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CISSUS DISCOLOR AS A WALL PLANT. 
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THE DYMOND PEACH. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
6|^UR figure of this fine mid-season Peach was made from specimens which 
ripened on the open wall about the middle of September. It will be seen 
that it is a large and handsome fruit, and being at the same time a variety 
of hardy constitution, a healthy and robust grower, producing frait of 
excellent quality, it is a variety which can be recommended for general cultivation. 
It appears to have been sent out by Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, some years 
ago, but to have been since somewhat overlooked, amidst the flood of novelties 
which has latterly poured in upon us. 
The fruit is above medium size, roundish, somewhat flattened, with a well- 
marked suture, and a terminal depression. The skin is finely downy, pale greenish- 
yellow where shaded, marbled and mottled with dull rosy crimson on the 
sunny side, passing to Venetian red where most exposed. The flesh is greenish- 
white, very slightly stained with red next the stone, from which its parts freely; 
it is melting and very juicy, with a fine, brisk flavour. A really good peach, 
combining size, with high quality in its fruit. 
The leaves are strongly serrated, but bear no glands that we could discover ; 
there are, however, one or two enlarged teeth developed towards the base of the 
leaf. The healthy robust habit of the tree is, of itself, a recommendation of no 
mean value; and altogether the Dijinond is a variety which may be planted with 
advantage.—T. Moore. 
CISSUS DISCOLOR AS A WALL PLANT. 
DON’T mean merely to be trained on walls, unless against those painted or 
) washed very white. This exquisite Cissus is rather tame on ordinary dirty 
or dark walls, if merely trained against them in the usual way. The 
^ most effective example of this the writer has seen, was that of a wall 
clothed with alternate broad bands in longitudinal lines of Cissus discoloi' and 
Stephanotis Jlorihunda. When the latter was in full flower, the effect was rich 
and beautiful in the extreme. Clerodendrori Bedfourianum would no doubt be 
nearly as effective as a contrast to the Cissus. It would not, however, equal 
the Stephanotis.^ as the red corolla would reduce the strength of the contrast. 
A silver-leaved Cissus is nearly of equal beauty with the dark velvety variegation 
of the C. discolor. Perhaps the plant that contrasts best with the Cissus alike 
in style and character is the Discorea argyrea., and that is by no means equal to 
the Cissus. 
But neither the Cissus.^ nor its best contrasts, trained against walls, is the 
purport of this short note, but rather to commend in the highest terms the 
Cissus discolor as a wall-furnisher, when planted in pockets as small specimens, 
and allowed to depend over the projections of cork, or other rusticated walls. 
Treated thus, the Cissus becomes virtually a new plant in the hands of the 
