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THE FLORTST AND POMOLOGHST 
f October, 
- ®HE splendid new Esdischolizia Mandarin^ for which Messrs. Carter 
and Co. recently obtained a First-class Certificate, was derived from Eschscholtzia 
rosea. At the St. Osyth seed grounds, the foreman, Mr. Robert Gardener, having 
detected on tlie exterior of the blossoms of a plant of E. rosea a tendency to come orange 
instead of merely rose, duly marked it in order to perpetuate this departure from the 
usual type. E. rosea is of Continental origin, of a delicate flesh-colour on the exterior, with a 
pale-rose reverse to the petals. In the case of the selected sport, the rose-colour had 
deepened to a reddish orange, and a few years of careful selection brought it to the form 
of the gorgeous Mandarin. It requires to be seen in the morning, or late in the after¬ 
noon, when the large showy blossoms are half-expanded, to appreciate its superb floral 
expression. It is then of a rich blood-orange hue. A very fine double-white variety has also 
appeared at St. Osyth, as white as the falling snow, and as fully double as an Eschscholtiiia 
can well be. 
- Baines, writing of tlie ChesJmnt Eoses, remarks:—Of the new 
Roses for next year, Eohert Marnoch may be described as a rich brownish crimson, 
very distinct in colour and very fine. Mrs. Laxton [figured by us some time 
since] is a light crimson, intermediate in colour betwixt Marie Baumann and Senateur Vaisse 
—a finely-formed flower. Clinibing Bessie Johnson is identical in colour vdth Bessie 
Johnson, from which it is a sport, with a decidedly climbing habit. John Bright is a rich, 
glowing, very dark, bold, imbricated flower. Totally apart from what it may turn out to 
be as an exhibition variety, it is unmistakably one of the very finest garden Eoses ever 
raised; in the whole of the Eoses here, comprising many acres, and every proved 
kind worth growing, I saw nothing amongst dark kinds equal to it for general efl’ect. It 
cannot fail to become a universal favourite. 
- New Journals.) we may note that at a recent meeting of the Com¬ 
mittee of the National Rose Society, it was determined to publish in or about 
November a Rosarian’s Year-book, exclusively devoted to the Rose, and to contain 
a full report of* the great show at St. James’s Hall, to be issued free to members—price to 
non-members. Is. The Eoyal Horticultural Society has also recommenced the issue of its 
Journal, under the editorship of Mr. Andrew Murray, who has been appointed ‘ scientific 
director of the Society.’ 
- ®HB new Campamda macrostyla is an annual of straggling habit, with 
large erect open bell or cup-shaped purple flowers, having a calyx like that of the 
Canterbury Bell, and a very long style, the stigmas of which cohere into a club- 
shaped mass. It is a very distinct-looking plant, which lovers of annuals should be on the 
look-out for. It is a species from Asia Minor. The flowers are of unusual size for a 
Campanula. 
-JSe. Hugh Algernon Weddell died on July 22, at Poitiers. Dr. 
Weddell was of English extraction, but had long resided in France, where he 
was for some years an aide naturaliste of the Jardin des Plantes. On behalf of 
the French Government, he undertook during five years a voyage in Southern Peru and 
Bolivia, contributing largely to our knowledge of the botany of those regions. He earned 
for himself a well-founded and widely extended reputation for his “ Histoire Naturelle 
des Quinquinas; or. Monograph of the Genus Cinchona,’ a splendid publication, which has 
formed the basis of what has since been wi’itten on the systematic history of the 
Cinchona. 
— m - LE Comte LitoNCE de Lambertye died at the Chateau de Chal- 
trait, on August 30, at the age of 68. He was the author of several works on 
garden botany, which M. Carriere describes as ‘‘ discreet in words, and very rich 
in facts.” 
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