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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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according to size, from 12s. to 25s. each. Such fruit must, especially in the winter season, 
enter into formidable competition with our home-grown produce. Those not imported in pots, 
were separately packed each in a cradle—that is, the stem was made fast in a hole in the 
centre of a hoard, of sufficient diameter to clear the circumferenee of the fruit; a corresponding 
piece was placed above the crown, and the two were connected together by thin laths, placed 
sufficiently far apart to allow a free circulation of air, and yet so as to prevent the fruit from 
being bruised. Thus packed they came to hand in capital condition, though not so good as 
those which had been brought upon the plants. 
— fttr. Rose, formerly gardener at Floors Castle, now of Frogmore, 
before leaving the former place, was entertained at a dinner given by his 
friends, on which occasion a Presentation was made to him, as a token of 
respect and esteem on the occasion of his entering upon the office of Head Gardener to 
Her Majesty. The testimonial consisted of a purse of sovereigns and a gold wateh and 
chain. 
- jcl Golden Coleus has been obtained by Mr. McPhail, gardener to 
C. Telford, Esq., of Bromley. It is a sport from C. Blumei, which it 
resembles, except that the green is exchanged for a decided yellow tint, like 
that of the so-called golden-leaved Pelargoniums. It will probably form a good contrast 
with the rich dark-coloured sorts now in cultivation. The variety has been named Telfordii, 
and has passed into the hands of Mr. Wimsett. 
- &mong the Seedling Azaleas at Ghent were three which appeared 
very desirable in point of colour, surpassing everything which approached 
them in brilliancy—namely, Roi d'Hollande, a rich vermilion, spotted on 
the upper segments, and remarkable for smoothness and substance ; James 
Veitch, a most brilliant tint of magenta rose ; and Colons nova, a rich glow¬ 
ing crimson. 
-Several very beautiful varieties of Double Chinese Primroses 
have been sent us by Messrs. Windebank & Kingsbury. They comprise a 
double white with rosy purple stripes, a double blush, a double carmine 
rose, and a double rosy lilac, all exquisite flowers. The various colours are 
represented amongst fern-leaved varieties, as well as those with foliage of the usual type. 
These new forms are, many of them, remarkable for their dense and symmetrical flowers, 
the striped ones being the least so ; but all are decided acquisitions. 
- Pn addition to Mr. W. Paul’s strain of Hardy Primroses, a fine 
and extensive collection is in the hands of Mr. Barron, at Elvaston 
Castle. He has some twenty or more distinct varieties. The darkest is a 
deep purplish rose flower, with a showy orange centre; the palest a really 
pure white Primrose, with a conspicuous and striking yellow centre. Other flowers are 
of rose, violet, salmon-rose, lilac, and fawn-coloured ground-colours, some of the last-named 
shade being very novel and pretty. The flowers are in some cases unusually large, and 
all stout in texture, and of good form. All these are Primroses, for as yet there is no 
trace of the stem and truss of flowers like the Polyanthus. 
- 0f all the Palms, Cliamaerops excelsa is the hardiest. C. humilis, 
which is indigenous in the south of Europe, and grows well at Montpellier, 
is very hardy when adult, but tender in the young state. M. Sahul, a 
nurseryman of Montpellier, had, side by side, beds of young plants of 
C. humilis and of C. excelsa, of one or two years’ growth, each plant having three or four 
small leaves, exposed to a severe frost in January last (therm. 10 °F.), and all those of 
C. humilis were destroyed, while those of C. excelsa were unhurt. Adult plants of 
C. humilis were not injured. 
