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Whetlier planted out as a stove climber in situations appropriate to subjects 
of tbis slender babit, or grown in pots and trained over a suitable trellis, it bas 
a most elegant and pleasing cbaracter. Tbe merit of tbe plant, as one of tbe 
ornamental-foliaged class, bas been well attested by tbe award of a First-class 
Certificate botb from tbe Eoyal Horticultural and tbe Eoyal Botanic Societies. It 
bas been introduced by Mr. Bull, and was sent out by bim in tbe early part of 
tbe present year.—T. M. 
FEUIT NOTES. 
[UR experience here enables me to endorse all that Mr. Earley says (p. 218) 
in favour of Prince of Wales Nectarine. We bave bad a fine crop of it in 
an unbeated bouse, large in size, witb a ricb refreshing fiavour. We never 
saw either wasps or flies near tbe fruit. Being a strong grower, we find 
that if too liberally supplied witb manure in tbe soil in winter, tbe fruit is apt to 
crack in tbe following season. 
We bave recently gathered from a small plant of tbe Negro Largo Fig 
several good fruits, large for tbe size of tbe pot in which tbe plant is growing. 
Tbe flavour is all that can be desired in a Fig. When better known, tbis variety 
will be largely grown.—A. Henderson, Thoresby. 
OYDONIA MAULEI. 
® HIS new kind of fruit, introduced by Messrs. Maule and Son, from Japan, and 
named Pyrus (Cydonici) Maulei^on tbe authority of tbe Gardener^ Chronicle^ 
f is likely to prove a very useful acquisition to tbe realms botb of Flora and 
Pomona. Tbe flowers, though not so large as those of tbe older species, intro¬ 
duced about tbe year of Waterloo (1815), and known to us uniformly, years ago, as 
Cydonia japonica^ are nevertheless very pleasing and showy, being of a striking 
light orange-red colour. Tbe fruits, which are borne abundantly in clusters, are less 
in size than those of C. japonica^ irregular in form, deeply corrugated, possess¬ 
ing deep “ eyes,” and of a bright waxy colour when ripe. Tbe flavour of tbe fruits 
is singularly raw and astringent, and such as to give birth to a notion of their 
worthlessness, but a conserve or marmalade made from them bas an original 
flavour, and it is not at all improbable that it may be turned to account in tbis 
manner, and that used as an addition to apple-jelly,it maybe found extremely useful. 
We possess here, then, at once an ornamental deciduous shrub, of tbe very 
first order—ornamental, that is, in regard to its peculiar, lucid green foliage, its 
scarlet blossoms, and its autumnal clusters of yellow fruits. Few, if any, plants 
are better adapted for planting alongside wilderness-walks, or to grow amongst 
or in association witb rock-work or artificial ruins. Tbe blooms borne amidst 
such foliage, and on tbe characteristic wiry wood, witb its striking thorny appur¬ 
tenances, would serve to light up any scene of which they formed part; while 
possessing tbe aspect of a bastard apple or pear, a running-back from tbe original 
pome, like a forbidden fruit, it would seem to be a remnant of Paradise. But 
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