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THE ELOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ June, 
all throxigli tlao month was cold and dry, and did little to forward vegetation. May commenced 
with a showery day, and thunder at 4 p.m., but dry days and cold east winds again set in-, 
which lasted till the 11th. We may now hope that with increased heat and moisture all 
crops will be benefited, and that a fruitful season will yet be the result.”-Mr. Saul reports 
from West Yorkshire:—“We have had a long continuance of cold northerly winds, but no 
frosts to do any material injury. On the 3rd of May the theianometer registered only 3° of 
frost, and on th5 4th only 4°. Fruit of every kind will be very plentiful in this part of the country. 
Apricots, Peaches, and Nectarines have set very well. Pears and Cherries are also setting 
well. Plums have been very full of fine bloom, and I think will stand. Apples are now (May 
14) very beautiful; the flowers are large and fine, and the crop will be most abundant. 
Bush fruit is very abundant. Everything is very late, but the rains we have had during the 
last few days have wonderfully invigorated everything. We only want a little warmth and 
sunshine now, and things would soon look most cheering.” 
• -- noticed at tlie recent exliibition at South Kensington the new 
Rustic Plant-Case^ and also an Aquarium^ of which the accompanying figures 
give representations. Such cases are extremely useful for the enlivening of 
gloomy-window prospects, and afford a means for converting 
an eye-sore into an object of interest. The Fem Case is so 
constructed as to form an aquarium at the bottom, rocks, 
supported by columns, foianing below pretty caverns for fish, 
while ferns can be planted above. The cases according to these 
designs can be made of any size. Those we refer to were 
exhibited by Messrs. Dick Kadclyffe and Co., of High Holborn, who have obtained Certificates 
for them. 
■- She growers of specimen Pot-plants will be glad to learn that Peat 
earthy carefully selected and divested of sour or crude matter, and packed in casks 
for safe transport, can be had of Mr. Epps, of Lewisham. A sample of this peat, 
which we have had in use, is of excellent quality. 
- ^NDER the name of Primula Couttii, or Abyssinian Primrose, the 
Messrs. Veitch have recently exhibited at one of the meetings of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society a handsome Primrose, with tufted root, irregularly dentate 
oblong-lanceolate leaves 8 in. to 10 in. long, and covered with white mealy powder, especially 
on the lower surface. The flower-scape rises 18 in. in height, and bears two or three whorls of a 
dozen or more flowers, the whorls provided with leafy bracts, the lower ones being the largest, 
and the flowers yellow, salver-shaped, with a tube nearly 2 in. long, and a limb divided into 
five roundish notched lobes. This plant proves to bo the Primula simensis of Hochstettor, a 
variety of the old P. verticillata, and will therefore bear the name of P. verticillata simensis^ 
It is a very nice addition to our garden flowers. 
