October 3,183?. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
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pillars, which infest them. A most destructive disease has lately 
attache 1 the trees in the south of the Tolima, which is one of the very 
richest distiicts in Colombia. This disease does not seem to have been 
investigated, and no remedy has been suggested, but the extent of its 
APHELANDRA CRISTATA. 
At a recent meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society a cultural 
commendation was awarded for an uncommonly fine example of the 
ravages will be understood from the fact that one of the plantations 
attacked produced only 175 lbs. instead of IS,000 lbs. of Cocoa, an 
astonishing and deplorable decrease. 
above named handsome old plant, from the Pendell Court Gardens. The 
flower heads are much larger and of a brighter colour—a rich shade of 
red—than any other cultivated Aphelandra, and when the plant has 
