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■with sundry rectifications of the original text. As the majority of the articles are contributed 
by -well-known botanists, we may without egotism say that it is the most useful handy-book 
of reference we know, on matters which come within its scope. 
- ®HOSE who are at all familiar with the lovely Erica herbacea carnea 
will be prepared to appreciate at its full value a new white variety, which bears 
the name of Erica herhacea alba. The plant has the true dwarf tufted habit of 
E. herbacea, and the flowers are of the purest white. We saw it a short time 
since at the Knap Hill Nursery; as yet, we believe, it is very rare. 
- Cn New York the extreme Hardiness of Clematis Jackmanni has been 
fully tested. A recent letter from thence states that the writer had a plant of 0. 
Jackmanni on a pillar which withstood, entirely unprotected, a temperature of 
14° below zero during the winter, and of 110° above during the summer, subject to winds 
and storms. Surely, it is added, these plants are hardy enough for any climate Avhich does 
not knock the mercury^out of the bottom of the thermometer. 
- EEaEL has recently published an interesting note on the Vines of 
North America, China, and Japan, according to which the Cultivated Vine is not 
, of pure specific descent, but is a hybrid between Vitis lahrusca and V. vidpina, 
both of which are natives of North America, Japan, Mandchouida, and the Himalaya. M. 
Regel arrives at his conclusions from the following considerations :—1, The Vine is not known 
in a truly wild state, but only as an escape from cultivation ; 2, the two species, lahrusca and 
vulpina, are wild in the district of Asia where the cultivation of the Vkie originated ; .S, the 
European Vine introduced into America has never given such good results there as have the 
varieties of lahrusca and vulpina. 
- - Calluna vulgaris cuprea is a very remarkable hardy Heath, or 
Heather, grown by Mr. Waterer, of Knap Hill. It is most effective throughout 
the winter season, in consequence of the whole of the young growth changing to 
a bright coppery hue, after the manner of Biota orientalis elegantissima. 
-- Charles Lawson, Esq., of Borthwickhall, died on December 21, 
1873, in his 79th year. He was son of Mr.-Peter Lawson, the founder of the 
eminent nursery firm of that name, which, under the style of Peter Lawson and 
Son, he raised to a degree of unprecedented success. He was a few years since elected Lord 
Provost of Edinburgh, and amongst other distinctions, was a prominent member of the 
Highland and Agricultural Society. 
- W.R. Mobeis, Esq., Engineer to the Kent Waterworks Co., Deptford, 
died on January 11, aged 65, under very distressing circumstances, having been 
found lying dead in his own grounds. He was highly esteemed amongst florists 
and horticulturists as a most assiduous raiser of novelties. As a hybridiser of Pelargoniums 
Ml*. Morris was very successful, his Variegated Zonal Prince of Wales being still one of the 
best varieties in cultivation ; he also raised some very fine Bronze Zonals, and was generally 
a most accomplished cultivator, excelling, amongst other things, in his management of Pot 
Vines, and in his Bedding-out display. 
NEW PEAS. 
E have already noted (1873, 285) the New Peas certificated, after trial, 
during the past year at Chiswick, namely, Gem JDagmar,^ The Shah, 
Marvel, The Baron, all seedlings raised by Mr. Laxton; and we now 
give illustrations of two of those of preceding years, which are beginning 
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