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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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in tHe stove, it blooms in the same profusion, only the foliage and flowers are 
larger. The flowering season generally lasts from January till April, when it 
remains dormant for a short time, and then recommences to grow, and continues 
to flower till the end of the summer. 
For compost use good pure yellow loam. It can be grown in pots, where it 
is not convenient to plant it out. For very small gardens it may be grown in an 
earthenware pan or tub sunk in the ground to the level of the grass, with the 
turf slightly raised for a foot or so round the margin; thus placed, it has a par¬ 
ticularly neat appearance, as nothing is seen but the plant and the water in which, 
it grows. 
The Aponogeton monostachyon is a native of the East Indies, and produces 
pink flowers, but requires a stove ; in general habit it resembles the last, but the 
leaves are smaller, and the flower-spike is undivided. It is well worth cultivating. 
The A. angustifolium^ sent from the Cape in 1788, and producing white 
flowers, appears to be lost to the country. A. ci'ispum^ of Ceylon, has also dis¬ 
appeared ; it has white flowers, and must not be confounded with the Potamogeton 
crispum of our ponds and rivers. The Cape A.junceum, formerly in the collection of 
the Messrs. Knight and Perry, of Chelsea, does not now appear to be in cultiva¬ 
tion in this country. Those who have correspondents in Ceylon, or at the Cape, 
would do well to try to reintroduce the three last-named species.—W. Buckley,. 
Tooting. 
NEW FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 
OOD Fruits and good Vegetables are fully as important as good flowers— 
if not indeed more so ; hence we are not disposed to join in the chorus of 
complaint which is often heard as to the overwhelming supply of novelties, 
or supposed novelties, by which, it is affirmed, the unwary are not infre¬ 
quently taken in and mulcted. Good old things are not indeed to be lightly 
cast aside ; they should be held firmly till something better is safe in hand, but in 
these progressive days there is and must be a striving everywhere for improve¬ 
ment, and it is the efforts thus made towards progression—not always, it may be 
true, crowned with success—which give us the flood of novelties complained of. 
From amongst these, however, it is indeed odd if some real gain is not annually 
secured,—a mere gradation it may be in most cases, as to size, quality, or pro¬ 
ductiveness, but here and there showing that an entirely new vein has been struck. 
The past year has not been so prolific of novelties in the way of Fruits, as some 
of its predecessors. This may in some degree be accounted for by the uncon¬ 
genial nature of the spring of 1869, which had a most disastrous effect upon 
fruit crops generally. 
Commencing with the Grape, the king of fruits, we have to welcome, as a 
standard late white Grape, Mr. W. Thomson’s White Lady Doivne's, a variety 
possessing all the good qualities of its black parent, the well-known Lady Downe’s 
