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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ August, 
skin is yellow, overspread on the sunny side with red, and copiously streaked 
with bright darker crimson streaks. Eye very large and open, set in a deep 
round and even basin, and with short stunted calyx. Stalk short, deeply-inserted. 
Flesh yellowish, tender, very juicy, with an agreeably acid flavour. A fine 
culinary and dessert apple.’’ This noble-looking Apple has been recently sent 
out b}^ Messrs. W. and J. Brown, of Stamford. Besides the Certificate at South 
Kensington above referred to, it gained a First-class Certificate at the Show held 
at the Crystal Palace in September, 1874.—T. Moore. 
GEONOMA CAEDERI. 
(^JfmS very elegant Palm has recently been introduced to our collections from 
the United States of Colombia by Mr. W. Bull, through his collector, Mr. 
Carder. The following is the substance of Mr. Bull’s .description:—A 
splendid stove Palm, of a very ornamental character, with erect, strongly- 
ribbed leaves. The petioles of the leaves are without spines, flat on the upper, 
rounded and asperous on the lower face, with the angles acute. The lamina, or 
leaf-blade, is pinnately parted, the segments unequal in width, varying from 
about half-an-inch to two and a half inches broad, while the upper part is con¬ 
fluent into a broad bilobed apex. It has been named in compliment to the 
collector by whom it was sent to this country.—T. Moore. 
CURRANTS, RED AND WHITE. 
SOMEWHAT extensive collection of Red and White Currants, got together 
at Chiswick, has been studied and reported on by Mr. Barron, with the 
result, as is usual in such cases, of reducing the number of reputedly distinct 
kinds considerably, and of choice sorts still more. Mr. Barron’s report is 
based on the crop of 1875. There is, he remarks, perhaps no class of fruits in 
ordinary cultivation in this country in which so much confusion exists in regard to , 
their nomenclature, or their distinctive merits, as in that of Currants. Names 
exist in plentiful variety, but the fruits of all the kinds are very similar, so that 
it has been impossible to distinguish them. The varieties may vary to some 
extent as to the size of the bunches, berries, their colour, cropping qualities, &c.; 
but as these are considerably affected by cultivation, situation, &:c., their, com¬ 
parative and distinctive merits can only be ascertained when all the varieties are 
grown together under the same conditions, as in the present instance. The col¬ 
lection, consisting of forty-five reputedly distinct varieties, was got together from 
various quarters, and represents the most of the names to be met with in English 
nurseries, and a few of the French. Altogether there exist about sixty distinct 
names as applied to the Red Currants, and about fifteen to the Whites. 
The classification is based chiefly on the appearance of the plants, their 
foliage, habit of growth, &c. This is very decided, distinct, and easily to be recog¬ 
nised. The typical names adopted may not in every instance be correct, but the 
varieties given as synonyms are all identical the one with the other as they have 
