OCTOBER. 
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CAMELLIA-FLOWERED PEACH. 
(Plate 131.) . 
In our February number of the present year we gave a coloured 
illustration of the charmingly variegated leaved Farfugium grande, 
a Coltsfoot-like plant, which it is expected will prove eminently 
useful for rockwork. 
We now introduce to the notice of our readers another no less 
valuable Chinese plant,—the Camellia-flowered Peach, a shrub, or 
rather small tree, which bids fair to be an acquisition .of great 
importance to ornamental gardening. When Mr. Fortune was in 
China for the Horticultural Society he obtained those beautiful 
spring flowering shrubs the double white and crimson Peaches, 
both of which have been much prized in this country. It turns 
out, however, that these are not the only varieties of double 
flowered Peaches which the Chinese possess, for Mr. Glendinning, 
of the Chiswick Nursery, now holds the stock of others, even 
much more striking and beautiful. Of these, one has rosy pink 
flowers nearly two inches in diameter, and very double; another 
is said to be Carnation striped; while a third has blossoms fully 
two inches in diameter, of an intense deep crimson, and very 
double. This has been named the Camellia-flowered Peach, and 
is that which we have this month selected for illustration. Of its 
value for decorative purposes our readers have therefore an 
opportunity of judging for themselves. Further particulars 
respecting it, furnished by Mr. Glendinning himself, we hope to 
give in a future number. 
In addition to these Peaches, a double blossomed Prunus also 
flowered last spring in the Chiswick Nursery. The blooms of 
this, which were thickly set on long slender twiggy branches, are 
very round and double, of a delicate pink colour, and upwards of 
an inch in diameter. It has been named Prunus triloba, and we 
need not add is in all respects a highly interesting species. 
THE POTATO DISEASE. 
The very rapid progress which has marked the spread of the Potato 
disease since the violent thunder-storms of August is exciting attention; 
and as the general opinion inclines to the belief that, in some way or 
other, the intensity of the disease is greatly accelerated through their 
agency, we bring the subject before our readers. 
The Editor of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, by way of explaining this 
feature of the disease to his readers, states that it may be owing to the 
nitric acid formed in the atmosphere during a thunder-storm reaching 
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