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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ April, 
In a subsequent communication, Mr. Radclyffe writes:—“ This Peach does 
Mr. Rivers great credit, and from its earliness is a great Pomological gain. It is 
of excellent flavour, a good setter, of fair size, and hardy in its nature. The 
specimen sent was not so well coloured as it would have been had it grown on a 
south wall. It was grown on a severe east wall, where nothing but the Royal 
Georges set their fruit. The fruit was ripe on August 1, which was three weeks 
earlier than the earliest Peaches on the south wall. Had it been on the south 
wall, I believe it would have been ripe by July 14 or 16. It is a seedling from 
Rivers’s Early Albert Peach. The flowers are small, and the glands reniform. 
I have not yet fruited Early Beatrice or Early Rivers, but hope this summer to 
be able to compare the three together, both as to earliness and general excellence. 
The leaf-buds and fruit-buds are numerous and near together, which are great 
points. Between two fruit-buds there is a leaf-bud. Some good Peaches lack 
this attribute.”—T. M. 
TRITELEIA UNIFLORA IN POTS. 
' OME persons have said that it is difiicult to flower this charming hardy 
spring plant in pots. My experience of it is just the opposite to this, and 
so thoroughly successful, that I feel I should only be doing bare justice to a 
very useful flower by stating as much. In the spring of 1873 I put into 
32-pots some bulbs of Triteleia unijiora that I had been compelled to lift from 
the open ground through change of residence. I did not expect flowers that 
season, and only a few blossoms appeared ; the bulbs made a fair growth, and 
when the foliage began to decay, the pots were put by on a shelf in my green¬ 
house, and allowed to take care of themselves. In September last I noticed that 
the new growth was appearing. The plants were then sparingly but sufiSciently 
watered, and all through the winter they yielded charming tufts of fresh green 
foliage. The flowers began to put in an appearance about the end of February, and 
for several weeks past they have been most numerously produced, and they now 
contain from 20 to 25 flowers each, with succession flowers coming on. That is 
one great feature of the Triteleia —its successional-blooming character. People 
who see it for the first time are much charmed with it, and no wonder, when its 
chaste white flowers, tinted with azure-blue, are so profusely furnished. What if 
it is a Garlic ? It is a beautiful Garlic, and it emits no disagreeable odour, 
unless the leaves or flowers are handled. I have found it to be a most acceptable 
pleasure-giving, because early-flowering, plant, and I cherish and recommend it 
accordingly. 
As soon as the bulbs begin to show signs of going to rest, I shall allow them 
to dry off, and then repot about eight or ten of the largest in 32-pots, using a 
mixture of light loam and leaf-soil; and the pots I shall plunge in coal-ashes 
under a cool, shady wall, where they will take care of themselves till autumn 
comes round. Then I shall remove them to a cold greenhouse, where they will 
soon begin to make their growth. The smaller bulbs will be placed in store-pits 
