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and rather deeply set. The skin is of a clear greenish-yellow on the shaded 
side, very much suffused and streaked with red and bright scarlet on the exposed 
parts, this high-colouring giving it, especially when hanging on the tree, a very 
Baechard’s Seedling Apple. 
beautiful appearance. The flesh is Arm, of a pleasant sub-acid flavour, tolerably 
good for dessert, but more valued for cooking purposes. It is in season from 
October to Christmas, is an almost certain and most abundant cropper, and is 
greatly to be recommended as a standard orchard fruit.—A. F. B. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
OME few weeks since we met with, in the Knap Hill Nursery, a variety of 
St. Dabeoc’s Heath, Dabeocia polifolia variicolor^ remarkable for the 
dissimilarity in the colour of its flowers. The plant, which is perfectly 
hardy, forms a cushion-like, low evergreen shrub, suitable, from its habit, 
for associating ■with snch plants as hardy Heaths. Its chief peculiarity, however, is that 
its flowers are sometimes purple, sometimes white, sometimes of various intermediate 
shades of blush-white, pallid purple, or pink. In the majority of cases the spikes bear 
flowers uniform in colour, all purple, all blush, or all white, but these are so mixed up on 
the plant, that it appears as though two or three varieties were accidentally associated in the 
tuft. That they all spring from one source is, however, abundantly proved, by the fact that 
from time to time, and not unfrequently, there appears a spike on which both pure purple 
and pure white flowers are associated, or even sometimes may be seen flowers in which one- 
half the tube is. white and the other half purple. Mr. Waterer has grown it for some years, 
with the view of testing the permanency of its character—which does not vary in the least. 
IEn the Adiantum ffracillmumwe have one of the most elegant ferns in 
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