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- Lemoine, of Nancy, has raised a hybrid double-flowered Lilac, 
which he calls Syringa hyacinthijiora jktre-jyleno. It was raised from the variety 
called azurea plena, fertilised by pollen taken from several handsome single 
varieties, and it is believed that in this particular instance it vras the pollen of Syringa ohlata 
•which effected impregnation. In habit, foliage, early flo'v\"ering, and other particulars this 
variety closely resembles the male parent S. ohlata, the only character of the female parent 
being the double flowers. The name hyacinthiflora was given on account of the resemblance 
of the flowers to those of a Hyacinth in miniature. These are at first red, and with a slender 
tube as in S. ohlata, and borne in somewhat loose panicles. 
- ]In reference to Lime-kiln Heating^ Mr. Clarke, gardener to Lord Clan- 
morris, writes :—“ The practical economy or satisfactory results derived from the 
lime-kiln system depend chiefly if not altogether on local circumstances, viz.. Is 
the food for the kiln (limestone or chalk, also culm or coke) cheap and convenient? Is the 
lime required on the premises for building or valuable for the land ? Or is it likely to sell at a 
fair price if not wanted on the place ? The answer to these questions will decide, in a great 
measure, whether or not the system can be so effective in practice as its promoters 
claim for it, for just in proportion as the materials are cheap and convenient so will the 
saving be. We have had it working here (Creg Clone, Ireland) for the last three years, and 
its heating-power is never questioned. The first season we calculated all the cost of stones, 
culm, labour, &c., and found that the lime produced paid, and more than paid, the expenses; 
and since then every one is satisfied that the lime pays the expenses, so that we have a large 
range of houses heated for nothing ; but we have the limestone close at hand (of our own), 
and we get culm from Wales at about 15s. per ton.” ‘ 
- '^The new Japanese fruit, Diospyros Kaki, of the merits of which, under 
cultivation, our experience of it scarcely yet permits of a correct estimate being 
formed, does not appear chargeable with want of fertility. A young plant about 
.3 ft. high, and growing in an 8-in. pot, in one of Mr. G. F. Wilson’s orchard-houses, has borne 
a dozen fruits, which, when we saw them about the beginning of September, had swelled to 
a diameter of 2 in., the plant being Avell furnished with healthy, vigorous foliage, and having 
every appearance of carrying them on to maturity. The broad, smooth foliage renders the 
plant rather a good-looking object. 
- ^YBEiDiSED forms of Liliwn auratum seem to be turning up more 
freely than was suspected. Mr. BuU recently sent us a magniflcent form named 
criientum, imported by a private gentleman from Japan, in which the flowers 
are very large and widely expanded, with the usual white ground-colour marked on the 
sides of the perianth segments with blood-red spots, but having the characteristic yellow 
band entirely obliterated, and replaced by a band fully half an inch broad, of a rich deep 
sanguineous red, deepening in intensity towards the base. The crimson band is not only 
deeper in hue, and broader and more solid than in the forms named rubro-vittatum, but the 
yellow band is here entirely wanting. The stems are slender, and of a purplish hue, with a 
glaucous surface, and the leaves are small, and remarkable for their deep dull green colour. 
Next to L. Parkmanni, this is the finest Lily we have seen. Another, sent by Mr. Tillery, 
has a purplish tinge in its markings; there is a yellow bar about an inch long at the base of 
the segments, and the spots are of a purplish-red, the suffirsed colouring between them being 
of a de^cided purplish or lilac hue. The leaf in this case is of the broad type. Again, Mr. A. 
Waterer sends one in which there is no yellow, but a purplish-red band, the purplish hue 
being suffused over a portion of the flower, and the centre of the band forming a dark stripe 
of a blackish blood-red. The leaf is here peculiarily elongated and attenuated at the apex. 
- ‘SThe flne autumnal Lilium neilgherrense lias flowered finely in Mr. 
Wilson’s collection at Weybridge. The stems vary from 2 ft. to 3 ft. in height, 
purplish at the base. The leaves are lanceolate, sessile, alternate, 5 in. to 7 in. 
long, deep green, five-nerved. The flowers are slightly deflexed, very thick and fleshy in 
texture, and highly fragrant; narrowly funnel-shaped, the tube G in., and the whole expanded 
flower 7iin. long, the expansion of the segments being about Gin., and the tube If in. in 
