of curling themselves 
inwards towards the stem, after the manner of the 
volute in the Ionic Capital, or a ram’s horn. The deep 
green leaves are six inches long, from one to two inches 
in breadth, aud beautifully marked with a golden bar 
down the centre, from which spring yellow veins. The 
curving of the leaf-blades causes the edges to become 
elevated, and so form a channel down the centre. The 
plant came originally from the South Sea Islands, and 
has been exhibited by Mr. William Bull, of Chelsea, 
and awarded a first-class certificate by the Royal Hor- 
ticultural Society. 
NEW VARIETY OF AMARYLLIS. 
Messrs. Henderson and Son, of St. John’s Wood, have 
now in bloom a very distinct and beautiful Amaryllis, a 
true hybrid between Ilippeastrum pardinum and Ama- 
ryllis reticulata; rose-coloured ground with a white bar 
in the centre of each lobe, and fine rich magenta-rose 
lines running through each petal. It is certainly one of 
the most elegant flowers in its section yet seen by us, 
with this desirable feature — that it has a four- or five- 
flowered scape. 
PANCRATIUM NOTATUM. 
This plant has recently been flowering in very fine con- 
dition in Mr. Bull’s nursery at Chelsea. Its flowers are 
white and deliciously fragrant, and produced in clusters 
of from nine to twelve, in erect scapes. It is altogether 
a most desirable plant. 
CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
B. S. Williams’s Catalogue of Orchids, Ferns, Palms, 
and general Stove and Greenhouse Plants, Roses, 
Vines, Pines, &c., is an exceedingly good handbook of the 
best new introductions of the season ; comprising such 
Stove, Greenhouse, and Hardy Plants as may be found 
in the extensive and well-known Victoria and Para- 
dise Nurseries at Upper Holloway. The special 
novelties comprise six new varieties of Achimines, 
Adiantum gracillimum, Agave Taylorii ; the new pure 
white Amaryllis (A. virginalis), and the ivory-white 
Anthurium, A. Williamsii ; together with new Azaleas, 
Fuchsias, Geraniums, Gloxinias, Verbenas, Violas, &c., 
with many new plants of both botanical and gardening 
interest far too numerous to mention in detail. The 
illustrations by the Messrs. Fitch are excellent, but the 
others are far from doing anything like justice to the 
originals. This is especially the case with Adiantum 
gracillimum, one of the most delicately lovely plants 
under cultivation. 
Dick Radclyffe and Co. — Catalogue of Plants, Seeds, 
Gardening Requisites. 
There is great probability in the opinion that the 
colour and scent of the petals is to be ascribed to the 
presence of pollen within them ; it probably exists in 
them in an imperfectly disengaged state, or rather com- 
bined with and diluted by other fluids. The very beauty 
of the colours induces the idea that the substance con- 
tained in the petals, though in an extremely purified 
condition, has not yet attained the very highest degree 
of purity, at which stage it appears white and colourless. 
— Goethe. 
