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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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proved to Be a large and finely-coloured peacli, and ripened in the second week 
in August. Dr. Hogg, another large and also a finely-flavoured peach, ripened 
about, the same time as the Dagmar. Early Silver, a very large and highly- 
flavoured peach, ripened in the third week in August. Alexandra Nohlesse has 
quite the pale colour of the old Noblesse, as well as its juicy and rich flavour 
it ripens in the end of August. Lord Palmerston is a very large, pale peach, and 
is at this date (September 15) ripe, but the flavour is not first-rate. Princess oj 
Wales is another very large peach, pale in colour, with rosy cheeks next the sun, 
but it will be the end of September before it is ripe. 
The order of ripening of Mr. Eivers’ seedling Neotaeines was as follows ;— 
Lord Napier, a pale coloured Nectarine of good flavour, and ripening in the 
beginning of August. Rivers' New White is better flavoured than the Old 
White, and ripens in the middle of August. Rivers' Orange, a seedling from the 
Pitmaston Orange, is an excellent high-flavoured variety, and ripens in the end 
of August. Stanwick Elrnge has a smack of the Stanwick flavour in it, and 
ripens in the end of August. Victoria, the latest of Mr. Eivers’ seedling 
Nectarines, is very rich and juicy when grown in pots, and ripens from the end 
of August till the middle of September. 
Dr. Hogg Peach has ripened with me on a south wall, and was in season 
in the end of August; it is a variety of excellent flavour. The Pine-Apple 
Nectarine has likewise ripened on the same wall, and is an excellent new variety, 
the flesh yellow, like Hunt’s Tawny, very rich in flavour, and the colour of the 
fruit nearly black next the sun. —William Tilleey, Welheck. 
ADIANTUM PERUVIANUM. 
[F the known species of Maidenhair Fern, it is, perhaps, not too much 
to say of this, that it is the noblest of them all. It is a fern which at 
once arrests attention, not less for its size than for the elegance of its 
large, compound drooping fronds, which is well shown in the accompanying 
illustration copied from the Gardeners' Chronicle. It is a Peruvian plant, and 
was described many years since by Dr. Klotzsch, who mentions both itsA’^^^^^^ 
ramosa and its pinnidis magnis. Latterly we have met with it in the collection 
