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but generally coming pyriform. When ripe, it is of a bright yellow, striped with 
orange, and occasionally having streaks of scarlet. It is, therefore, highly orna¬ 
mental, and it is said to be of good flavour. The colouring indicates that its 
parentage may, in part at least, be referred to Queen Ann’s Pocket Melon. Mr. 
Ingram, of Alnwick Gardens, speaks of it as a fine-looking Melon, about 3 lb. in 
weight, and an excellent cropper.—T. M. 
GAKDEN GOSSIP. 
[MONGST the Special Exhibitions of the ensuing year, Messrs. George 
Jackman and Son will make a grand display of the Spring-flowering 
Clematis in the corridor attached to the Conservatory of the Royal 
Botanic Society, Regent’s Park ; the exhibition is to continue open from 
May 1 to May 24.—Mr. Wm. Paul’s great show of Roses in pots, Pictorial Trees, Pelargoniums, 
&c., will also bo held in the Royal Botanic Society’s Gardens from May 3 to May 10, inclusive ; 
and Mr. Paul’s Spring Show will take place at South Kensington, and will extend from 
March 27 to April 3.-Mr. W. Bull’s six Silver Cups for New Plants of his own introduction 
are offered for competition at the June Show (2nd) of the Royal Horticultural Society at 
South Kensington.-The Carter Cup, and other prizes originally offered by Messrs. Carter 
and Co., for competition at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Provincial Show, will now, by 
permission of the Council, be competed for at South Konsington on July 7.-Messrs. 
Yeitcli and Son’s Fruit Prizes for 1875 are also to be competed for at South Kensington on 
July 21.-Messrs. Sutton and Sons and Messrs. Hurst and Sons also offer various prizes, at 
diffei’ent dates, for vegetables chiefly.-The Pelargonium Society, as already announced, 
offer special prizes for Pelargoniums at the Zonal Pelargonium Show at South Kensington on 
July 21.-Finally, the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society will hold a Special Fruit 
Shoiv in Edinburgh on September 15, 1G.-The groat Country Shows aro fixed as follows: 
—Manchester, May 14 to 21; Glasgow and West of Scotland, June 18 ; Royal Horticultural 
Society of Ireland, Juno 24. 
- Another batch of Mr. 
Laxtorcs Peas is this season being 
sent out to be submitted to the or¬ 
deal of general cultivation. Their high 
quality has been sufficiently attested under 
experimental treatment, but the exact 
niche they will each fill in the estimation 
of gardeners generally, has yet to be de¬ 
cided by the more extended trials they will 
get now that they aro in the hands of the 
public. Supplanter, of which a figure is 
annexed, a cross between Yeitch’s Perfec¬ 
tion and Little Gem, is a very promising 
sort, being both handsome and prolific. Tho 
others now sent out aro Unique, Dr. Hogg, 
and Connoisseur. 
- &he Winter-flowering Bou~ 
vardias are especially valuable as 
pot-plants for decorative purposes, 
and also for bouquet-making. At Ascot, Mr- 
Standish grows them in very large num¬ 
bers. Two houses, 80 ft. long, are filled with 
thorn. In the one house the free-flowering 
‘B. Vreelandii, B. jasminiflora, and B. Hum- 
holdtii corymbiflora are grown. Taking it 
altogether, this last is no doubt the finest 
variety in cultivation ; it is an excellent grower, deliciously scented, and a continuous bloomer; 
IH.-s 
Supplanter Pea. 
