1877 . ] 
THE CALVILLE BLANCHE APPLE.—ARALIA FILICIFOLIA. 
125 
Glory’s, in a few days, and is mucli more correctly proportioned ; paste nearly 
circular, which Glory’s never is, though I suppose there is no Auricula in exist¬ 
ence that has such density and smoothness of paste as Glory has; tube fine, 
yellow, lasting till the end. The other pip was a black-ground white, perhaps 
rather small, but better than Regular, which is very correct, but decidedly 
under-sized. 
There is sufiScient proof in all this that the Auricula is advancing, and best 
of all, that among the present growers some are working onward with seedling¬ 
raising, which, like a walk through an unknown picturesque country, leads one on 
unwearied through many unexpected beautiful scenes.—F. D. Horner, Kirhhy- 
Malzeard^ Ripon. 
THE CALVILLE BLANCHE APPLE. 
STEVENS’ estimate of the qualities of this incomparable Apple (page 
97) quite accords with my own opinion, for I have grown it largely in 
pots, and as single cordons along the bottom of south walls. Grown on 
cordons on the French doucin stock, it bears abundant crops ; and on 
the bottom of a south wall a little protection can be given to the blossoms in 
frosty springs; but to see it in all its beauty and size, it is best grown in pots in 
an orchard-house, as at Trentham. When well grown and ripened, it is one of 
the very best keeping varieties ; and in the months of February, March, and 
April no other Apple proves to h.e so grateful to invalids, for it melts in the mouth 
on eating it, without leaving any residue. Some years ago, in the Florist and 
P oMOLOGiST, I had to defend this variety against a fruit-grower in one of the 
Channel Islands, who was running it down as not worthy of the high price given at 
the time for French-grown specimens—2s. each fruit—in Covent Garden Market. 
When well grown, it is too valuable for baking purposes, but in some seasons 
here, where the fruit has been grown on espaliers, and not ripened well, it has 
been used in the kitchen, and found the most delicious of all sauce apples. 
There is another variety of Apple, when grown in pots, of the greatest 
beauty, namely, Cox^s Pomona. This variety, with a dozen or two of its highly- 
coloured fruit on a little tree, and placed on the dinner-table, is a worthy com¬ 
panion to the yellow-fruited Calville Blanche. When the Pomona is on the 
Paradise-stock, and grown in pots either in the orchard or in the open air, with 
plenty of air and sun-heat, it never fails in colouring its fruit to the brilliant red 
so attractive in apples.— William Tillery, Welhech. 
AKALIA FILICIFOLIA. 
are indebted to Mr. W. Bull for the use of the accompanying woodcut 
of one of the most promising new plants of the season, in the ornamental- 
foliage class. It comes from the South Sea Islands, and was exhibited 
last year at the Brussels International Exhibition, under the title of 
Aralia f^pectabilis; but the name of which was given to it by its 
