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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
dantly, yet, nevertheless, very few cones have grown to their natural size, 
which is less than that of the cones of Cryptomeria japonica, and about the 
same shape and colour. The seeds, which are numerous and have small 
wings, ripen in October. Both female cones and male catkins are, when 
they first show, of a globular shape, and small size. They appear on the 
ends of the last season’s young shoots during the winter months, and are 
in bloom in January and February. In consequence of this early flowering 
habit, the cones are almost always cut off and destroyed on the south-east 
side of the trees—that is to say, from the east to the south aspect, on account 
of the sun reaching them on this side before the frost is gone ; hut on the 
opposite side of the tree, namely, from the west to the north aspect, perfect 
cones and seeds are often to be found. 
Bicton. James Barnes. 
NEW PLANTS. 
We have elsewhere (p. 154), alluded to Sanchezia nobilis variegata as being 
probably the best novelty let out during the present spring, and may, there¬ 
fore, here pass on to notice other acquisitions of merit, among which must 
not be forgotten the Double Crimson Thorn, recently figured by us. Another 
prominent place amongst the novelties of the season must be accorded to 
Amaryllis (Hippeastrum ) pardina (Bot. Mag., t. 5645), one of Messrs. Veitcli 
and Sons’ introductions from Peru, of which we shall publish a coloured 
figure in due course. This Amaryllis is one of the broad-petaled species, 
with a very shallow tube, and the segments spreading out to form a wide 
open flower, showing off its very novel colouring to advantage. The colour 
is a pale straw yellow, spotted all over with small irregular more or less 
confluent blotches of crimson, the markings being exactly analogous to 
those which occur on many varieties of Calceolaria or Tydaea. It is a very 
beautiful plant, and is quite an acquisition amongst stove bulbs. 
Among stove terrestrial Orchids a very pretty species has been published 
under the name of Bletia Sherrattiana (Bot. Mag., t. 5646). It is a native 
of New Grenada, and has vertically flattened pseudobulbs, plicate leaves, 
and racemes of large bright purplish rose flowers, a dozen or more together, 
of delicate texture, with broad petals, and a beautifully marked lip. The 
habit is that of B. verecunda. The lip is large and flatfish, three-lobed, 
with large rounded or reniform side lobes, and a transversely reniform 
terminal lobe, which is deeper-coloured than the rest; the centre is pale- 
coloured, and marked with three parallel golden lamellae or crests, from 
whence purple veins radiate into the side lobes. It is an important addition 
to the ranks of terrestrial Orchids. Another acquisition, just flowered in 
the collections of Mr. Dawson, of Meadow Bank, and Mr. Marshall, of En¬ 
field, is the New Grenada Odontoylossum roseurn, a small-flowered plant, but 
which, having the blossoms wholly of a pretty rose colour, must, when 
established, prove a very ornamental object. 
M. Begel figures in the Gartenflora a desirable looking hardy perennial, 
named Primula, luteola (t.'541), which may be compared to a yellow-flowered 
P. denticulata, the leaves much resembling those of that elegant species, 
and the inflorescence being also similar in character, though the flowers 
are a trifle larger. It was discovered in the Caucasus by Rupreeht, growing 
abundantly in moist situations at a considerable elevation, and was raised 
by him and given to Mr. Buck, of St. Petersburg!!, by whom the specimen 
